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follows some of our finest lakes and rivers, namely Grand lake, the Petewawa 

 river, lakes Travers, Francis, Cedar, Oralee, the Couchons, Mink and Kiosh-koqui, 

 crossing the Amable Dufond river at the latter point and bearing north from the 

 Park lines shortly after. This opens up one of the finest sectionsi in America from 

 an angler's point of view. They are building round-houses at Cedar lake in the 

 township of Deacon, and this I presume will be a divisional point. The system of 

 fire-ranging along the line this year was very good. 



We have had the usual large number of visitors from all over Canada and the 

 United States, as well as from other countries. I had a \"ery interesting visit 

 from the Japanese consul, who was much interested in our methods of protection 

 both of game and forest. 



The tourist business has suffered from the war in most sections. Here, how- 

 ever, tlie hotels were well patronized, especially the Grand Trunk Railway camps 

 on Smoke and Big Island lakes. As a health resort the Park has no equal, the 

 boys and. girls who make up the school camps here bearing wonderful testimony to 

 this. Miss F. L. Case, of Rochester, N.Y., who has a camp of forty girls ranging 

 from twelve to sixteen years of age and twenty teachers and help, making a camp 

 of sixty persons, assured me that the average gain in weight of the forty girls 

 was seven pounds in six weeks. We have four boys' camps, one on Source lake, 

 one on Lake of Two Rivers, one on Cache lake and one on Joe lake. These camps 

 are doing a splendid worlc, building up not only healthy bodies but minds as well. 

 The boys spend six weeks in camp, and the marked improvement in them shows 

 conclusively that for the city boy the woods are the proper place for a holiday. 

 The education they receive stays with them all their lives, and is far-reaching in 

 its influence for good. These camps, as do the other visitors, leave a lot of ready 

 money with our merchants. It is hard to estimate just what it really meant to 

 them from a financial standpoint. They also employ a large number of guides to 

 whom they pay a good wage. 



We have a number of permanent campers who have leased points and put up 

 cottages, and have had several fresh applications thisi year, to all of whom leases 

 have been granted. They pay $10.00 for survey of their plot and an annual rental 

 of $7.50 per acre, the maximum acreage being two acres to cottagers and five to 

 schools. The latter pay a yearly rental of $75.00. Every alternate lot is re- 

 served for camp sites for transient visitors. The leases run for twenty-one years, 

 and holders are required to clean up the debri-! on their holdings and keep them 

 in a good sanitary condition. 



As it is only practicable to take out live animals in sections near the railway, 

 I would recommend as soon as the market warrants doing so, taking out a number 

 of beaver pelts annually from inland poin ts. They have become very numerous and 

 have filled up the surrounding country for many townships back from the Park. 

 A good revenue might be had from them without the slightest detriment to the 

 Park. I would recommend taking at least five hundred pelts a year. The pro- 

 ceeds going into the treasury as they do, are a benefit to every ratepayer in the 

 Province. The surplus increase of fur-bearing animals in the Park judiciously 

 taken out would represent several thousand dollars a year, and I think the Pro- 

 vince should avail itself of this revenue just as it does of other resources of the 

 country. 



During the past year we have collected the following sums here, for fishing 

 licenses $1,115.00, rents $365.00, beaver skins $130.00, and live beaver $120.00, 



