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Appendix No. 30. 

 Survey of Part of the Township of Carew, District of Sudbury. 



Peterborough, Ont., March 22nd, 1916. 



Sir, — I have the honour to submit herewith the field notes and plans of the 

 survey of part of the township of Carew, in the district of Sudbury, performed by 

 me under instructions from your Department dated October, 23rd, 1915. 



Commencing at the south-west angle of this township I retraced O.L.S. 

 Stewart's Base Line a distance of two miles east making lots 12, 11, 10 and 9 forty 

 chains each in width, and from the points thus established I ran the side lines 

 between lots 10 and 11 and 8 and 9 due north astronomically to the north limit 

 of concession IV, the lines for the fronts of concessions II, III, IV and V were run 

 due east astronomically from points already fixed by me on O.L.S. Stewart's 

 Meridian. 



That portion of the township surveyed by me comprises an area of 5,101.79 

 acres and may be described as gently rolling or undulating in character. It has 

 been swept over many times by fire so that with the exception of that in the 

 swamps little of the original timber now remains, the second or present growth 

 being made up, for the most part, of small poplar, birch, alder and willow and some 

 jack pine now generally known as brule. I would consider fully sixty per cent, 

 of that portion of the township subdivided by me very fair farming land, being a 

 clay or sandy loam from eight to twelve inches in depth, fairly free from stone and 

 resting on a gravel sub-soil. This land may now be very easily cleared and I feel 

 quite sure that if its location and accessibility were generally known it would be 

 very quickly taken up and settled upon. 



The swamps, which make up probably fifteen to twenty per cent, of the total 

 land area, present the usual characteristics, in some places soft and peaty, at others 

 of a firmer consistency, especially where found resting on a clay or gravel sub-soil. 

 There are, of course, as is common to nearly all this section of Northern Ontario, low 

 rocky bluffs and ridges, but the proportion of good arable land in this immediate 

 locality I believe to be far above the average found in this section of Ontario. 



Considering the adaptability and accessibility of this district for settlement I 

 would respectfully suggest to your Department the advisability of extending this 

 survey and opening up that part of the country for settlement as soon as possible. 



A round iron post one and one-quarter inches in diameter and three feet long 

 furnished to me by your Department, is planted at the intersection of side line 

 between lots 8 and 9 and the line in front of concession V, this post is marked 

 " Con. V " on the north side, " Con. IV " on the south side, " Lot IX " on the 

 west side and " Lot VIII " on the east side. It has also the name " Carew " 

 marked on the south-west side. At all other intersections of side lines and con- 

 cession lines surveyed by me are planted solid iron posts seven-eighths inches square 

 and two feet six inches long. These posts are planted at the exact points where 

 the various concession and side road lines intersect, they are driven within eight 

 inches of the surface of the ground and have the numbers of the lots and conces- 

 sions marked with a cold chisel on the respective sides thereof. 



The Canadian Pacific Railway's Transcontinental line crosses the first, second 

 and third concessions, through lots 9, 10, 11 and 12. In this division it is a 

 double track system and neither time nor money seems to have been spared in 

 making the roadbed as nearly perfect as possible. 



