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so great as was originally reported, and that this fire does not compare, in point of 

 area burned and timber destroyed, with many of the earlier fires in the Province. 

 This fire is more particularly described in the general report hereto attached. 



The good results obtained from the different farm and garden plots and from 

 the farms in general along • the Grand Trunk Pacific railway and along the 

 Temiskaming & Northern Ontario railway and its branches, has given to the 

 settlers great encouragement this season, and has removed any doubt as to the 

 future of this new district. All that is now lacking are settlers. 



Good progress is still being made in the valley of the Rainy River, where there 

 is still a considerable area of first-class lands waiting settlement. 



The different mining camps now operating in the new districts are giving a 

 ready market for all the grain and vegetables the farmers can produce. 



The demand for new roads and more roads still continues. 



Attached hereto are statements of expenditures for the year ending 31st 

 October, 1916, in the various districts, and a summary of expenditure for the last 

 five years. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



J. F. 'WlIITSON, 



Commissioner. 



Statement of Expenditure Undeb Northern & Northwestern Ontario Development 



Acts, 1912, 1915 and 1916. 



(From 23rd May, 1912 to 31st October, 1916.) 



Expenditure Expenditure 

 to year ending 



District. 31st October, 31st October, 



1915. 1916. 



District of Nipissing, North Bay to Mattawa, and east to 



Petawawa Military Camp, and south of Callander to 



South River, and west from North Bay through 



Sturgeon Falls $270,244 73 $53,938 91 



District of Temiskaming, Haileybury, Englehart, Matheson, 



Charlton, Swastika, Elk Lake, Larder Lake 395,871 16 92,116 78 



District of Temiskaming, Cochrane, Porcupine, Iroquois 



Falls, and Transcontinental Railway from Quebec 



boundary west 125 miles to Groundhog 685,426 32 95,442 03 



District of Sudbury, vicinity of the Town, of Sudbury and 



Mining District surrounding 189,906 37 44,827 59 



District of Algoma, vicinity of Hearst, along Transcon- 

 tinental and Algoma Central Railways 84,314 32 18,041 31 



District of Algoma, on Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie 



Trunk Road 190,726 36 40,040 15 



District of Thunder Bay, tributary to Port Arthur and 



Fort William 354,475 14 62,338 65 



District of Kenora, vicinity of Kenora and Keewatin and 



Wabigoon 147,802 84 21,277 43 



District of Rainy River, in Rainy River Valley 281,938 38 45,893 78 



Algonquin Provincial Park 14,391 27 



Manitoulin Island 9,269 30 



Experimental Farm Plots 17,110 79 10,125 53 



