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Appendix No. 20. 



Survey of the East Limit and the East 22 Miles of the South Limit of 

 Nepigon Forest Eeserve, District of Thunder Bay, 



Port Arthur, December 21st, 1916. 



Sir, — We beg to report that according to instructions dated May 26th, 1916, 

 we have surveyed the east boundary and that part of the south boundary east of the 

 township of Ledger, of the Nepigon Forest Eeserve. 



From the south-east angle of the township of Ledger, where the iron tube 

 planted by O.L.S. T. B. Speight was found, the south boundary was run east 

 xistronomically, with reference to a meridian through its central point, a distance 

 of twenty-two miles; from this point a meridian Avas run north ninety-eight miles 

 to the north-east angle of the Eeserve. Frequent observations were taken to ensure 

 the correct bearing of the lines. 



Wooden posts were planted at every mile on the lines and iron posts 1^4 iii- 

 in diameter at intervals of six miles, starting from west to east on the south 

 , boundary and from south to north on the east boundary. Posts were numbered 

 from one to twenty-one on the south boundary and from one to ninety-seven on the 

 <?ast boundary. At the end of the 22nd mile on the south boundary and the 98th 

 mile on the east boundary iron posts 1% in. in diameter, marked N'epigon Forest 

 Eeserve, were planted. 



The ends of the 2nd, 4th, 38th, 40tli, 46th and 79th miles on the east boundary 

 coming in bodies of water, the posts were planted on the nearest shore and marked 

 accordingly. 



Mining Claims. 



No mining claim surveys were crossed. Where, from the tracing furnished 

 us, it appeared that we should be in the neighborhood of M C 50 and 57, and M C 

 56 and 58, we were careful to search for these, but no evidence was found of any 

 survey. Stakes were found with no marks on them as shown on pages 61 and 62 

 ■of field notes. 



Soil, 



AVith the exception of the first mile and a half on the south boundary which 

 is clay, the soil passed over was sand and muskeg; on the remainder of the south 

 boundary there is no soil worth mentioning, it being almost entirely rock and small 

 muskegs. Going north on the east boundary after the first five or six miles the 

 rock gradually becomes less prominent and the country in general varies from 

 rolling to flat with an occasional rocky hill. The level country is usually in the 

 form of muskeg or swamp, the only pronounced exception to this being immediately 

 south of the Canadian Northern Eailway where there is an area of level land about 

 three-quarters of a mile across. From about six miles north of the Canadian 

 Northern Eailway to the end of the line the country is roughly about one-hai^ 

 muskeg or swamp, the remainder being low ridges of rock or both. 



