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regions. Considerable areas were burnt, but fortunately, these cannot be 

 charged as a distinct loss to the Crown, as sales were made of scorched and 

 burnt limits on reasonably fair prices in order that the timber might be cut and 

 removed before becoming uncommercial. Complete statements of the fire 

 ranging operations may be found under its own appendix. 



Lands under License: The area covered by Timber License where the holder 

 pays regulation ground rent and fire charges at the end of the year, 31st October, 

 1923, was $17,768M square miles. 



Pulp Concessions: Area covered by pulp concessions exclusively amounts 

 to 36,938 square miles, on which fire charges at the rate of $3.20 per square 

 mile are payable. 



Summary of Timber Revenue. 



Bonus $931,013 87 



Timber Dues 1,152,068 90 



Ground Rent 97,545 08 



Transfer Fees .- 7,915 15 



Fire Protection 196,888 44 



: ,385,431 44 



Cullers' Examination. 



Examinations for Cullers' Licenses were held in August, at Callander, 

 Thessalon and Kenora, when 26 candidates succeeded in passing, each being 

 thereafter entitled to act as culler under the Act. A list of the successful 

 candidates may be seen in Appendix No. 9, page 35. 



A large percentage of candidates were rejected, due in some measure to 

 the candidates' inability to pass the practical test in the scaling of logs where 

 deductions due to defects are necessary. Numbers coming from pulpwood 

 regions with but little knowledge of and no experience in pine, though skilled 

 in measuring pulpwood, fail in the pine examination. 



As the Department has found difficulty at times in getting qualified scalers 

 for pulpwood without reducing the pine staff, provision will be made by an 

 amendment to the Ontario Cullers' Act to enable a candidate to secure a pulp- 

 wood license. 



Crown Surveys. 



Surveys of Crown lands in the northern part of the Province consisting of 

 base and meridian lines, township boundaries, lake and river traverse, have 

 been carried on in compliance with the several instructions issued. 



Town plot subdivisions of land patented since 1910 have been approved 

 pursuant to R.S.O. 1910, chapter 34, as follows: 



Kirkland Lake Addition. — Part of mining claim T.C. 711, Township of Teck' 

 District of Timiskaming (Wright-Hargreaves subdivision). 



Swastika Addition. — Part mining claim L.4485, 4486 and 8869, Township 

 of Teck, District of Timiskaming (Simpson subdivision). 



Timmins Addition. — Part of south half lot 12, concession 3, Tisdale, District 

 of Cochrane (Bartleman subdivision.) 



Timmins Addition. — Part of north part lot 2, concession 2, Mountjoy, 

 District of Cochrane (Wilson subdivision). 



