58 REPORT OF THE No. 3 



Appendix No. 20 

 Survey of Township 9 Z, District of Sudbury 



Peterboro, Ont., December 7th, 1923. 



Sir, — I beg to report that, agreeable to your instructions dated August 

 30th, 1923, I have completed the survey of the line between the east and west 

 halves of township 9 Z in the district of Sudbury and beg to submit herewith 

 plan — timber plan, field notes and accounts, all of which I trust will be found 

 satisfactory to your department. 



I commenced the survey at an iron post planted by myself earlier in the 

 season to mark the three-mile point on the north boundary of the township 9 Z 

 and from this point I ran due south astronomically six miles, three chains, and 

 seventy-six links where I intersected the north boundary of the township 8 Z, 

 surveyed by Ontario Land Surveyor James Dobie in 1913. As I had taken 

 an observation on Polaris for azimuth on June 27th last at a point just eleven 

 chains and sixty-three links east of my present starting point — particulars of 

 which I have given in the accompanying field notes. I did not think it necessary 

 to observe again at the exact starting point. The country south, for the first 

 thirty-three chains and twenty-five links, is rocky and was burnt over in the 

 year 1921 and there is now on the ground standing and fallen dead spruce — 

 Banksian pine, white birch and poplar with small poplar springing up. At 

 the above-named point we reach the green timber consisting of spruce from 

 ten to twenty inches in diameter, white and yellow birch and Banksian pine 

 up to sixteen inches in diameter, and a fair quantity of white pine running from 

 ten to thirty inches in diameter, the above size and class of timber, with the 

 exceptions of very small patches of swamp and brule, continues to the end of the 

 line. The country is of a very rolling rocky character and is absolutely devoid 

 of agricultural land, but to my idea contains much valuable white pine and 

 other classes of timber. We had snow and a very hard frost on the 13th of 

 September, the weather continuing cold and cloudy for the balance of the 

 work, so that I was unable to get another observation. I am glad to report, 

 however, that according to my own chainage on the north boundary of town- 

 ship 9 Z, and that of Mr. Dobie's on the north boundary of the township 8 Z, 

 I have succeeded in practically dividing the township into east and west halves. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



J. W. Fitzgerald, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 



To the Honourable Minister of Lands and Forests, 

 Toronto, Ontario. 



