1922-23 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS 97 



houses were re-chinked and plastered and other small repairs made. Nine new 

 stoves were placed in rangers' houses, required to replace old stoves that were 

 worn or rusted out, and several cooking outfits were replaced. New blankets 

 were distributed to any of the rangers on request. Portages and roads were 

 much improved. Several new portages were cut out. The credit for the roads 

 and trails is due to the Forestry Branch, assisted when possible by members of 

 our staff. Telephones were placed in the Eagle Lake and Sligo Ranger Houses 

 and attached to the Forestry Branch lines. The telephone situation is very 

 much improved, returns to the Department from this source being $329.88. 



Game 



Game has increased in the Park, especially among the fur-bearing animals, 

 such as beaver, otter, mink, marten and fisher. Deer are not so plentiful, disease 

 among them during the winter of 1922-23 and the increased number of wolves, 

 no doubt, accounting for same. 



There was the usual amount of illegal trapping in the Park; our rangers 

 succeeding in bringing in six of the offenders. Fines were imposed amounting 

 to $357.45, which was forwarded to the Provincial Treasurer through the Depart- 

 ment. Nine different trappers' outfits were captured or destroyed. 109 traps 

 were brought in to headquarters and possibly as many more destroyed. Nine 

 rifles were also captured, all in poor condition, and a quantity of raw furs was 

 taken and forwarded to the Department for disposal. 



Fish 



We placed 1,000,000 salmon trout fry in fourteen different lakes along the 

 railroad in the southwest part of the Park. 



Fishing was very good throughout the Park waters, many sportsmen 

 going to the northern parts of the Park reporting excellent results. The revenue 

 from the sale of Fishing Licenses amounted to $2,579.00 and $101.00 was collected 

 from the sale of Guides' Licenses. 



Lots and Leases 



A few applications were received for parcels of land upon which to build 

 summer cottages. Only two cottages were built. A number of the summer 

 residents built small additions to their cottages and a great many of the cottages 

 were painted. The revenue collected from rents amounted to $869.59, which 

 was forwarded to the Department. 



Other revenue collected was the sale of firewood amounting to $14.25. 

 Summer residents were given the down timber and floatwood in the lakes, free 

 of charge, for firewood, on condition that all debris should be cleaned up. This 

 has resulted in considerable cleaning up along the lake shores and the removal 

 of much danger to canoeists from floating driftwood. Rental of the Park team 

 brought in $195.50. $72.00 was also paid direct to the Department by the 

 Canadian National Railway for work done by the Park team while the pumping 

 station was being built. 



The number of fires throughout the Park was less than usual. Only two 

 fires amounted to anything. One in Hunter Township started by lightning, 

 and the burning in an old slash left by the big fire of 1914 required a lot of hard 

 work to keep it from running into the green timber. The cleaning up of this 

 slash wood is a real benefit, having removed a dangerous menace to life and 

 further destruction of forest in the Park. In the township of Boyle a bad fire 



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