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Appendix No. 20 



Extract from O.L.S. Lang & Ross' report, subdivision part of township of 

 Wicksteed, Algoma, dated Sault Ste. Marie, September 12th, 1924. 



"The part of this township surveyed by us is in general rolhng land and 

 sandy or sandy clay soil. In the northerly part there are rocky hills ranging to 

 one hundred feet in height. The rock exposures are gneiss and schist. No 

 indications of valuable mineral were observed. 



"The timber in general is second growth spruce, poplar, balsam and jack 

 pine up to eight inches in diameter. There are, however, 200 or 300 acres of 

 heavy mixed growth up to twenty-four inches in diameter. 



"Moose are fairly plentiful, and one caribou was seen." 



Appendix No. 21 



Extract from O.L.S. G. P. Angus' report on west part of township of Thorning, 

 district of Cochrane, dated September 15th, 1924. 



"The country is flats, timbered with spruce up to eight inches diameter, 

 and clay ridges timbered with spruce, popular, birch and balsam up to fifteen 

 inches diameter. 



"The flats are covered with a heavy moss of about one foot in depth, with 

 black muck under of ten or twelve inches, and clay sub-soil, and will make good 

 agricultural land after the present crop of valuable pulp timber is taken off and 

 the land is drained. 



"Some years ago the country was burnt in patches in a great number of 

 places and is now covered with a growth of spruce and poplar of two or three 

 inches in diameter. 



"There are four outcrops of granite rock at the following locations: 



"First — In the railway cut at Mileage 20J/^ on the Timiskaming and 

 Northern Ontario Railway on lot 24, concession 2. 



"Second — On the south boundary of lot 16, concession 1, about four chains 

 west of Chin River. 



"Third — On the easterly limit of lot 25, concession 12, at one half mile 

 south of the north boundary. 



"Fourth — On the side road between lots 18 and 19, concession 12, one- 

 eighth of a mile south of the north boundary." 



