REPORT OF THE No. 3 



lishing experimental farms at strategic points and making substantial grants for 

 education. Encouragement is given the settlers in the disposition of their 

 pulpwood, by the Crown urging the large pulp and paper manufacturers to buy 

 their wood at equitable prices. 



In the various districts wherein farm lands are opened for settlement at 

 50 cents an acre subject to the performance of certain duties, 810 individuals, 

 less than the previous year by 400, purchased lots, of which 65 per cent, went 

 to the Cochrane District in the Clay Belt along the Transcontinental, 12 

 per cent, to the Thunder Bay section, over 5 per cent, to Nipissing and the 

 balance to the various other districts. Free grant locations were made to some 

 535 persons, nearly 200 less than the year 1924, the largest percentage, as might 

 be expected, going to the northern and northwest part of the Province, including 

 Rainy River and Kenora Districts. 



While a noticeable reduction is observed in the numbers acquiring land 

 throughout 1925 from 1924, it must be recalled that the last mentioned year 

 was the best since the war and, pending some important movement of immigrant 

 population of the hardy pioneer type, it can scarcely be expected that greater 

 demands will be made for colonizing areas. Complete tables in detail showing 

 the disposition of land for settlement purposes will be found in appendices 

 Nos. 10 and 11. 



Clergy, Common, and Grammar School Lands 



The gradual elimination of this class of land by cleaning up old titles limits 

 the transactions and reduces the revenue therefrom to a very small item, some 

 $2,315.56. 



University Lands 



Under this head $1,517.05 was collected as against $1,290.19 for the year 

 1924. 



Sale Lands 



The total acreage sold for farming, townsite, town lots and tourist purposes 

 comprised some 117,488.39 acres. The total amount collected on such sales 

 and former ones was $100,042.73, about $19,000 less than for the previous year. 

 In all, 8,139.15 acres were leased for a variety of purposes and the receipts for 

 all leasehold areas amounted to $119,778.07, or $30,000 in advance of collections 

 for similar purposes during 1924. 



Military Grants 



By an amendment in 1922, to the Veterans' Land Grant Act, Cap. 6, 

 1 Edw. VII, the time for making locations expired and now the holder of a 

 certificate has only the privilege of surrendering it for a cash consideration of 

 $50 or applying it as payment on Crown land at its face value of $80. During 

 the year five certificates were surrendered and eight patents were issued. Under 

 the Act approximately 13,998 certificates were issued and all these have now 

 been absorbed, with the exception of about 1,045 which are still outstanding. 



The above has no reference to the special privilege accorded returned 

 Canadian oversea soldiers of the Great War, who are entitled to acquire, free 

 of charge, a farming location in Northern Ontario, subject, however, to all 

 settlement regulations, which require actual residence, systematic clearing and 



