62 REPORT OF THE No. 3 



Two Miles West of Laval Township 



"In this part the land is rolHng with flats of clay and sandy loam, and low- 

 land with a clay bottom. The remainder is very rocky and would be useless. 



Echo Township 



"This township is somewhat better; the percentage of agricultural land 

 being about seventy-five per cent., it consisting of white clay and clay loam 

 and a small portion in the southwest corner all rock. In the southeast the land 

 is rolling and broken. In the northwest there is muskeg and a small portion of 

 it is sandy, the remainder is fairly good with some rock scattered over it. 



Two Miles West of Echo Township 



"There is sixty- five per cent, of agricultural land and the southeast corner 

 is very rocky, with some wet muskeg. Philcut Lake and west is good clay 

 loam, with some small patches of rock. About one-third of the agricultural land 

 is covered with twelve-inch black muck with a clay bottom. The extreme 

 north is sand and gravel, the rest being rock. 



Lomond Township 



"There is fifty per cent, of the land in this township fit for agriculture. 

 It is situated in the southeast corner and consists of white clay and clay loam, 

 with small flats of low land, with a surface of black earth 10 inches deep with 

 a clay bottom. On the east side of the north line some small flats broken with 

 rock and sand. (There is some good land north of Vermilion Lake broken with 

 rock.) 



Two Miles West of Lomond Township 



"About thirty per cent, of the land is arable, but is badly scattered and 

 broken with rock and would be useless for farming. The arable land consists 

 of small flats of white clay and clay loam ; the remaining part of the township 

 is very rocky. 



Vermilion Township 



"South of Little Vermilion Lake there is about seventy per cent, of the 

 land fit for agriculture. The land is clay loam, with some low land and clay 

 bottom ; the remainder is rocky, with a small quantity of muskeg with a sandy 

 bottom. North of Little Vermilion Lake the land is very rocky, there being 

 not more than twenty-five per cent, of it fit for agricultural purposes. The 

 flats northwest of Close Lake are fairly good. The land is mostly clay loam 

 and the rest is very rocky. 



Two Miles West of Vermilion Township 



"The land two miles south of Little Vermilion is fairly good, there being 

 about seventy-five per cent, of it agricultural. This is composed of rolling laCTid, 

 white clay and clay loam, some low land with clay bottom. The remainder ot 

 the territory is rock and swamp. 



