54 REPORT OF THE No. 3 



Appendix No. 20 



Extract of report of part of J. R. Gill's survey of 9th base line and meridian lines, 

 district of Patricia, 1926. 



"I beg to submit the following report on the survey of part of the 9th base 

 line and certain meridian lines in the district of Patricia, as well as a traverse 

 of part of the Wenesaga River. This work was performed under instructions 

 from the Department of Lands and Forests dated March 19th, 1926, supple- 

 mented by further instructions dated May 1st, 1926. 



"I left Sudbury on June 8th and proceeded from Hudson Station on the 

 C.N.R. with a party on June 12th. The route taken to get to the work was as 

 follows: By way of Lac Seul to the Pine Ridge Post of the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany; thence down the English River to the Mattawa River; up the Mattawa 

 to Pakwash Lake; through Pakwash and Bruce Lakes up the Trout Lake and 

 Woman Lake Rivers to Bear Lake ; thence through this lake to the most northerly 

 crossing of it by a meridian run by O.L.S. Ross in 1920. The 72-mile post from 

 which the 9th base line commenced was about two and one-half miles north 

 from the lake. 



"After obtaining an observation for azimuth, work was actually commenced 

 from the 72nd mile post on June 21st, and carried out as follows: The 9th 

 base line was run east a distance of twelve miles; from the 12-mile post a meridian 

 line was run north for twelve miles. At the completion of this line no evidence 

 was found of the line to be run by O.L.S. Beatty & Beatty. The meridian line 

 was then run south for twelve miles, this point being about one-half mile south 

 from the westerly end of Slate Lake. A line was then run west to a point near the 

 60-mile post on Ross's meridian line. The party now came back and com- 

 pleted the base line to the 24-mile post and ran a meridian line twelve miles 

 north and twelve miles south from this point. The meridian line north was 

 fifteen chains and forty-four links west from the 12-mile post on a corresponding 

 line run by O.L.S. Beatty & Beatty. 



"Wooden posts were planted at each mile and, where possible, a cairn of stones 

 was built and bearing trees marked. When the mile point occurred in a lake a 

 post was planted on the shore. Iron posts were planted at three-mile intervals 

 in accordance with the instructions. Owing to the nature of the ground many of 

 these took the form of witness posts. 



"On the completion of the line work I proceeded to traverse a portion of the 

 Wenesaga River waters, commencing at a standard rock monument placed by 

 D.L.S. Pierce's party on the portage between Gull Lake and Hailstone Lake 

 and tying into a wooden post planted by the Topographical Surveys Branch on 

 the northerly shore of the Wenesaga River about three miles above Slate Lake 

 in 1925. This traverse survey was also tied into the meridian line run south 

 from the 24-mile post on the base line. 



"The country in this area is for the most part gently rolling. Very few hills 

 of any height were encountered. The ridges generally run northeast and south- 

 west. There are a great number of lakes; the shore lines of these are very 

 irregular. 



"Near the meridian line run by O.L.S. Ross all the few outcroppings encoun- 

 tered were of granite. In the basin of Woman, Clearwater and Washagomis 

 Lakes there were greenstones and some altered sedimentary rocks. As you 

 approach the Wenesaga River along the base line, granite was again in evidence; 



