68 REPORT OF THE No. 3 



"Crow Lake was the first lake surveyed, and from here I carried my traverse 

 to Bob's Lake, and thence to White Lake. From White Lake I traversed through 

 Barrett's Pond into Potspoon Lake, and thence through Thirty Island Lake into 

 Thirteen Island Lake and into Desert Lake. From here I traversed to Sand 

 Lake and into the southern portion of Canoe Lake. From here I traversed 

 through Eel Lake into Mud Lake and then into Buck Lake. From Buck Lake 

 I traversed through Little Salmon Lake and into Clear Little Lake, into Black 

 Lake and thence into Big Salmon Lake. From here I traversed through 

 La Belle Lake into Big Clear Lake and into Buck Lake. From Buck Lake I 

 traversed across to Hamilton Lake, and from Buck Lake I traversed north 

 through Pollywog Lake to Devil Lake. From Devil Lake I ran side traverses 

 to Crow Lake, Moulton Lake, Christie's Lake, Wolf Lake and Cameron Lake. 

 I then ran a tie traverse to tie onto my survey of Mud Lake. I found that the 

 easiest way to reach Elbow and Pond Lily Lakes was to continue my traverse 

 from Sand Lake. I completed my traverse of Canoe Lake and ran tie traverses 

 to Horseshoe Lake and Garter Lake. I ran a tie traverse to the Ponds west 

 of the village of Fermoy and ran a tie traverse to Long Pond. I then continued 

 my tie traverse through the village of Fermoy to West Rideau Lake. From 

 here I ran side traverses to Judy's Pond and Green Lake. The traverse of 

 West Rideau Lake completed the season's field work. 



"The township of Bedford is an exceptionally rough township. There is 

 by far more water than there is arable land. In the southern portion there 

 are very few farmers. The most thickly settled portions are surrounding the 

 village of Burridge and to the south and east of West Rideau Lake. This 

 latter section is an exceptionally good farming district. The farmers' chief 

 source of revenue is from dairying and simply grow enough crops for feed for 

 their stock. There are several cheese factories in the township. 



"There are several abandoned mica and feldspar mines, the largest of which 

 was the Richardson mine situated between Desert Lake and Thirteen Island 

 Lake. This mine has been exceptionally well equipped and as much as 90 tons 

 of feldspar a day have been shipped from it. There had been also an iron mine 

 on Black Lake north of Thirty Island Lake. This ore was also shipped by this 

 open line. 



"There is very little merchantable timber in the township now. There 

 are a few isolated patches, but these are very small. The old timber has been 

 cut off and there have been several fires through it. Owing to the roughness 

 of the country the young trees are growing very slowly. Tett Brothers, of Bed- 

 ford Mills, have quite a lot of the southern portions held as a limit. 



"The weather this season was exceptionally wet and cold. There were no 

 summer frosts and there was very little real warm weather. There was quite 

 a lot of wind and generally from the southwest. This retarded the work on the 

 larger lakes, as they all lie in the general direction of northeast and southwest. 

 The water was high in the lakes all season on account of the rain, and very little 

 had been drawn oflf the lakes used for storage purposes. 



"There were quite a number of American tourists visiting the lakes during the 

 summer. The majority of these came from Rochester, New York, and Ithica. 

 The large number of lakes in the township and district attracts them, as if the 

 fishing is not so good in one lake they go to another. They invariably come 

 m cars and brought lean-to tents, which they pitched alongside the cars, and 

 rented boats from the farmers, and in some cases engaged the farmers as guides. 

 A few of the farmers took in summer boarders. There were three small cottages 

 owned by the farmers for rent, but these cottages were rented by Canadians 



