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And whereas the prices offered by said Company were the highest received 

 for the territory covered by said tender, and the Company has agreed to pay 

 the prices hereinafter mentioned, which said prices are the highest offered 

 pursuance to such advertisement by any tenderer for pulpwood and timber in 

 the District of Thunder Bay: 



And whereas with its tender aforesaid the Company did deposit with the 

 Minister its marked cheque payable to the Honourable the Treasurer of the 

 Province of Ontario, for the sum of Fifty Thousand dollars ($50,000). 



And whereas it will be of great advantage to the Province of Ontario and 

 aid materially in the advancement, development and settlement of the district 

 in which the Company's plant is located to have the plant of the Company enlarged 

 in manner aforesaid; 



And whereas the said Company has no assured supply of wood for its present 

 plant or for the proposed enlargements thereof; 



And whereas in view of the matters above recited the Minister has deemed 

 it wise and in the public interest to grant to the said Company the right to cut 

 pulpwood as herein provided and has caused this agreement to be prepared so 

 as to secure the erection by the Company of the said enlarged plant and at the 

 same time to assure to the Company a supply of pulpwood sufficient to operate 

 its enlarged plant to its full capacity for a period of twenty-one years from 

 the date hereof or any extension or extensions hereof as are hereinafter 

 provided for ; 



Now this agreement witnesseth that the Minister with the approval of the 

 Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council, and subject to all the terms and conditions 

 hereof, doth hereby grant to the Company for a period of twenty-one years from 

 the date hereof, the right to cut and remove in and upon such parts of the following 

 territory, situate lying and being on the north side of Lake Nipigon, in the Dis- 

 trict of Thunder Bay, and Province of Ontario, as may from time to time be 

 designated by the Minister, that is to say: 



Commencing at a point in the north limit of the Canadian National Railway 

 right-of-way and station grounds (Canadian Northern Ontario line) being distant 

 east astronomically 12 miles from the east limit of the Nipigon Forest Reserve; 

 said point being in the west limit of Long Lake Pulp and Timber Limit; thence 

 north astronomically 34 miles more or less to the south limit of the Canadian 

 National Railway right-of-way (Transcontinental line); thence westerly along 

 the southerly limit of said right-of-way and station grounds to Kenna Creek 

 east of Wagaming Station; thence southeasterly following said Creek to the 

 shore of Lake Nipigon ; thence south easterly in a general direction but following 

 all the windings and bays along the shore of Lake Nipigon to a point due west 

 from the southwesterly angle of the station grounds at Jack Pine; thence east 

 astronomically 12 miles more or less to the southwesterly angle of the station 

 grounds at Jack Pine; thence northerly to the northwesterly angle of said 

 station grounds; thence northeasterly following the northerly limit of the Cana- 

 dian National Railway right-of-way and station grounds to the point of com- 

 mencement; sufficient pulpwood to enable the Company to operate its enlarged 

 plant continuously to its full capacity; and if at any time during said period 

 of twenty-one years or any extension or extensions thereof as are hereinafter 

 provided for, it should appear that for'any reasons whatever there is not sufficient 

 pulpwood timber on the said territory to supply the Company with sufficient 

 pulpwood to enable it to operate its enlarged plant continuously to its full 

 capacity, the Minister will grant to the Company the right to cut pulpwood timber 



