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Soil 



While this area is generally looked upon as a mining section, there are some 

 areas which could be considered good agricultural land, particularly the area 

 east of Red Lake. There is considerable rock north and south from Red Lake, 

 but with small areas of good soil between the rock sections, just as is true in 

 Porcupine and some of the other gold-mining sections which, when abandoned 

 as mining sections, will provide fair agricultural areas. 



Watercourses 



There are innumerable lakes with numerous small and large streams, many 

 of which can be navigated by gasoline boats, and which, besides providing a 

 convenient means of transportation, will make it easier taking out the timber, 

 and later, draining the soil. 



Rock Formation 



I shall not attempt to submit anything on this, as your geological sur- 

 veyors were busy getting this data. 



Animal Life 



In the Red Lake section and on the water route to the steel, a considerable 

 number of red deer were seen. Moose were apparently more plentiful in the 

 vicinity of Moose Lake and Gull Rock Lake than elsewhere in that locality. 

 Bears were in evidence though we did not see any. 



Fish are plentiful, particularly pickerel and pike. Lake trout are plentiful 

 in Red Lake. The Indians told me they get them up to forty pounds. 



Appendix No. 25 



Extract from report by Ontario Land Surveyor D. J. Gillon, dated 1926, of east 

 boundary, Quetico Park, district of Rainy River. 



Acting under instructions, dated May 7th, 1926, to retrace and report the 

 southerly part of the boundary line between the districts of Rainy River and 

 Thunder Bay, which forms the east boundary of Quetico Park, the survey was 

 commenced on May 21st, when the party left Fort Frances and camped near 

 Quetico Station by Windigoostigwan Lake, from the north shore of which lake 

 the work was begun. 



Traces of the old line were found on the south shore of Windigoostigwan 

 Lake, and on projecting the line north, the original stone mound and bearing 

 tree were found on the north shore of the lake. The line once established, there 

 was no further difficulty in retracing it. In the entire thirty-six miles only two 

 posts were missing, the 27th at 27M-32.00 c. above mentioned, where the iron 

 post could not be found, and the 28th, where there was no trace of the original 

 post. 



The original iron post at the south end of Sewell's line on Saganaga Lake is 

 not now in a cairn of stones as described in the original notes, but is set in a hole 

 drilled in the rock. 



