1928 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS 69 



is nearly all burnt over, the only timber left being some comparatively small 

 areas of spruce, jack pine, birch and poplar, etc., which have escaped the fires. 



Smooth Rock Lake is a large, irregular sheet of water with many deep bays. 

 There are a great number of islands, one very large one being about twelve miles 

 long. The country around the southern part of Smooth Rock Lake is generally 

 high and rocky and has been largely burnt over. There are many areas of 

 second-growth timber of varying ages, and much good spruce and jack pine 

 scattered here and there throughout. 



Wabakimi River enters the west side of Smooth Rock Lake well up towards 

 the northern end. This river is about three miles long and has several small 

 lake expansiors, separated by river stretches with either rapids or fast current. 

 The total drop between Wabakimi Lake and Smooth Rock Lake is thirty-two feet. 

 A short distance up from Smooth Rock Lake there is a fall of about seven feet 

 with steep rocks on either side. It appears as though it might be possible to 

 concentrate most if not all of the drop from Wabakimi Lake at this point. It 

 would require considerable contouring to determine definitely if this is possible, 

 but it is quite evident that a water power of considerable magnitude can be 

 developed here. 



Inasmuch as the survey of the Ogoki River in 1925 indicated that there is 

 no place below Wabakimi Lake where the falls at the numerous rapids can be 

 concentrated, it is suggested that a possible solution of the problem of power 

 development on this portion of the Ogoki River would be to construct a dam at 

 the point where the Ogoki River runs out of Wabakimi Lake and divert the flow 

 into Smooth Rock Lake via Wabakimi River, and concentrate as much of the 

 head as it is possible to develop at the falls near the mouth of Wabakimi River. 



A water power reserve of 48.75 acres was laid out at this point, the boun- 

 daries being posted near the three shores of the river but the lines were not cut 

 out on the ground. 



The main outlet of Smooth Rock Lake is Berg's River, which flows out of 

 Outlet Bay in a northerly direction to join the Ogoki River. This river was 

 traversed to the bottom of the first rapids above Ogoki River, where a connection 

 was made with the survey of 1925. Where Berg's River leaves Smooth Rock 

 Lake there is a heavy rapids, followed by another one a short distance down 

 stream, the total fall being nearly seventeen feet. These rapids are passed by 

 a portage seventeen chains long, which leaves Smooth Rock Lake about half a 

 mile west of the outlet. Berg's River is a fine stream with gentle current and 

 only a few short, easy portages. The banks are largely sandy and most of the 

 timber is second-growth jack pine. 



A water power reserve of 236.0 acres was laid out at the outlet of Smooth 

 Rock Lake. There is another fall of about eight feet a couple of miles down 

 stream, and while the banks are too low to permit of the whole fall being concen- 

 trated here, a careful survey might disclose some means whereby this fall could 

 be added to the one at the outlet of Smooth Rock Lake. 



The traverse was carried up Caribou Bay to the point where Caribou River 

 enters. Caribou Bay is a long, narrow bay nearly ten miles long. For several 

 miles from where it branches ofif from Smooth Rock Lake, Caribou Bay is shallow, 

 with low, grassy shores, but the country generally becomes higher as one proceeds 

 east, and where the meridian line run by O.L.S. Benner in 1920 crosses, the 

 country is rocky and rough. Great areas of burnt country occur, with consider- 

 able areas of spruce, jack pine, poplar, birch, etc., that have escaped the fire. 



Lone Breast Bay runs for about ten miles to the northeast from the main 

 body of Smooth Rock Lake, and from its extremity a small stream runs out and 



