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proceeded from Foleyet to Nakina and employed two men, and from there going 

 to Ombabika, to employ a man and second dog-team. From Ombabika I went 

 to Willet, my party following on the next train. 



From Meeting Point to Pascopee the distances were all chained. Work 

 was carried on every day, including all Sundays. During the very cold weather, 

 considerable difficulty was experienced in obtaining correct bearings, owing to 

 the instrument becoming so stiff that it was hard to rotate it on its axes. 



The last station on the traverse was tied in to the centre of the operator's 

 window at Pascopee Station, the chainage and courses being carried along the 

 centre line of the Canadian National Railway. 



Bearings were taken every day that it was possible to see the star, and in 

 many cases two or three times a day. During the spells of bad weather, bearings 

 were carried ahead from the last observation and the necessary corrections for 

 convergence and the error in the work were made and distributed back through 

 the previous courses. 



The volume of water entering Lake Nipigon from Wabinosh River is small. 

 There are not any water powers along the route traversed between Lake Nipigon 

 and Pascopee. 



Appendix No. 30 



Extract from O.L.S. Beatty & Beatty's report of survey of Seventh Base line 

 district of Thunder Bay, 1927. 



Soil 



There was very little land suitable for agricultural purposes along this 

 line. The only land that might be suitable is in the Mud River valley. This 

 soil is a sandy clay soil and supports a heavy growth of timber and is fairly level. 

 It is about fifteen miles long and varies in width from one-half to three miles. 

 Where the Canadian National Railways cross the river there is more clay than 

 sand in the soil. The remainder of the soil covered by the line this year is sandy 

 soil with boulders. There were very few gravel ridges but numerous outcrops 

 of rock, mostly granite ridges. The country is rolling and very broken. 



Timber 



Several patches of good bush were crossed, but the greater portion of the 

 country has been burned over. There was a bad fire which swept through this 

 section in the spring, about six or seven years ago, and this killed a great deal 

 of the bush. As a result, it has left the country a mass of windfall and standing 

 dead trees, which made it exceptionally hard for cutting the line and keeping 

 camp moved along. The patches of good bush are shown coloured green on 

 our timber plan, the better patches being between the 9th and 15th miles, the 

 20th mile, the 26th to the 29th mile, the 40th mile, the 60th mile, between the 

 76th and 80th mile, the 90th and 91st miles, and between the 101st and 109th 

 miles. This last stretch is in the Mud River valley and is one of the nicest 

 patches of timber that we have seen for some years. There is some very fine 

 spruce, jack pine and poplar from 16-inch to 30-inch in diameter, in this piece. 

 We ran through more heavy bush this year than we have for several years. 

 The stretches between the 76th and 80th miles and the 90th and 91st miles, and 

 between the 101st and 109th miles, are within the Nipigon Forest Reserve. In 



