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Appendix No. 31 



Extract from report by O.L.S. E. L, Moore of base and meridian lines district 

 of Thunder Bay, 1927. 



The whole area covered by this survey consists of rough land and in no 

 place was any land suitable for agricultural purposes met with. The country, 

 generally, is covered with boulders of all sizes and the soil is of a light sand mixed 

 with gravel. Bed rock outcrops are numerous. While there is little of the 

 country that could be called level, the hills are not generally very high. Lakes, 

 large and small, are very numerous with shores very irregular and rough. The 

 drainage systems of the larger lakes are very complicated, in fact, some of the 

 lakes are so irregular and so full of islands that one would have to be a very 

 good pilot indeed, to navigate them without an accurate map. I do not think 

 I ever saw so few creeks in such a large area. The Savailt River flowing north- 

 east out of Savant Lake was the largest stream met with. Most of the lakes 

 appear to be fairly shallow and like the land, are full of boulders. Portages 

 connecting the lakes are in bad condition and in many places where one would 

 expect to find a portage it does not exist. 



Very little timber of commerical value was seen. Fires have run wild over 

 this area time and again. Many different ages of burn occurs. Most of the 

 country traversed by the base line for, roughly, the first thirteen or fourteen 

 miles was burnt so many years ago that it can hardly be classed as brule, though 

 as yet, the timber is of little value. An area of fairly good timber was crossed 

 on the first meridian, north, between the first and the fifth mile post and on the 

 second meridian north between the eighth and the fourteenth mile posts. 

 The timber consists chiefly of spruce and jack pine with a scattering of poplar 

 and white birch. Cedar is not plentiful in this territory. A few Norway pine 

 were seen near the four-mile point on my base line. In most of the burnt 

 areas much of the dry timber is still standing and much of the ground is strewn 

 with windf alien timber, making travelling across country very bad. 



Wild fruits such as blue berries, raspberries and wild cherries thrive in 

 abundance in the burnt areas. 



Game is not plentiful. A few moose and red deer were seen. Bears and 

 wolves seem to be fairly numerous. There was little indication of small game. 

 Partridge were rarely seen while beaver which once existed in this region are 

 now almost extinct. Pickerel and pike abound in all the lakes that we tried 

 fishing in and I have no doubt that trout exist in many of the large lakes. 



The rock formation in the greater part of this territory is granite but north 

 of the fourteen-mile post on the first meridian, north and north of the twelve- 

 mile post on the second meridian north, a schist porphyry rock occurs. 



The streams being small and the difference of elevation of the lakes so slight 

 the water power is negligible. 



Appendix No. 32 



Extract from E. L. Moore's Field Notes of Northeast Part of the Township of 

 Wicksteed, District of Algoma, 1926. 



Concessions 3 and 4 and approximately the first ten lots in concessions 5, 6, 

 7, and 8, comprise an area of fairly good land. This area is not broken badly 

 by rocks and few boulders appear. It is fairly level and the soil is a mixture 

 of sand and clay which is inclined to be light in some places. The balance 

 of this part of the township is too badly broken by rock ridges and strewn with 



