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Appendix No. 21 



Extract from report and field notes of the survey of part of district boundary 

 between Kenora and Rainy River, from south-west corner of Bennett. — 

 D. J. Gillon, O.L.S., 1927. 



Soil and Timber 



There is no land suitable for agriculture in the territory through which these 

 lines run and there is very little timber. Most of the pine has been cut and while 

 there are a few isolated patches of timber which have been left there is now no 

 pine timber in this territory except in the Rainy Lake pulp limit and on Timber 

 Berth G 51 on Pipe Lake, just east of the meridian. 



I have only shown on the timber plan the green timber and the burnt country 

 traversed by the two lines, as practically the whole of the country has been burnt 

 over. The first fire appears to have been about 1888, another fire overran the coun- 

 try in 1894, and since then there have been several fires as in 1911, again in 1918, 

 and most recently in 1924, which reburnt much of the country from Seine River to 

 and north of Mountain Lake. The actual extent of these fires may be realized 

 by an examination of the timber plan, which shows that the base line runs 

 through 45 miles of burnt country, while the meridian line runs through 24 miles 

 of burnt country, while the J. A. Mathiew Co.'s road from Namakan River to 

 La Seine Station runs runs through an entirely burnt country. 



There are, however, many thousand cords of pulpwood unburnt in the 

 region west of the Shevlin Clarke road between Dovetail Lake and the Township 

 of Bennett, also in stretches along Big and Little Turtle rivers. 



Water Powers 



The baseline runs through the head waters of both Big and Little Turtle 

 rivers and also crosses the waters tributary to Otukamamoan Lake. These 

 waters supply about 20 per cent, of the inflow into Rainy Lake and will be 

 available for use for both power and storage. All the Turtle waters flow into 

 Little Turtle Lake, whose outlet is at Sand Island Falls, where considerable 

 power could be developed. The waters of Otukamamoan run into the same bay 

 of Rainy Lake as the Turtle waters and one transmission line could be used for 

 both powers. A table on the plan shows the elevation and average outflow of 

 the main rivers crossed by the base line. The horsepower which could be 

 developed depends on the height of the dams and control works, but it may be 

 noticed that the outflow of Little Turtle Lake at Sand Island Falls is practically 

 the same as that at Sturgeon Falls on the Seine River, so that Big and Little 

 Turtle rivers should be capable of producing at least 20,000 horsepower. 



Geology 



Much of the country traversed by the baseline is covered with glacial drift, 

 sand, gravel and boulders. The country rock is all Laurentian gneiss, except 

 along a short stretch of the shore of Crackshot Lake where some Huronian 

 schists show up. No signs of any valuable minerals were seen during the progress 

 of the survey. 



The north part of the meridian runs over Huronian rocks in which, during 

 1895 and 1896, gold-bearing quartz veins were discovered and mining locations 

 were laid out. Possibly in the near future new discoveries may be made. The 

 line passed close beside a test pit of recent date so that it seems that prospectors 



