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1126. This dam is 3.99 chains below railway bridge. The dam sill of lower 

 two sluice gates is at Elevation 1117. From this point to Jean Falls, four miles 

 down stream, the current is moderate and lake-like, with easy curves. Below 

 Jean Falls the river for a distance of about 5 miles due south as the crow flies 

 is very crooked with a fair depth of fast water, traversing through banks of sand 

 and gravel. From here the river turns sharply west and has several lake-like 

 expansions of fairly quiet water for about four miles to the head of a rapid 

 where there is a fall of 21 feet in a distance of 30 chains. From the foot of these 

 rapids, a distance of 30 chains, is the head of another rapid 20 chains in length 

 with a fall of 10 feet. There apparently is no site suitable for a dam at these 

 two rapids. Below these two rapids the river turns and runs nearly south to 

 the south westerly angle of Tp. 28, R. 27. and in this distance there is a drop of 

 about 26 feet. From this point the river runs east, south and west and crosses 

 the west limit of Tp. 29, R. 26 near the 2 mile post and flows generally south 

 to the head of Cedar Falls, which has a drop of 19 feet. The flow in this section 

 of the river is moderate with usually high banks of gravel and sand. From 

 the foot of Cedar Falls, the river flows in a general south westerly direction and 

 crosses the north limit of Tp. 29, R. 25 near the 31 mile post, and continues 

 2 miles to the Algoma Central and Hudson's Bay Railway bridge, of the Magpie 

 Mine Branch. In this stretch the river is unusually wide in places with easy 

 curves and current. From this point the river runs south westerly and south 

 easterly for a distance of about 5 miles with very little fall to the north limit of 

 Tp. 29, R. 24. About a half a mile below this is the commencement of a series of 

 rapids, continuing down with a total fall of 90 feet in a distance of one and a half 

 miles previous to the construction of Steep Hill Falls dam. A dam of the Am- 

 bursen type has been constructed at this point with crest at Ele. 958. The 

 development consists of steel penstock line with surge tank and connections to 

 two turbines developing about 1300 horse power each. It is possible to get 

 increased power at Steep Hill Falls by raising the crest of the dam. Below the 

 power house the river forms a pool at the outlet of which is the metering section 

 of the Dept. of the Interior. From below Steep Hill Falls the river flows south 

 and west for about four miles to the west limit of Tp. 29, R. 24 and westerly for 

 a mile and a half and southerly for a mile and a half to the south limit of Tp. 30, 

 R. 24. Thence southerly for about a mile and a half to the Magpie River bridge 

 of the Michipicoten Division, Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway. Water 

 level here is Ele. 847. In this section of the river the banks are sand and gravel 

 and are high, with occasional rock outcrops. From the foot of Steep Hill Falls to 

 the railway bridge crossing the fall is 113 feet, well distributed throughout the 

 length. There does not appear to be a good dam site in this part of the river. 

 Below the bridge the river is winding between cut banks of sand and gravel of 

 about 20 feet high, for a distance of about four and a half miles to the head of 

 Magpie Falls and Canyon (Ele. 803). At this point there occurs a fall of about 67 

 feet in four chains, and below this the banks of the river are narrow and high and 

 termed canyon for a distance of 15 chains with a further drop in this distance of 

 about 6 feet. Ten chains below the canyon is the foot of a rapid (Ele. 730). 

 Thirty chains below this point and including a fall of 3 feet is the head of a rapid 

 20 chains in length with a fall of 5 feet. About 50 chains down stream from this 

 point is the head of "3rd Falls" (Ele. 720) with a drop of 49 feet. Ten chains 

 below 3rd Falls is "2nd Falls" with a height of 38 feet. Ten chains below this 

 again is "1st Falls" or Mission Falls with a drop of 29 feet; the foot of this falls 

 is about Lake Superior water level. Twenty chains below foot of 1st Falls the 

 river joins the Michipicoten River at a mile above its mouth. 



