«8 REPORT OF LANDS AND FORESTS FOR 1929 



and there would appear to be some good prospecting ground in this locality, 

 although the heavy overburden which appears to be spread over the whole 

 country will make prospecting difficult. 



Below Petawanga Lake granite and gneiss appear again, and these rocks 

 predominated throughout the rest of the survey excepting near Frenchman's 

 Rapids where another area of schistose rock occurs. 



North of the trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company, and Revillon 

 Freres at Fort Hope on Eabamet Lake, there has been considerable mining 

 activity during the past year and a number of mining claims have been staked. 

 Mining operations of considerable magnitude have been carried on within the 

 past few months. The corner post of one of these mining claims was connected 

 with the survey, as also were the corners of the tracts of land owned and occupied 

 by the Hudson's Bay Company and Revillon Freres at Fort Hope. 



A very little game was seen during the season. An occasional deer and 

 moose was observed but these animals do not appear to be plentiful. Pike, 

 pickerel, whitefish and sturgeon are fairly plentiful in the Albany River and the 

 various lake expansions. At most of the rapids speckled trout of good size were 

 caught. In the rapids on the Opichuan River large speckled trout are very 

 plentiful and large lake trout are said to be plentiful in Kagianagami Lake. 



The magnetic variation in the granite areas varies from about one degree 

 east near where the survey started, to two degrees, fifty minutes west on the 

 Opichuan River. The amount of local attraction is nowhere very steady, and 

 in the schist areas around Miminiska and Petawanga Lakes the local attraction 

 is most pronounced over large areas. The two small booklets supplied by the 

 Topographical Survey at Ottawa for recording local magnetic bearings were 

 filled up with magnetic records and are returned with the other returns for 

 the survey. 



