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Appendix No. 21 



Extract from the field notes of the Survey of Base Line, District of Cochrane, 

 by G. P. Angus, O.L.S., 1930. 



I left Cochrane with party and supplies on May 16th via Temiskaming 

 and Northern Ontario Railway to the Sucker Creek, and up the Sucker Creek 

 to the north boundary of the Township of Blount, and along the north boundary 

 of said township to the north-easterly angle thereof where I commenced line 

 cutting on the 21st of May. Line was run east astronomically on nine mile 

 chords of latitude for sixty-one miles and forty-four chains and sixty-six links 

 to the intersection of the Quebec boundary. From here I moved up the Patten 

 River and along the north boundary of the Township of Adair to the north- 

 easterly angle of the Township of Abbotsford, and ran a line north astron- 

 omically for eight miles and seventy-six chains and fifty-three links to intersect 

 the line previously run at mileage fifty-four plus thirteen chains and seventy- 

 eight links, which completed the season's work. 



Wooden posts, principally spruce of at least six inches square, were planted 

 at each mile with the mileage marked, and either mounded with rocks or standard 

 pits and mounds erected, and at each third mile except at the 9th, 18th, 27th, 

 36th, 45th, and 54th mile, the standard iron post was planted and marked with 

 the mileage and pits and mounds erected. 



Frequent observations were taken and are shown in the field notes. 



General Features 



On the base line at mileage sixteen a range of hills forty to fifty feet high 

 was crossed, and at mileage twenty-two, three gullies about forty feet deep 

 were crossed, and from mile fifty-four to fifty-six the country is hilly, but for 

 the most part the country is rolling, interspersed with spruce flats. 



Soil 



From mile twenty-four to mile twenty-six the land is stony, but the greater 

 part is good clay land and in the spruce flats the clay is covered with a deep 

 layer of moss. 



Timber 



From mileage twenty-three and a half to mileage thirty-nifte and a half 

 the country has been burnt over some years ago and is now grown up with spruce, 

 jack pine and poplar up to three inches in diameter, except for the lower lands 

 which are green spruce flats of commercial timber. The balance of the base 

 line, fire has not touched, and is covered with spruce, balsam, poplar, birch and 

 jack pine and is commercial timber. 



The country along the line between the townships of Clive and Singer is 

 green spruce with scattered poplar and jack pine interspersed with open muskeg. 



Rock 



On the base line rock outcroppings were encountered at one-half mile 

 from starting and at mileage nine, sixteen, twenty-five and a half and from 

 fifty-four to fifty-six, but no economic minerals were identified. 



