DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS FOR 1930 85 



as this in contact with greenstone and cut at intervals by diabase should not be 

 overlooked. 



The copper zinc of the Potter Doal and Galena farther east occurs in basalt 

 in contact with diabase among high gabbro hills and never impressed the writer, 

 although it may yet be important. 



I did not see anything out of the ordinary in McCool save an outcrop of 

 porphyry on Lot 2, Concessions 2 and 3, and some serpentine north of Fades 

 camp, Lots 10 and 11, Concession 4, neither of which in my opinion are of 

 importance. 



Lumber 



On account of almost entire absence of any green mature timber and no 

 recent burnt areas seen since the young growth started after the fire of 1916, 

 it is difficult to make a proper timber plan. Consequently I have only shown 

 hatched in green the all sand areas on which jack pine occurs in greater or less 

 quantities but which, nevertheless, is ideally suited for the growth of this par- 

 ticular and useful timber. 



I travelled the western portion of McCool and all of Munro pretty 

 thoroughly, but am not sufficiently familiar with the western part of Beatty or 

 the eastern part of McCool to give accurate information re timber. 



Soil 



A large portion of the township of Beatty, as settled, is suitable for farming. 

 The area close to and drained by the various branches of Shallow River both 

 in Beatty and Munro is also good. The remaining portion of Munro except 

 approximately two miles of sand plains along the east side is either rough and 

 rocky or too much of a muskeg nature to be of any immediate agricultural value. 



The sand plains, however, which extend into and form about half of McCool 

 produce tons of blueberries and could quite easily support a canning factory. 



Game and Fish 



The string of springs on either side of the sand plains and the source of 

 some of the tributaries of Shallow River to the west and Ghost River to the 

 east, provide the proper condition for speckled trout of which there are many. 



A few partridge were seen, a few bear, also observed during the strawberry 

 season in Munro as well as a few moose in the same township. Deer, moose 

 and bear tracks were seen in McCool. A few beaver have still outwitted the 

 trapper in Munro Township. 



Appendix 26 



Report of survey of Traverse of Dog Hole, Crow River, Otoskwin River, Lake 

 St. Joseph, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion), by C. R. Kenny, O.L.S,, 

 1929. 



Following your instructions dated April 9th, 1929, to continue the meridian 

 line run north astronomically by O.L.S. Phillips and Benner in 1923, in west 

 longitude 90 degrees and 12 minutes, which point is at the southerly shore of 



