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A large portion, probably 40 per cent, of the eastern portion of the lands 

 traversed by the survey, i.e., the Townships of Mons, Radisson, Usnac and Opaza- 

 tika and the eastern part of the Townships of Champlain, Ericson, Cromlech and 

 Abbott has been burned over within the last fifteen or twenty years and is covered 

 with a very thick growth of small poplar and birch or spruce and jack pine and 

 alder brush. With regard to the timber the balance of the land may be divided 

 into two classes, i.e., the high land and the low land. The former being generally 

 heavily timbered with white spruce, ranging from 5 in. to 24 in., birch, 5 in. to 

 16 in., and balsam, 2 in. to 16 in., with an occasional ridge of jack pine, chiefly 

 with black spruce 4 in. to 14 in., and in some places cedar 5 in. to 20' in. 



The lines dividing the Townships of Ericson, Champlain, Mons and Radisson 

 indicate mostly sandy land with some areas of good clay land and occasionally 

 a rock ridge. Generally speaking, the townships lying to the north of these 

 are of good clay land, but slightly broken with rock ridges and swamps. Most 

 of the swamps, however, could be drained and are of very fertile soil having from 

 18 in. to 30 in. of moss and black muck with a clay subsoil. Judging by the 

 numerous varieties of wild fruits which grow abundantly in this country, it ivS 

 very suitable for agricultural purposes. 



No economic minerals were met with. The country rock is generally of a 

 coarse-grained granite of the Laurentian Series, containing numerous veins of 

 quartz and dykes of trap. 



There are no water powers of any importance in the territory embraced bv 

 this survey, though the Missinaibi River throughout, has a very considerable fall. 



Accompanying this report are the usual return of field notes, etc., together 

 with mounted plan and timber plan. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



We have the honour to be. Sir, 



Your obedient servants, 



(Sgd.) MCx4usLAN & Anderson, 



Per H. M; Anderson. 



The Honourable, the Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto, Ontario. 



Appendix No. 22.. 

 Survey of Certain Township Outlines in the District or Timiskaming. 



Pembroke, December 12th, 1919. 



SiR^ — I have the honour to submit the following report on the survey of 

 certain township outlines in the District of Timiskaming made by me under 

 instructions from your Department, dated April 15th, 1919. 



On July 2nd, I left Pembroke with my party and proceeded via C. N. Railway 

 and T. & N. 0. Railway to Cochrane, thence via C. N. Railway to Low Bush 

 Station where I arrived on the 5th about eleven o'clock and proceeded up Low 



