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Appendix No. 31. 



Survey of the Outlines of the Pic Eiver Pulpwood and Timber Limit, 



District op Thunder Bay. 



NiPiGON, Ont., August 2ncl, 1919. 



Sir, — I beg to submit the following report on the survey of the outlines of the 

 Pic Eiver Pulp and Timber Limit, surveyed by me under instructions from 

 the Department of Lands, Forests and Mines, dated Toronto, April 15th, 1919. 



Pursuant to instructions, I commenced my survey at the point in which the 

 centre line of the main track of the Canadian Pacific Eailway is intersected by 

 the line between townships numbers 73 and 74, as located on the ground by 

 E. Stewart, O.L.S., in his survey of township outlines along the C.P.E. in 1894. 

 From this said point I ran north astronomically a distance of 32 miles and 25 

 links to the north-east angle of the pulp limit, this said line forming the easterly 

 boundary thereof. I planted the 4 Mile Post as directed in my instructions and at 

 the end of each mile thereafter I planted a wooden post. These posts were made 

 of the most durable wood obtainable. In a very few instances it was found 

 absolutely necessary to use balsam posts but the great majority of the posts, as shown 

 on my field notes, are either of spruce or of Banksian pine. Wherever possible, I 

 placed a cairn of stones about the post. I planted iron posts beside the wooden 

 posts at the end of every third mile, as instructed and marked the iron posts 

 with a cold chisel. The iron and wooden posts are marked with Eoman numerals, 

 marked with the number of the mile from the initial point of each line. I 

 marked two bearing trees, wherever possible, for each mile post. These are shown 

 on my field notes. In some instances, it was impossible to get any bearing trees; 

 these instances are also noted in field notes. Unless otherwise specified in my 

 field notes, all wooden posts planted were dressed six inches square. All posts were 

 firmly planted in the ground, and after being set, stand at least three feet above 

 tlie ground. 



From the north-east angle of the Pulp Limit, I ran west astronomically on six 

 mile chords of the parallel of latitude, a distance of 46 miles to the north-west 

 angle of the limit, and from that point, I ran south astronomically to the shore 

 line of Lake Superior. Where the end of a mile came in a lake, as it did in several 

 instances, I planted a post on the nearest shore and marked it to show its distance 

 from the true position. 



Where the distance across a lake or river could not be obtained with a steel 

 tape in the usual way, I obtained the width by triangulation. The base of the 

 triangles employed in this work was, in all but two or three instances, made of 

 sufficient length to give an angle opposite the base of not less than ten degrees. 

 Frequent astronomical observations for azimuth were taken and the notes of these 

 I am enclosing with my field notes. My lines of survey were well cut out and 

 particular attention was paid to the blazing thereof. On ithe north boundary there 

 is a burnt area of eleven miles in extent. There was no timber on this area 

 so no blazing at all could be done. However, I had my picket man plant pickets 

 with a mound of stone about them whenever he could do so, to render it possible 

 to find and follow this line. Wherever there was green timber, the line was well 

 hlazed in the prescribed manner. 



