REPOl^T OF THE ' Xo. 3 



University Lands, 



The area of these lands sold during the year was 720.87 acres for $360.44. 

 The amount collected on account of these and former sales was $1,806.18. (See 

 Appendix jSTo. 3, page 23.) 



Ceown Lands. 



There was sold during the year for agricultural and town site purposes 

 72,591.08 acres for $69,956.87. The collection on account of these and former 

 sales was $81,480.12. 



Crown Lands to the extent of 10,688.81 acres were leased for $2,155.06. 

 Collections on these and former leases amounted to $59,583.18. 



The total area of Crown Lands disposed of by sale and lease throughout the 

 year was 84,379.81 acres for the sum of $72,961.54. The total collections on 

 account of sales, leases, etc., were $150y015.59. (See Appendix No. 3, page 23.) 



Bush lot in 1917, 120 acres cleared in 1920. Farm of R. R. Long and Son, in Bowman 



Township. 



Settlers in Sale Townships. 



The tendency towards purchasing lands in Northern Ontario for pioneer 

 settlement slightly improved over the previous year. Temiskaming District with 

 its agencies at New Liskeard, Englehart, Matheson, and Cochrane, all falling 

 within the great clay belt, is more largely in the eye of prospective land settlers 

 than any other particular section, presumably because it offers, by means of the 

 Provincial Government Railway and the Transcontinental Line, a ready means of 

 acquiring the best of clay loam soil and a reasonable supply of pulpwood. There 

 a settler is able to secure regular employment in the bush or lumber camps during 

 the winter months to earn sufficient means to assist him in clearing and improving 

 his homestead and, with the advantages accruing from his rights under a fairly 

 generous land regulation whereby, subject to certain conditions, he may cut and 

 sell his pulpwood, the settler, if possessed of ambition and energy, should make 

 good. 



Numerous inquiries are received from time to time relative to the securing 

 of land in all parts of the Province and with a view to facilitating the granting 



