1920-21 DEPARTMENT OF LAXDS AND FORESTS. 51 



Appendix No. 15. 



Eeport on Crown Land Surveys. 



Sir, — Acting under instructions given during the past year twenty Ontario 

 Land Surveyors with accompanying parties were engaged on field-work throughout 

 the northern part of the Province. The extent and nature of these surveys may 

 be briefly described as follows: 



Exploratory Work. 



A meridian Tine extending north from the westerly end of Lac Seul for one 

 hundred miles into the District of Patricia and a base line forty miles west there- 

 from were surveyed by K. G. Eoss, O.L.S. Similar work to the same extent 

 north of Lake St. Joseph was performed by J. S. Dobie, O.L.S., last year. The 

 reports and returns of this work may be considered to give in a general way the 

 character of the country in the District of Patricia south of latitude fifty-two 

 degrees north. 



The western limit of the Nipigon Forest Reserve in the District of Thunder 

 Bay was established on the ground by Phillips & Benner, O.L.S., and this meridian 

 was extended north to White Water Lake on tlie Ogoki River waters. Latitude 

 fifty degress forty-five minutes north, longitude eighty-nine degrees ten minutes 

 west. This vast forest reserve comprising seven thousand square miles surrounding 

 Lake Nipigon has now been defined on the ground with the exception of the north 

 limit and this will enable the Department to deal with timber and mining lands 

 in that district and the lines will form a base from which other exploratory work 

 can be carried on. 



Township Boundaries, Nine Mile System. 



Outlines of twelve, nine mile townships in the Districts of Timiskaming and 

 Algoma on the Ground Hog and Kapuskasing River watersheds were surveyed 

 by Sutcliffe & Neelands, O.L.S., and N. B. MacRostie, O.L.S. This work com- 

 pletes the blocking of the territory lying between the two lines of the Canadian 

 National Railway in the District of Timiskaming. The reports on this work 

 indicate a large area of good clay land but requiring extensive drainage to make 

 suitable for agriculture. The territory covered is well timbered with spruce, poplar, 

 birch and balsam. 



Township Boundaries, Six Mile System. 



A large unexplored area in the District of Sudbury lying north of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway between Ramsay and Dalton Stations was blocked out 

 in six mile townships, this work being assigned to Ontario Land Surveyors H. J. 

 Beatty, J. W. Fitzgerald, C. V, Gallagher, McAuslan & Anderson, Speight & 

 Van Nostrand, and A. C. Young. This area is not suitable for agriculture and 

 may be described as a boulder country with sand clay and muskeg, rough and 

 hilly, timbered with second growth spruce, banksian pine, birch, balsam and poplar. 



Another area comprising six townships in the vicinity of White Lake and 

 Shabotik River north of the Canadian Pacific Railway and immediately west of 

 the district line between Thunder Bay and Algoma. was blocked out by M, E. 

 Crouch. O.L.S. This area is well timbered with banksian pine and is unsuitable 

 for agriculture. 



