DO EEPOET OF THE No. 3 



In the case of the posts at the following corners : Lots nineteen and twenty, 

 ■concession two, lots five and six, concession three, lots seven and eight, concession 

 four, lots five and six, concession five, and lots twenty-one and twenty-two, con- 

 cession six, as these corners fell in bodies of water, posts were planted on the north 

 shore of the bodies of water, in which they fell at points bearing north astronomic- 

 ally from their proper positions on the concession lines and the distances were 

 measured from the concession lines and noted in the field notes. A post was 

 planted on the easterly shore of One Island Lake to indicate the position of the 

 line between lots five and six, concession two, as this line is almost entirely in 

 the lake. Lot fifteen, concession four, on the north side of Hawk Bay is made 

 to include the portion of what would be lot sixteen to the west of it. The 

 ■easterly boundary of lot twenty-two, concession three, was made the Dog Eiver, 



A road allowance one chain in width was laid off around Dog Lake and Little 

 Dog Lake and along both sides of the Dog Eiver. Posts to mark the corners of 

 lots fronting on the lakes or in cases where an intersection was in the lake, were 

 planted at the perpendicular distance of one chain from the high water line. 

 On Dog Lake witness posts were planted in front of these and the surrounding 

 trees, where there were any, were well blazed. 



The lines were well opened up and blazed. Observations were taken fre- 

 -quently and will be found recorded in the field notes. The magnetic variation 

 remained fairly constant at two degrees east but in places this was found to 

 ■vary to a considerable extent. 



A stadia traverse was made of all bodies of water in the township and field 

 notes prepared of same on the scale of ten chains to an inch. On Dog Lake 

 the position of the original shore line is shown as nearly as it is possible to do 

 without taking soundings. This is shown as a dotted line in the field notes. 



TiMBEK. 



A timber plan of the .township accompanies this report. Over half of the 

 timber has been destroyed by forest fires at different times. That portion of 

 . the township east of One Island Lake is now grown up with jack pine, poplar 

 and birch about twenty-five to thirty years old. In cases where fire has passed over 

 in recent years the only timber of value now left is the spruce in the swamps. 

 Of the timber not destroyed by fires nearly all of value has been cut. In the 

 last year there have been four lumber camps operating within the township and 

 I)y the ooming spring only small patches of good timber will be left. Eires 

 occurred in two places during the progress of the survey. One of these was 

 west of One Island Lake and the other was south and west of Dog Lake in con- 

 cessions three and four. Neither of these fires was started by any members of 

 our party. Another fire has passed over a small area along the Dog Eiver in 

 lots twenty-three and twenty-four in concessions five and six, since the lines 

 were run. None of these did any material damage. 



Soil. 



The southerly three concessions of the township are fairly good agricultural 

 lands, there being between fifty per cent, and sixty per cent, good soil. This 

 ranges from clay loam in the central portions to sandy loam on the easterly 

 and westerly ends of the concessions. In the burned over area south of Dog 

 Lake in concessions three and four, nearly all the timber is gone and this land 



