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Appendix No. 34. 

 To Subdivide the Eesidue of the Township of Casgraix, District of Algoma. 



Beacebkidge, November 20th, 1919. 



SiR^ — Pursuant to your instructions dated the loth April, 1919, I have sur- 

 veyed the residue of the Township. of Casgrain, that is the ninth to twelfth con- 

 cessions inclusive, Pivabiska Lake and the Mattawishkhwia Eiver, and beg to 

 report as follows: — 



I organized my party consisting of myself, two chainers, picket men, three 

 axe men and a cook, at North Bay on the 29th July, 1919, and proceeded to 

 Hearst, arriving there on the 31st, reaching the easterly limit of the ninth con- 

 cession of Casgrain, by the Mattawishkhwia Eiver on August 2nd, where I com- 

 menced my survey, which consisted of posting the front of the ninth concession 

 (the line between the eighth and ninth concessions having been previously run 

 by Coltham and Coltham, 1912) and running the line between the tenth and 

 eleventh concessions, and the side lines between lots six and seven, twelve and 

 thirteen, eighteen and nineteen, twenty-four and twenty-five north from the eighth 

 concession, and the re-chaining and posting of Speight's base line, the north 

 boundary of the township. 



I found the north boundary, this line Avhich had been run twelve years ago 

 in a very bad shape through the entire township, owing to it being grown up 

 with tag alders. I also surveyed the Mattawishkhwia Eiver. Pivabiska Lakes and 

 three other small lakes, as shown on the accompanying plan. Iron posts were 

 planted at the intersection of the surveyed lines as shown in the field notes. 



General Features. 



The four concessions of the township might be said to be chiefly muskeg 

 covered, as usual, with small spruce and tamarac ranging from three to eight 

 inches. Considerable portion of the higher land as shown on the plan has been 

 burnt over, I should say, about thirty years ago, and is now covered with second 

 growth of poplar and birch. West of Pivabiska Lake the land is somewhat higher 

 than the general run, is slightly undulatihg, covered with poplar and birch. 



Soil, 



The subsoil throughout is heavy clay, covered on the muskeg with anywhere 

 from two to six feet of moss, on the burnt areas with a few inches of humus. 

 There is very little rock in evidence. 



Timber. 



The general run of timber is spruce in the muskegs together with some 

 balsam and tamarac. The diameter ranges from three to eight inches. The^ 

 higher land has poplar and birch as shown on the accompanying timber plan. 



Minerals. 



As stated there are few outcroppings of rock and I submit herewith, a sample 

 which appears to be general throughout the township. The shores of Pivabiska 



