1921-22 



DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS 



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The new system of monumenting each third mile entailed a good deal of 

 extra work, but it is undoubtedly an excellent method of ensuring permanent 

 record of lines in the field. I did not find the new iron posts much more difficult 

 to handle than the old type as we were only supplied with sufficient for ninety 

 miles, but had we taken enough for all our work, it would have necessitated 

 employing another man with the freighting canoes. Fifty per cent, of the iron 

 posts planted were witness posts and many of them a considerable distance 



Surveyed line in Patricia. 



from the true mile post, due to solid rock, muskeg, etc. We experienced con- 

 siderable difficulty digging pits in the first few miles owing to frozen ground. 



Soil. 



The only section which presents any possibilities as farming jfland is 

 along the Berens River from mile 16 on the base line to mile 45. This is 



5 L.F. 



