1921-22 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS 69 



the conclusion of the work we stored our canoes with the Hudson Bay Company 

 at Allan Water and entrained for home. 



The party consisted of twenty-four in all, made up as follows; 



1 Surveyor, 



1 Assistant, 



3 Chainmen, 

 1 Cook, 



1 Cookee, 



6 Axemen, 



7 Packers on line, 



4 Packers with freighting canoes. 



This distribution was maintained throughout the whole course of the 

 survey, except that where possible two or three packers were put on the line 

 to chop. 



Soil. 



There are no areas in the country traversed by these lines suitable for 

 agriculture. The country is, in the main, solid rock on the surface and such 

 soil as occurs is glacial sand and gravel covered lightly with decayed vegetable 

 matter. 



Minerals. 



We found no traces of valuable minerals. The formation encountered 

 was laurentian throughout. 



Timber. 



From our starting point to the twenty-third mile on the base line the 

 country has been burnt of all timber by several fires. No seeding trees have been 

 left alive and it is covered for the most part with scrubby bushes. There is a 

 little small spruce in some of the swamps. From this point to the end of the 

 base line and through the first fifty miles of the meridian, the country is heavily 

 timbered with large spruce, birch and poplar. In my opinion it extends about 

 ten miles on each side of the meridian and forms a very valuable stand. 



Water Powers. 



Some rapids and falls were encountered by the freighting canoes on the 

 water way known as Allan Water, but they were a long distance from our line 

 and I have no data on them. The flow of water is not great but the storage 

 possibilities are almost limitless and several of these powers might be jointly 

 harnessed and a commercial amount of power thus carried to the railway by a 

 comparatively short transmission line. 



Game. 



The timbered country abounds in moose and fur-bearing animals. There 

 are also a few red deer and caribou. Beaver are particularly plentiful. Ducks 

 and partridge appeared to be in great numbers everywhere. 



