1921-22 



DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS 



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Township of Magladery. 

 The river runs through the south-west corner of the township, being at 

 no point very far from the corner. The current is easy, and soil and timber 

 conditions the same as in the township of Rykert. 



Greenhill River or Conking River. 



Pursuant to your instructions, I made a survey of this river from the Mis- 

 sinaibi River to Greenhill Lake, a distance of about thirty-five miles. In the 

 first two miles of the river, from Missinaibi to the Canadian Railway crossing, 

 the river falls thirty feet in a succession of rapids, a portage over a mile long 

 being necessary. For about fifteen miles upstream from the Canadian National 

 Railway crossing, the river has a very slight current, and is easily navigable 

 for loaded launches, there being a depth of from ten to twenty feet at low water 



Poplar Forest, in Township of Stanton, Missanabie River. 



stage. Above this the river is easily navigable for canoe at ordinary 

 stage. About seventeen miles upstream, Reva Falls has a drop of 32.7 feet, 

 and three miles above this, Biron Falls and rapids has a drop of 30.8 feet. Above 

 this, there is an aggregate fall from Greenhill Lake of about thirty-two feet, 

 distributed through about a dozen small rapids. Greenhill Lake is merely an 

 enlargement of the river, only about two hundred feet at its widest point. The 

 watershed area above the two falls is very small, so that power development is 

 out of the question. 



The soil consists of clay, with outcroppings of rock at the falls and rapids. 



The timber consists of spruce and a moderate quantity of poplar, balsam, 

 and birch — a good deal of it below merchantable size — and scattered areas of 

 jack-pine, large enough for timber. The spruce timber alone would warrant 

 pulpwood operations. 



