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the heavily loaded canoes. At this point an observation was taken and the 

 traverse carried forward, permanent stations being left so that the work could 

 be picked up coming back. 



Considerable time was spent trying to locate the line between the town- 

 ships of Kimberley and Cairo, where it first crosses the river. At this point, 

 the country has been burned over several times, the last time being in the 

 early part of the summer of 1920. For a mile or more, either side of the river, 

 what little timber there is standing, is so badly charred that it was impossible 

 to find any blazes. Close to the river, one tree was found having three blazes 

 on it that looked to be an old line. For purposes of closing off the traverse, 

 this was accepted as being the line, and was afterwards found to be nearly 

 correct when the traverse was figured to the second crossing. On account of 

 not being able to accurately locate the line without considerable time and work, 

 no posts were planted and no blazing done. 



On the first section of the river in Cairo Township, all mining claims were 

 ocated and tied to the traverse, excepting H.F. 11, 14 and 13. The fire at 

 this point has swept the country bare, and completely destroyed the posts 

 belonging to these three claims. 



At the second and third crossings of the line between Kimberley and Cairo, 

 the traverse was tied in and the line cleaned out, re-blazed and posted. In 

 figuring latitudes and departures of the traverse between the second and third 

 crossings of the line, the departures did not balance within approximately 

 seven and one-half chains. The first mile of the township line was then chained 

 and found to be in error nearly the same amount. 



On the second section of the river in Cairo Township, all mining claims 

 were located and tied in, excepting E.B. 2 and E.B. 9. Here, too, fire had 

 destroyed all signs of lines and posts. 



From here to the north end of the work, no difiiculty was experienced in 

 locating lines and posts of mining claims or townships. These were cleaned 

 out and reblazed and posted where necessary. There was some trouble in 

 finding the portages between the lakes north of Trout Lake, but these were 

 well opened out and blazed when the traverse was run between the lakes. 



In figuring the latitudes and departures for the townships of Robertson 

 and Michie, the departures taken separately did not balance within approx- 

 imately fifteen chains. On figuring the traverse between the south boundary 

 of Robertson and the north boundary of Michie, it balanced very closely, thus 

 showing the error to be on the line between Robertson and Michie. 



The traverse was finished on the north end of the work on September 

 28th, 1920, and the party were down to the head of Long Rapids in Kimberley 

 Township and at work in the afternoon of September 30th, 1920. In this 

 section, all township, concession and lot lines were located and re-blazed and 

 posted where necessary. All the original posts were found, excepting that on 

 the line between lots 4 and 5 in the first concession of the township of Willison. 

 This line was chained to the post on the first concession line for the necessary 

 tie. 



Instrument Work. 



A Gurley Light Mountain transit with adjustable stadia hairs, was used 

 on this work. Frequent tests of the stadia were made during the progress of 

 the work, but at no time was it found necessary to change the adjustment of 

 the hairs. The high degree of accuracy attained may be judged from the 



