1921-22 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS 61 



Appendix No. 20. 



Cobalt, Ont., February 1st, 1922. 

 Survey of Small Lakes North and East of Lake Timagami, Districts of 



TiMISKAMING AND NiPISSING. 



Sir, — In obedience to your instructions dated May 2nd, 1921, to traverse 

 certain lakes and canoe routes in the Timagami Forest Reserve, I have sur- 

 veyed as much of my contract as was possible in a season, and beg to report 

 as follows: — 



1. — Routine of Work. 



On May 7th I left Cobalt with my party. We packed in supplies to Anima, 

 Nipissing Lake and corhmenced survey thereof the following Tuesday, May 

 10th, carrying on through McLean, Carrying and Red Squirrel Lakes down to 

 Sandy Inlet on Lake Timagami, surveying the small lakes Pickerel, Gull Rock, 

 Breeches, Mountain and Clearwater from camps on Anima, Nipissing, finishing 

 this section of the work on June 9th. 



On June 10th we moved down through Lake Timagami, Snake Island, 

 White Bear and into Rabbit Lake, reprovisioning the outfit and commencing 

 the survey of Rabbit Lake on June 15th. The survey was carried on from here 

 through White Bear, Snake Island, Obaskong, Net, Cedar and Thieving Bear 

 Lakes, completing Thieving Bear Lake on the morning of July 28th, and mov- 

 ing a light camp the same day to Mountain Lake. As the route from Thieving 

 Bear to Mountain Lake is through a very small winding creek, barely more 

 than fifteen feet wide in low water, I did not feel that the time necessary to 

 survey this would be well spent and, therefore, sketched the route and chained 

 the portages, which are in fair condition. For driving logs, dams will be neces- 

 sary to raise the water above the low fiat banks of the present creek. 



The survey of Mountain Lake was completed on July 29th and camp 

 moved to mileage 76, T. & N. O. Ry., at Net Lake, on July 30th. A few days 

 were spent making arrangements to have camp outfit picked up by the way 

 freight and moved to Doherty Station, and in getting a new supply of provi- 

 sions. However, with as little delay as possible the survey of Twin Lakes was 

 commenced on August 4th. After surveying Upper and Lower Twin Lakes 

 and Lowell Lake, we moved camp on August 12th to a small lake two and one- 

 half miles south of Doherty. The water was very low and the canoe route 

 through the northeast corner of Law township had not been in use for ten or 

 twelve years, so we cut a new portage three-quarters of a mile south into Angus 

 Lake. This we found to benefit others as well, probably more than twenty 

 tourists passing through this way in the short time we were surveying Angus 

 and Caribou Lakes. From here we continued survey through Angus, Jumping 

 Caribou, Ingall, Brophy, Green, Wasaksinagama, Island, Herr dge, Wilson and 

 Christy Lakes, finishing this portion of the work on October 12th. On October 

 13th, I moved camp to T magami Lake, arriving back in Cobalt and paying 

 off the men on October 14th. 



All the work allotted to me was not completed but I have tried to survey 

 as many lakes as possible along the routes to save going over the same ground 

 a second time. 



