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the first base line was run east to intersect the southerly production of the west- 

 erly boundary of the Black Sturgeon River Pulp and Timber Limit, surveyed 

 by our firm in 1918. This line was run in six mile chords of a parallel of latitude. 



From the sixth to eighteenth mile posts on the first base line the first and 

 second meridians, respectively, were run north astronomically. From the 

 twelve mile post on the second meridian the second base line was run east to 

 intersect the westerly boundary of the Black Sturgeon River Pulp and Timber 

 Limit, and from the same point was also run west to intersect the fir.-t meridian 

 and continued west to intersect the easterly limit of Grand Trunk Pacific Block 

 No. 5. This base line was also run in six mile chords of a parallel of latitude. 



A standard iron post was planted at the point of commencement. The 

 first mile post was planted at a distance of 51.00 chains east from this point. 

 The numbering of the mile posts on the first base line is from one to six to the 

 first meridian, from one to twelve between the first and second meridians and 

 from 1 to 17M + 78c.81 east of the second meridian. The meridians were 

 numbered from south to north from one to twelve. The second base line was 

 numbered from 1 to 17M + 75c.50 east of the second meridian, from 1 to 11M + 

 76c. 86 between the second and first meridian, from 1 to 14M + 68c.25 west of 

 the first meridian. Iron posts were planted at the points indicated in your 

 instructions. It was found necessary to erect seven witness monuments, and 

 the unfortunate part of this is that four of these were for intersections. 



Survey Lines. 



The lines established by an Ontario Land Surveyor were the boundaries 

 of Grand Trunk Pacific Blocks 4 and 5, and the west boundary of the Black 

 Sturgeon River Pulp and Timber Limits. The former were surveyed by O.L.S. 

 Fawcett in 1907, and the latter by ourselves in 1918. The south easterly corner 

 of Grand Trunk Pacific Block 5 has been burned over since the lines were run, 

 and we had some difhculty in locating it. The other lines are all in good con- 

 dition. 



We also found the trial lines of the survey of the Nipigon Savanne route of 

 the Canadian Pacific Railway. These were crossed in the fifth and sixth miles 

 of the first meridian. From here the general course of these lines is easterly 

 to a point about three miles north from the easterly end of the first base line. 



Topography, 



The country generally is not rough, the hills seldom being over one hundred 

 feet in height. From the heights of the hills shown in the field notes a fairly 

 accurate profile of the lines could be plotted as these heights were obtained by 

 calculation from the clinometer readings. 



The westerly eleven miles of the second base line is nearly all level country, 

 there being numerous shallow lakes and long stretches of muskeg and swamp. 

 The roughest country is towards the easterly end of the second base line. 



Soil. 



The agricultural possibilities of the area covered are rather poor. The 

 soil for the most part ranges from sand to sandy loam. The best soil is in the 

 valleys of the Dog and Des lies Rivers. The quality of the soil improves grad- 

 ually towards the east. On the second base line west of the second meridian 

 the soil is nearly all sandy loam and the subsoil in the swamps is of a sandy 



