104 REPORT OF THE No. 3 



Timber. 



There is considerable brule in the Townships of Makawa, Moorhouse and 

 Martin, the only timber large enough and suitable for commercial purposes 

 being some jack pine on the line between Townships of Moorhouse and Makawa 

 between the first and third mile posts. There is also some spruce and jack 

 pine along the line between Makawa and Mildred, tributary to Fire River, 

 which does not appear to extend easterly on line between Nebotik and Wool- 

 rich beyond second mile post, and along line between Mildred and Hook Town- 

 ships there is fairly heavy timber consisting principally of spruce, jack pine, 

 poplar and balsam, from six to twenty inches in diameter, and on line between 

 Mildred and Marjorie timber is also fairly heavy, mostly spruce, poplar, balm 

 of gilead, from six to twenty inches in diameter. Along east boundary of 

 Nebotik and Abigo Townships the country is heavily timbered with spruce, 

 poplar, balsam, jack pine and balm of gilead up to twenty inches in diameter, 

 this latter is all tributary to the Greenhill River along which lumbering opera- 

 tions are being carried on, principally in taking out ties for railroad purposes. 



On the line between Farquhar and Alderson I did not encounter any burned 

 country, but this timber is small, consivSting principally of spruce from four to 

 eight inches in diameter, with scattered areas of jack pine up to ten inches in 

 diameter on the higher ground. 



On that portion of my contract lying north and northeast of Lake Minni- 

 puka, the lines between the Townships of Byng and Puskuta, between Minni- 

 puka and Byng, and between Minnipuka and Pelletier, is all green country 

 covered with a dense growth of spruce, balsam, poplar and birch, four to ten 

 inches, with occasionally some jack pine four to eight inches on the ridges, and 

 appears to have been all burned over about eighty years ago, and will have some 

 valuable timber possibilities providing fire is kept out of it. The line between 

 Roche and Pelletier is practically all through brule, apparently burned over 

 about forty years ago, with areas more recently burned over, and the country 

 is quite open in places. This brule extends to the southwest and northeast 

 from about twenty chains south of the first mile post. 



Minerals. 



No indication of economic minerals were found, there being rocky ridges 

 scattered generally throughout whole area covered by this survey. The high- 

 est and most prominent rock outcrop being between chainage fifty and seventy 

 on the fourth mile of the south boundary of Byng Township. From top of the 

 ridge one can see a great distance in all directions, Brunswick Lake being seen 

 to the east. 



Streams and Lakes. 



The main branch of Fire River is navigable by canoe through northeast 

 corner of Makawa Township, but through southeast part of Mildred it is very 

 crooked and blocked by logs and brushwood and with very little water flowing 

 in it this summer. From Mildred east there are numerous shallow rapids. 

 Report on Greenhill River has already been made to your department, it having 

 been surveyed in 1920. 



Goat River is a fair-sized stream, from a chain to two chains in width and 

 is navigable by canoes through Township of Minnipuka, that being only por- 

 tion I am acquainted with, it flows through a lake from ten to thirty chains 

 wide and about two and a half miles long, located about two miles north of 

 Minnipuka Lake. 



There are no water powers capable of development that I know of. 



