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110,36, which will be refunded by the railways along whose lines the rangers 

 were employed. In forest reserves there were 109 rangers employed cost- 

 ing 141,884.72. On lands of the Crown in the Sturgeon Valley and else- 

 where 51 rangers were on duty at a cost <oi |14,497.36. The total expendi- 

 ture for fire ranging last year was |139,119.23. No serious fires were 

 reported. 



Cullers' Examinations. 



Examinations were held at North Bay, Port Arthur, Sault Ste. Marie, 

 Fort Frances and Kenora. Seventy-six candidates were successful at these 

 examinations, and were granted certificates authorizing them to act as 

 cullers. (For list of Licensed Cullers see Appendix No. 51, page 137.) 



Algonquin and Rondeau Parks. 



The reports of the Superintendents of these parks will be found in 

 Appendices Nos. 49 and 50, pages 134 and 136. 



Crown Surveys. 



The following Crown Surveys have been undertaken or concluded this 

 year : — 



Instructions for subdivision of. twenty-three townships were issued but 

 owing to the remarkably wet summer and fall in the north, only nine town- 

 ships have been completed in time for this year's report. The names of the 

 townships and the respective districts in which they are situate are as 

 follows : — 



District of Algoma, — Barker, Colquhoun, Devitt, Eilber, Godfrey, 

 Jamieson, Jessop, Kendrey, Laidlaw, Leitch, Mabee, Macdiarmid, McCrae, 

 McCowan, Mountjoy, Reaume and Staunton. District of Nipissing, — Bayly, 

 residue of Coleman, Glackmeyer, Hanna, Kennedy, and Purvis. Six hun- 

 dred and six miles of base and meridian lines have been run during the year, 

 of these, one hundred and twenty miles formed part of the district boundary 

 between Algoma and Thunder Bay. one hundred and eighty miles formed the 

 outlines of nine mile townships in the District of Algoma, west of the Missin- 

 abie River, one hundred and fifty-nine and one half miles formed the outlines 

 of six mile townships in the Larder Lake region, in the District of Nipissing ; 

 twenty-two and one-half miles of base line north of Lake Abitibi in the Dis- 

 trict of Nipissing, and one hundred and twenty-four miles of outlines of town- 

 ships in the Temagami Forest Reserve. 



The reports of the surveyors of the base and meridian lines in what may 

 be called the Clay Belt in Northern Ontario, as well as those of the sub- 

 divisions into lots and concessions continue to bear out the favorable impres- 

 sion of the adaptability and fertility of the soil for agricultural purposes. 



The outlines of the blocks of land set apart in accordance with the pro- 

 visions of Statutes of Ontario, 4th Edward 7th, Chapter 18, along the 

 Thunder Bay branch of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway to be granted to 

 the said Grand Trunk Pacific Railway have been nearly all surveyed and 

 defined upon the ground. Three hundred and eighty-nine and one half miles 

 of outlines having been run, leaving one block yet to be surveyed. 



A number of Timber Berths in the Districts of Algoma, Nipissing, 

 Rainy River and Thunder Bay have been surveyed during the year. 



