1907 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. 



ently not reached and tlie timber is of better quality. North of Jarvis Lake 

 foi about six miles, the line runs through a fairly good growth of timber 

 similar to that already described along the south boundary. No pine, how- 

 ever, was noticed except jack pine. One or two burnt areas occur, the fires 

 having apparently started at the right of way of the Grand Trunk Pacific 

 Kail way. The northern, six miles of the east boundary were practically 

 all burnt over during the past season and whatever valuable timber there 

 was has been destroyed. A few green belts remain, but they consist of low 

 swampy areas, which have been run around by the fire. This burnt area 

 extends east of Block 9 as far as could be seen from the line, but no sign of 

 fire was noticed on the west boundary of Block 8, w-hich is about six miles 

 east of the line above referred to. This fire also appears to have originated at 

 the right of way of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and has burnt over a 

 very large extent of country. 



The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway crosses the block about the middle 

 of the block. The general direction of the railway being northwest and 

 southeast. 



Block 10. 



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The survey of Block 10, was commenced at the thirty-fifth mile post on 

 the base line run by Ontario Land Surveyor Alexander Niven in 1897. 

 From this point, a line was run due north astronomically a distance of eight 

 miles, the north-east corner of Block 10, being at the end of the eighth mile. 

 This corner came in Deception Lake. The point where the north limit of 

 Block 10 intersected the shore of Deception Lake was determined by a 

 triangulation, the details of which are shown in the field notes. From the 

 north-east corner, the north boundary of Block 10 was run due west astro- 

 nomically, a distance of seventeen miles, fifty three chains, sixty five links, 

 to where it intersected the east boundary of Indian Reserve number twenty- 

 eight. The Indian Reserve boundary was opened out and re-blazed as far 

 as the shore of Lost Lake, where the original corner post of the Reserve 

 was discovered. This line was then produced across a bay of Lost Lake and 

 across the point of the Indian Reserve which extends a considerable dis- 

 tance east of this line. This line was not re-blazed in crossing the point of 

 the reserve. I obtained an observation on Polaris on this point, and found 

 the bearing of the line to be south 1 degree .07 minutes west astronomically. 

 I corrected this at the south side of the point on the Reserve by off-setting a 

 distance of 2 chains, 56.6 links to t4ie east, which gave me a point due south 

 astronomically from the original corner post of Indian Reserve number 

 twenty-eight above referred to. The details of the observations and calcu- 

 lation involved in making this correction are shown in their proper place 

 in the field notes. 



I then ran due south astronomically, until I had reached a point six 

 miles, six chains, fifty-four links south of the northwest corner of Block 10. 

 The south boundary of the Block was then run due east astronomically to 

 where it intersected the line first run at a noint, one mile seventy-two chains 

 ninety-one links north from the thirty-fifth mile post on Ontario Land Sur- 

 veyor Niven's Base Line, the said point beinsr the south-east corner of Block 

 10. The east boundary of Block 10, is therefore, six miles, 7.09 chains in 

 length, and the west boundary is six miles, 6.54 chains in length. 



An iron post, one and seven-eighth inches in diameter was planted at 

 the southeast corner of Block 10, and m-^rked "G.T.R. Block 10" on the 

 northwest face. The northeast corner of Block 10 came in Deception Lake, 

 as before stated, but an iron post one and seven-eighth inches in diameter 



