REPORT OF THE No. 3 



The final instructioBS for my guidance reached me on the third day of 

 June and I started the same evening for Fort William, where I arrived two 

 days later and spent the next few days in securing and forwarding supplies and 

 necessary camp equipment and selecting men to take charge of the transport. 

 On Saturday the 8th, I proceeded with a full party to Osko, a station on the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway in Block No. 1, about a mile and a half from the 

 north boundary of the block. Here I found a small storehouse where I left 

 part of my supplies and started in search of a post planted by Mr. E. Stewart, 

 Ontario Land Surveyor, in 1895, to mark the township outline which was 

 taken as the north outline of this block. 



Having taken observations for Latitude and Azimuth, I proceeded to 

 reopen the line run west by Mr. Stewart twelve years ago, a mile and a' 

 half to the west boundary of the township and re-establish the post planted 

 by him and there planted the iron post marking the northwest corner of 

 Block No. 1, and the southeast corner of Block No. 2. Tleturning to thei 

 railway I produced the line east ten and a half miles to the proposed easterly 

 limit of the block; then returning to the northwest corner I ran the west 

 boundary south six miles and then proceeded to the intersection of the south 

 boundary with the Canadian Pacific Railway, finding Mr. Stewart's post 

 about a quarter of a mile southeast of Buda Tunnel, marking the outline 

 taken as the south boundary of the block. 



From the Canadian Pacific Railway I first re-opened Ontario Land 

 Surveyor Stewart's line two and a half miles to his iron post at the south- 

 east corner of the township renewing the posts and marking them as peii 

 instructions. I then ran west to the southwest corner of the block and' 

 returning east six miles to Stewart's iron bar, I produced the line east six 

 miles further to the proposed southeast corner of the block, where I turned 

 and ran north eight-five chains, coming suddenly on the Dog River, which 

 I was instructed not to cross but to fall back on my south boundary far 

 enough so that in running north the boundary would not come in contact 

 with the Dog River or Lake. I set the iron post marking the southeast 

 corner of Block No. 1, forty chains farther west and ran the east boundary 

 of the block north to its intersection with the north boundary and marked 

 the northeast corner with an iron bar as per instructions. 



The surface of the ground may be classed as undulating to hilly, becom- 

 ing rougher towards the east end of the block. The soil throughout is sandy 

 loam, sand or gravel. Some spots are covered with large eratic boulders of 

 glacial deposit. The rock, where outcrops occur, is granite of the Laurentian 

 formation. The block as we recede from the railway becomes heavily 

 timbered, the timber increasing in size and value towards the east end of 

 the block where there are scattered pines from twenty to twenty-eight 

 inches in diameter, also some large poplar, birch, spruce and tamarac. In 

 the vicinity of the railway, the timber has been to a great extent fire killed, 

 some parts of recent date and others where ten or twelve years have 

 expired since_ injurious fires passed over. 



There are no lakes within sight of the outlines in the block that are' 

 worthy of mention, and the only stream of any size is the Osko River, which 

 enters the block from the west crossing the west boundary in the fifth mile 

 and leaving the block near the west end of the eleventh mile on the south 

 boundary. 



Work in this block was finished the 10th of July and a move made bj 

 train from Buda to Dexter on the day following, the weather from beginning 

 of June having been all that one could desire. On the 13th of July the 

 weather took on a great change, heavy showers accompanying electric 



