82 REPORT OF THE No. li 



(Appendix No. 26.) 

 TowNSHir OF Barker, District of Algoma, 



GuELPH, Ont., Jany. 15th, 1908. 



Sir, — I have the honor to submit the following report on the survey of 

 the township of Barker, in the District of Algoma, made under instructions 

 from your Department dated May 6th, 1907. 



I left Missanabie Station on the Canadian Pacific Railway on June 3rd 

 and arrived at the southwest corner of the township on June 14th. 



The outlines of the township were run by Ontario Land Surveyor Alex- 

 ander Niven, the north boundary being his base line of 1900, while the east, 

 west and south boundaries were surveyed by him in 1906. 



The township is nine miles square and is subdivided under the new 

 system approved by Order-in-Council dated April 24th, 1906. 



A road allowance fifty links wide is left on each side of the outlines and 

 a road allowance one chain in width between alternate concessions, i.e., 

 between two and three, four and five, six and seven, eight and nine, ten and 

 eleven, and also a side road allowance one chain wide between lots six and 

 seven, twelve and thirteen, eighteen and nineteen, twenty-four and twenty- 

 five. 



The lines were run in the centres of the road allowances. 



Posts were planted on the concession lines between each of the lots, a 

 post being planted on the centre line as a guide to the corner posts and. 

 marked with the lot numbers on the east and west sides and "W on the north 

 and south sides, and a post on the south side of the road allowance marked 

 with the lot numbers on the east and west sides and concession number on the 

 south side and "li" on the north side; and a post on the north side of the 

 road allowance marked with the lot numbers on the east and west sides, the 

 concession number on the north side, and "R" on the south side. 



At a side road a post was planted at the intersection of the survey lines 

 and marked "E," on each of its four sides. A post was also planted on each 

 of the four lot corners and marked "B," on the two sides next to the road 

 allowances and with the number of the lot on the east or west side and the 

 number of the concession on the north or south side according \to the corner 

 on which it stood. 



No posts were planted on the side roads at the blind lines. 



There is an iron post one and seven-eighths inches in diameter at each 

 of the townshir) corners, marked "Barker" on the side facing the township. 



An iron post, one and one-quarter inches in diameter, is placed beside the 

 wooden post in the centre of the road allowance on the south boundary 

 between lots twelve and thirteen, marked "E," on four sides, "Lot XII." on 

 the east side, "Lot XIII." on the west side, "Con. I." on the north side. 



An iron post one and one-quarter inches in diameter is also planted 

 b?side the wooden post at the intersection of the line between concessions six 

 and seven with the side line between lots twelve and thirteen, marked "R" 

 on the four sides, "Lot XII." on the east side, "Lot XIII," on the west side, 

 "Con. VI." on the south, side, "Con. VII." on the north side. 



An iron post one and one-quarter inches in diameter is also planted 

 beside the wooden post on the north boundary at the line between lots twelve 

 and thirteen, marked "R" on the four sides, "Lot XII." on the east side, 

 "Lot XIII." on the west side, "Con. XII." on the south side. 



The surface of this township is comparatively level and there are no lakes 

 or large streams. 



