1907 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. 115 



Nearly every daj- in the week it rained during nearly the whole time 

 we were engaged, and one or two days or more in the week the rain was 

 heavy enough to compel us to quit work. This, no doubt, owing to the great 

 tracts of wet country and unbroken forest, is peculiar to the country. 



The lines were well cut out and blazed. 



The township for farming purposes may be called very good. The land 

 is nearly all clay, and has a large percentage dry enough on nearly every 

 lot to enable a settler to clear and produce a crop in a short time. On lot 

 8, concession' 2, there are about 40 acres of rock which probably is all there 

 is. in the township, except at the rapids along the Low Bush river. 



In concessions 3, 4 and 5 near the west boundary there are about 2,000 

 acres of very wet muskeg, in which there is very little timber. There is a 

 very small percentage of muskeg in the balance of the township. The town- 

 ship is fairly level. 



The Low Bush, Circle and Dokis rivers, which flow through a great 

 portion of the township are fine streams, and make the country most attrac- 

 tive. With the exception of some rapids near the north side of the town- 

 ship on the Low Bush river, the rivers flow with a gentle current, and have 

 a good depth, 't'hey empty into Abitibi Lake near the east boundary. The 

 Dokis river is from one to two chains wide, the others average nearly three 

 chains wide. 



The timber is black spruce, poplar, birch, balsam, balm of Gilead and 

 jack pine, also dry tamarac. With the exception of the jack pine, the tim- 

 ber is pretty evenly distributed, and attains in places a considerable 

 size, the black spruce up to 13 inches in diameter and the jack pine 15 inches, 

 the poplar to 20 inches. 



The jack pine is principally in the 5fh and 6th concessions. 



On the line between concessions 3 and 4, across parts of lots 4 and 5, 

 there is a distinqt path of a cyclone about 1,000 feet wide in a southeasterly 

 course. 



Small game is very scarce. There were tracks of moose and red deer 

 and bear. Some pike and pickerel were caught in the rivers. 



Small clearing on lot 1, con. 3, also small clearings and houses on lots 

 6 and 7, con. 4, are shewn in notes and plan. In the returns is enclosed a 

 schedule regarding them. 



Wild currants, skunk berries, high bush and swamp cranberries are the 

 principal small fruits. 



The measurements on the traverse of the waters were made with a 

 Stadia. 



No minerals were found. 



The west boundary was not measured. The lengths of the lots are 

 deduced from the closing of the concession lines with O.L.S. Newman's posts, 

 and the notes from his notes of survey of Marathon. 



I have the honor to be. 

 Sir, 

 Your obedient servant, 



(Sgd.) T. J. Patten, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 

 The Honorable, 



The Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto. 



