130 REPORT OF THE 



Ontario Railway, where we remained all night, and took the early boat on 

 Monday morning up Bay Lake which connects with otlier boats up the Mont- 

 real River by which we arrived at vSmyth town plot in the evening. 



The survey was commenced the following morning by first locating the 

 line l>etween lots 5 and 6, concession 4, township of Tames. This was done 

 by re+racing the line between lots 4 and 5, concession 4, and running the line 

 parallel to a line joining the limits of said line between lots 4 and 5 from a 

 post planted by Ontario Land Surveyor, Alexander Baird in 1903, on the 

 concession line between concessions 3 and 4, for lots 5 and 6, to its intersec- 

 tion with the southerly shore of Elk Lake (Montreal River), from which 

 point a traverse was then run northwesterly along the southerly shore of 

 Elk Lake to the probable westerly limit of the town plot. 



The above mentioned work was then plotted, and a projected plan made 

 of the subdivision by laying off lots at right angles in the general course 

 to the lake front, as is shown on the finished plan, and leaving a road allow- 

 ance of one chain in perpendicular width along said lake. 



The subdivision was then commenced, by first running and chaining the 

 southerly limit of Second Street from the easterly limit of the lot to the 

 westerly limit of the subdivision. The easterly limit of Spruce Street was 

 then run at right angles to it northerly to the southerly shore of Elk Lake, 

 and southerly to the northerly shore of Bear River. These lines were used 

 as base lines from which all the remaining lines were run. The points of 

 commencement of the remaininsr street lines were then laid off on the above 

 mentioned base lines, and said lines were run and chained. All lines cross- 

 ing Bear River were made continuous and parallel to each other. The chain- 

 ages at the intersection of these lines with Bear River, Elk Lake, and the 

 other subdivision limits were noted, and the above mentioned projected plan 

 was completed, leaving a road allowance of one chain in perpendicular width 

 alonsr Bear river, and the lots numbered as shown on the completed plan. 



The lots were then posted bv chaining from the intersection of the above 

 mentioned street lines, noting the chainage in width and length of all lots 

 posted. The back lines of the lot were then run and posted as shown on the 

 plan and field notes. The fronts of broken lots uIouq- TVatf^r Street, River 

 Street east, and River Street west, were then run and posted. 



The posts along the street lines were all marked with a scribe or scrib- 

 ing iron showing the adjoining lot numbers and "R" on the side facing the 

 street. Iron posts (tubes), one and one-fourth inches in diameter, and three 

 feet long, forged nt the top, and painted red, were similarly marked with n 

 cold chisel and planted at the following points. At the northerly angle of 

 lot "A" at the northeasterly and southeasterly angles of lot eight, at th(> 

 southwesterly angle of lot one, at the northeasterlv angle of lot sixteen, at 

 the southeaster! V angle of lot seventeen, at the southwesterly angle of lot 

 thirty-four, at the southeasterly angle of lot forty-two, at the southeasterly 

 ann-le of lot forty-eight, at the southwesterly angle of lot sixty-six, at the 

 soi'theasterly angle of lot seventy-two. at the southeasterly angle of lot 

 seventy-six, at the southerly angle of lot eighty-one, at the northwesterly 

 and southwesterly angles of lot eighty-three, at the northeasterly and south- 

 easterly engles of lot eighty-five, at the northeasterly angle of lot ninety- 

 six, at the easterly angle of lot ninetv-eiorht, at the westerly anorle of lot 

 ninety-nine at the southwesterly angle of lot ninety-three, at the northwesterly 

 angle of lot one hundred f^nd twenty-one, at the north and easterly angle 

 of lot one hundred and thirteen, at the southwesterly angle of lot one him- 

 dred and thirty, at the southwesterly angle of lot one hundred and forty- 

 one, and at the southeasterly angle of lot one hundred and fifty. 



