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stream is upwards of a chain in width but for the greater part of the distance 

 flows with a very slow current. 



There is not much game in the township, a few moose were seen but no red 

 deer. Traces of beaver were found in the remote parts. 



Accompanying this report are the field notes of the survey, a map of the town- 

 ship and a timber plan, all of which I trust will be found satisfactory. 



I have the honour to be, 

 Sir, 

 Your obedient servant, ^ 



(Signed) James Hutcheon, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 

 The Honourable, the Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto. 



Appendix No. 23. 

 Township of Morson, District of Eainy River. 



BowMANViLLE, Ont., February 9th, 1909. 



Sir, — I have the honour to submit my report on the township of Morson 

 survey. 



In many parts are tracts of good farming land, particularly in the south 

 and northwest portions, with stretches of sandy beach bordering the shore, suit- 

 able for summer resorts which the township plan will more particularly indicate. 



To develop this township a good waggon road should be constructed from 

 Bergland post office through the township of McCrosson and Tovell to a point 

 near the mouth of the Big Grassy River in Morson and about the entrance to Lake 

 Eleanor. 



At this point Mr. Niverson, representing sixty families from Minnesota and 

 John Everett, an explorer from Rainy River, visited my camp and informed me 

 that they had selected the land they wished to settle on near Lake Eleanor. 



December twentieth, nineteen hundred and eight, a carload of provisions, 

 implements and three span of horses came to Rainy River, and shortly afterward 

 the same settlers returned to Red River for three carloads more, preparing to 

 occupy lands indicated. John Everett confidently predicts that every foot of 

 farming land in the township will be taken up within a year. These intending 

 settlers are Norwegians, Danes, and Swedes, and they are most anxious to ascer- 

 tain when they can file at the Land Office for their homesteads. 



The Scandinavian Publishing Company of Winnipeg, wrote me inquiring 

 when the township of Morson would be surveyed, as their people desire to take up 

 land there, and I replied on receipt of letter. 



The settlers or squatters now in the township who have made improvements 

 are Danes, Norwegians, French and one Englishman (Oscar Langlais) on lot 

 seventeen in the first concession. He has twenty acres cleared with a comfortable 

 home, outhouses and garden, and has continuously occupied this location for the 



