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ing on the Lake of the Woods, and low lands in Morson and at the mouth of the 

 Rainy River, causing continual changes in the vessel channel between Kenora and 

 Rainy River by causing Sable Island (commonly known as the Sand Banks) to 

 be washed away by new currents and filling up the'main channel at its mouth. This 

 can be overcome only by building from properly designed plans, cribwork where 

 the channel requires dredging, lowering the waters in the Lake of the Woods four 

 feet, removing the sunken dam and compelling the Keewatin Power Company to 

 keep it at its hormal level. 



The iron posts in the township of Morson, district of Rainy River, have placed 

 them according to instructions, dated the twenty-eighth day of April, nineteen 

 hundred and eight, as follows: — 



At the south-west angle of the township of Morson, at the interes'ection of the 

 forty-ninth parallel of latitude, with the shore of the Lake of the Woods, I have 

 marked with a cold chisel " Morson '' on the north-east side, " Con. 1 " on the 

 north side, and " number 17 " on the east side. 



On the post on the south-east angle of the township of Morson, I have marked 

 with a cold chisel " Morton " on the north-west side, " Con. 1 " on the north side 

 and " 1 '' on the west side. 



Alongside of the wooden post on the east boundary, where it intersects the 

 shore of Lake of the Woods, I have planted an iron tube, and marked this with 

 a cold chisel " Con.' IX." on the south side, "Lot 1" on the wesf side and 

 " Morson." 



I have the honour to be, 



Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 

 (Signed) William Murdoch, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 



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

 Toronto. 



Appendix No. 2jlf. 

 Township of Umbach, District of Rainy River. 



Prescott, Ontario, April 20th, 1909. 



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

 township of Umbach, situated some fifteen miles north-west of Kenora. My in- 

 structions were dated the twenty-eighth of May, nineteen hundred and eight, and 

 I received them a few days later, and on the following twenty-fifth of June, I 

 visited the neighbourhood and found the country so wet that I decided to postpone 

 the said survey untik later in the season. I returned to Kenora the latter part of 

 October, and I had ^11 my provisions transported by water and cached before the 

 river and lakes were frozen. Active operations were begun at the south-west corner 

 of the township on Monday, the second of November last, and an observation hav- 

 ing been previously taken on the eastern elongation of polaris, the meridian line 



