50 EEPORT OF THE No. 3 



Appendix No. 18. 



Survey of Base and Meridian Lines, Districts of Algoma and 



Sudbury, 1909. 



Toronto, 27th December, 1909. 



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

 certain base and meridian lines in the Districts of Algoma and Sudbury, made 

 by us during the past summer under instructions from your Department, dated 

 18th May, 1909. 



Upon receipt of the instructions we immediately proceeded to make arrange- 

 ments for supplies, of which nearly six tons, exclusive of camp equippage, were 

 required. With nine men from Toronto and vicinity, we left for Woman River 

 Station, on the Canadian Pacific Railway, on 1st June, and upon our arrival 

 were joined by eleven other men from various parts of New Ontario. Additions 

 to the party were made from time to time as occasion required, the maximum 

 force at any time being thirty, all told. The work was in charge of T. B. 

 Speight, O.L.S., assisted by T. D. le May, O.LjS. 



The instructions state that the point of commencement is marked by " an 

 iron post on the north side of the right of way of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 

 about a mile and a half east of Woman River Station, on the line between Town- 

 ships numbers 18 and 19, as partially outlined by O.L.S. B, Stewart, which post 

 is distant 76 links north of the centre of said right of way and marked 18 M. 

 on the east and 19 M. on the west side, said post is also distant 91 chains and 

 3*7 links from the south-west angle of Township 18 as surveyed by O.L.S. 

 Stewart." Upon careful search it was found that the post referred to had been 

 removed and its accompanying wooden post destroyed by fire, and it was neces- 

 sary to determine the point by measuring from the iron post and point of old 

 spruce post still remaining on the south side of the right of way, verifying these 

 as to original position by measuring from the five mile post on O.L.S. Stewart's 

 meridian. 



A beginning was made on 3rd June from the initial point so established, 

 and the work was prosecuted continuously, with the exception of one week, which 

 was lost in re-outfitting after the destruction of about half of our camp effects 

 and instruments by a forest fire which swept in from the north-west on 11th 

 June. 



The first meridian was run from the above point of commencement north 

 for about sixty-five miles to the base line run by O.L.S. A. Niven in 1899. It 

 may here be noted that this base line forms the division between the systems 

 of "six-mile townships" to the south and "nine-mile townships" to the north. 

 At the forty-eighth mile post on this meridian, a base line was run east about 

 nineteen miles, to a point on the Ground Hog River about five miles north-east 

 from the Hudson's Bay Company's trading point known as Flying Post ; and, from 

 the same mile post, about twelve miles west, to connect with the Township of 

 Paul near its north-east angle. These two lines are referred to herein as the " first 

 base line." 



At the seventy-second mile post on O.L.S. Niven's base line, being about 

 one and three-qaarters miles west of the termination of the sixty-five mile line 

 referred to, the first meridian was continued twenty-seven miles north along 



