U REPORT OF THE No. 3 



East limit of 7C. 



Continuing north this timber is found on east limit of Township 70. On 

 2nd and 3rd miles there is some scattered white pine. 



On meridian between 50 and 5D. 



On the meridian between 50 and 5D the line is in large green cedar birch, 

 spruce and poplar for the first 47 chains going north. It then enters old brule 

 with timber mostly small birch, poplar, spruce, jack pine, with occasional clumps 

 of large timber which has escaped the fire. 



These clumps continue for about II/2 miles. The balance of the 6 miles is in 

 old brule with small timber. In many places on this 6 miles and on both sides 

 of 7-Mile Lake, there is considerable white and red pine of good quality and 

 from 10 to 24 inches in daimeter, which has survived the fire. 



Meridian between 70 and 7D and north to Lake Wenebegon. 



On the meridian between 70 and 7D the first mile is in old brule with small 

 jack pine. It then enters green jack pine, birch, poplar and spruce to about 

 12 inches diameter. This timber continues to end of 6 miles and on north to 

 about Sy^ miles in next line. It then enters the old brule again with small jack 

 pine, birch and spruce, which continues to Wenebegon Lake. Along this 13 miles 

 there is scattered white pine of good size. 



To the south and east of Wenebegon Lake there is considerable large white 

 pine of good quality in the old brule. 



The black spruce in Townships 5A, 6A, Y and Z will run from 5 to 10 cords 

 per acre of pulpwood in most of the swamps. There appears to be a larger per- 

 centage of swamp in these townships than in the others. Probably 10 per cent, 

 of the area is swanp. 



I have shown as accurately as possible on the accompanying timber map 

 in colors the area of the different timbers. 



The country is mostly rolling with occasional hills from 40 to 100 feet high. 

 The soil is all a rich sandy loam, but so broken with rock and boulders that it 

 is unfitted for anything but timber. 



The rock is all red granite. In places small deposits of iron pyrites were 

 observed. 



The magnetic variation is principally from 3 degrees to 6 degrees west. 

 The mean of a great number of readings shows 4 degrees, 40 minutes west. 



The only considerable water power met with is on the Wenebegon River in 

 Township 70. There the fall in about one-quarter of a mile is about 20 feet. 



There is also about 10 feet of a fall in a quarter of a mile in the rapids 

 just below Wenebegon Lake. 



The Abinette or Wabinette River is a fine stream about a chain wide in the 

 lower part and about half a chain in the upper stream and is navigable in low 

 water for loaded canoes to the south-eafit corner of Township 6A. 



The west branch of this stream is usually navigable for loaded canoes but 

 in low water is very tedious. We brought most of our supplies through by 

 Embrass River and the long portage to Moule Lake and from there into the west 

 ■ branch of the Abinette by the canoe route shown on the plan. 



