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Soil. 



This territory, if deprived of its timber and vegetation, would present a 

 very barren and inhospitable appearance, the surface being generally rock or 

 boulders and loose stones with very little soil except in the swamps. Any soil 

 present consists of sand or a very light sandy loam of a questionable agricultural 

 value. The only settler in the country is located at the outlet of the creek from 

 Red Squirrel Lake into Sandy Inlet on Lake Temagami. 



Rock Fokmatton. 



The whole country is composed of sharp rocky ridges, generally lying in a 

 northerly and southerly direction with frequent clifis and abrupt descents. The 

 rock is principally diabase of the Past Huronian period, and quartzite slate and 

 conglomerate of the Lower Huronian. Considerable prospecting has been done 

 throughout the more accessible part of the country Several properties are being 

 developed this winter and it is expected that by spring a more definite know- 

 ledge of the country will be obtained. 



Timber. 



The most of the timber of this country has been burned away and now it con- 

 sists principally of second groAvth poplar, birch, spruce, balsam and small pine. 

 Some small groves of red and white pine have escaped the fire, the principal one 

 being noticed from the line between the Townships of Dane and Kittson. It 

 appears to extend both east and west from this line for a considerable distance. 

 Also along the fifth mile of the southerly production of the east boundary of the 

 Township of Brigstocke a small grove was noticed jusit to the east of the line. 

 Banksian pine is pretty well distributed throughout this region, but it is of a small 

 size and generally pretty scattering. Very few swamps were met with, but in these 

 spruce and a few cedar of fair size and quality were noticed, while the tamarac, 

 as is common throughout this northern part of Ontario, is dead. 



There are no water powers of any value in this country, which is somewhat 

 curious from the large number of streams and lakes that are constantly met with. 

 It is from this fact and also from the beauty and picturesqueness of the landscape 

 when viewed from a canoe that has caused this region every fall to become a Mecca 

 of tourists. Nothing need be said about the beauties of this country or its fame 

 as a fishing or hunting preserve. It has been efiEectively and repeatedly described 

 by the various pamphlets issued by our railway companies, by the many articles 

 in our sporting magazines and by the press in general. 



Accompanying this report is a general plan on a scale of one mile to an inch, 

 a timber plan of the same scale, field notes, oaths of chainmen and all the other 

 necessary documents. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



I have the honour to be. 



Your obedient servant, 

 (Signed) C. H. Fullebton, 



Onitario Land Surveyor. 



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



Toronto, Ont. 



