1910-11 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FOEESTS AND MINES. 83 



Appendix No. 33. 



Survey of the Southern Part of the Township of Alexandra, District 



OF Sudbury. 



Delta, December 23rd, 1910. 



J 

 Sir, — Under y*mv instmctions dated July 5th, 1910, I have surveyed the 

 southern part of the Township of Alexandra in the District of Sudbury and beg 

 to submit the following report: 



The survey was carried out agreeable to instructions. Iron bars were marked 

 and planted as shown on plan and field notes. 



In the south-eastern part of the Township there is a large open spruce swamp 

 and a considerable part of the township lying east of Poplar River is swampy with 

 poplar ridges, but approaching the north boundary the country is higher and 

 drier. On the high ground and ridges the soil is more of a clay loam than in the 

 swamp, where it is heavy clay. The land west of Poplar River extending for 

 about two miles is higher than that of the eastern portion of the township and 

 is in places sandy and more suitable for agricultural purposes. Approaching the 

 west boundary the country again becomes swampy with poplar ridges extending 

 east and west. The land in the vicinity of the lakes is generally low and swampy. 



The prevailing timber throughout the Township is White Spruce, but in 

 most places too small for merchantable timber, that in the swamps being from two 

 to four inches in diameter, but on parts of the higher ground where it is mixed 

 with poplar, it is from four to ten inches in diameter, and suitable for pulpwood. 

 The poplar ranges from four to ten inches in diameter, but in some places seems 

 to be dying. The timber on the high ground west of Poplar River is larger than 

 elsewhere. Occasionally there are spruce trees twenty inches in diameter. On the 

 point of land extending into the lake on lots 18 and 19, concessions "VT and VII 

 there is Norway pine about fourteen inches in diameter. This is the only 

 place where pine was seen in the township. 



Along the north boundary there are several outcroppings of rock but without 

 indications of mineral. About one and a half miles south of the north boundary 

 and west of Poplar River a considerable area of surface rock was encountered, 

 but as on the north boundary there were no indications of economic mineral. 



I have the honour to be. 



Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



(Signed) Walter Beatty, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 



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

 Toronto. 



