B6 EEPOliT (JF THE No. 3 



With the exception of about one thousand acres of recently burned country 

 and possibly two or three times that area of open muskeg and beaver meadow, 

 these lots are all thickly timbered mostly with second growth poplar, white birch, 

 banksian pine and spruce up to eight inches in diameter, but there is besides a 

 large amount of valuable timber and pulp wood. Koughly estimated about half 

 the area surveyed in Maisonville and one-third that in Benoit is covered with 

 valuable timber, spruce, cedar, white birch, and poplar up to eighteen inches in 

 diameter, and some pitch pine large enough to be useful. The best of the timber 

 is in that part of Maisonville north of the height of land. The location of the 

 various kinds of timber and open country is shown on the timber maps and in the 

 field notes accompanying this report. 



There are nine lakes, or parts of lakes, in that part of Maisonville which I 

 have surveyed, several of these south of the height of land being deep and clear. 

 and apparently containing many fish, principally pike and pickerel. The largest 

 lake in the township is Wolf Lake, north of the height of land. The lake is 

 muddy and shallow; being probably nowhere more than about six or eight feet 

 deep. The township of Benoit contains no lake except a small comer of Butler 

 Ivake on the western boundary. The only considerable body of water in this 

 township is the Black River, which enters the township at the north-easterly angle 

 of lot one, concession one, and flows northerly close to the eastern boundary of the 

 township to the middle of concession five, when it turns westward. In concession 

 four it leaves the township, re-entering it about half a mile farther north. East 

 of the township it is apparently joined by a large creek or branch, as it has a 

 greater body of water after re-entering than before leaving. From its first en- 

 trance to the fifth concession it is only a large creek, never much, if any, more 

 than half a chain wide. It has in many places a good fall and swift current, 

 though its flow is impeded by several beaver dams. From about five chains north 

 of the southerly limit of the fifth concession to the junction with it of the White 

 Clay Eiver in lot six, concession five, it is deep and uniformly about one chain 

 wide and has the same canal-like appearance that it has near the railway at the 

 northern boundary of the township. There is at low water, all the way from 

 concession four to the railway, a wide, clear, nearly flat clay bank, providing 

 unobstructed walking for the whole of that distance. 



Accompanying this report I am sending plans, timber maps and field notes. 



I have the honour to be, 



Sir, 



Your obedient servant. 



(Signed) A. D. Griffin. 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 



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

 Toronto. 



