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Appendix No. 36. 



Survey of the Township of Lyon Additional^ District of Thunder Bay. 



LiSTOWEL, October 27th, 1911. 



Sir, — In pursuance with instructions from the Honourable the Minister 

 of Lands, Forests and Mines, dated June 20th, A.D. 1911, to survey an area west 

 of the Township of Lyon in the Thunder Bay District, I beg leave to report tlie 

 following: — 



I left Listowel on July the 8th, and proceeded to Owen Sound where 1 took 

 the Canadian Pacific Railway boat Assiniboia and arrived in Port Arthu/ on the 

 morning of July 10th. On July 12th with six men, outfit and provisions T pro- 

 ceeded by Canadian Pacific Railway to Coglin Station, situate about 53 miles east 

 of Port Arthur, from this point there is an old tote road leading through old 

 Lyon Township to farming location A L 671, the distance being about three 

 and a half miles. From this point I commenced work as per instructions by ex- 

 tending the north boundary two miles west, thence running south, etc. Moi=t 

 of the old posts and bearing trees on the old west boundary were gone. The 

 northerly half of the portion subdivided is mostly rolling and hilly with some 

 small rocky ridges, the southerly half is generally level with some large muskegs 

 and good level spruce land. The shore along Black Bay is very indefinite and 

 hard to define, the land along the shore is sandy and very low, the water forming 

 low sand banks; a strip of land along the shore from two to five chains wide is 

 covered witli small timber and willows and back of this for about twenty chain^; 

 the timber is small and there are numerous muskegs and land very wet as it is 

 nearly down to the level of Black Bay. 



This township is well watered with spring creeks and in all the larger streams 

 brook trout abound. "We found numerous springs of clear water, some of them 

 bubbling out of the ground and very cold. While traA^ersing Black Bay I noticed 

 a tide of about six inches. All the high land with the exception of where it is 

 stony and rocky will be good agricultural land ; the timber and underbrush in 

 the north half is very thick and heavy and the land will be hard to clear; the 

 southerly half will not be so hard and with the exception of a strip along Black 

 Bay will be fairly good land, although most of it will need to be drained. A Mr. 

 Bruner, a German, who is the settler on location A L 635 has about eight acres 

 cleared on the north side of the track and has about five acres under cultivation, 

 oats, garden and potatoes, and the potatoes were a splendid crop, he expected to 

 have about 400 bags. 



The locations A L 678, R 601. have some of the best timber removed, but 

 none of the land is cleared and T saw none ready for cultivation. A L 764 has 

 about two acres cleared, and the land seems good. Location A Tj 561 also has a 

 clearing but none under cultivation. 



Under the head of minerals T bo? leave to report that T found no trace of 

 minerals, there is a high dialbase ridge near the north-west comer of Lot 1, 

 Concession XL This ridge runs almost north-west and south-east; the rock is 

 coarse and compact and upon examination I found no veins or trace of minerals. 



Tender the head of timber T beg leave to report the following: — The kinds of 

 timber found were spruce, cedar, balsam, tamarac, birch and poplar and a few 

 small jack pine. Lots 1 and 2, Concessions X and XI are covered with mixed 



