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see that it is extinguished. Considerable danger has existed from carelessness in 

 the burning of ties that have been used up and pulled out of the track, and there- 

 fore it was thought expedient to put a travelling ranger on to see that care was 

 exercised where fire was used for this purpose. 



On the Canadian Northern, from Port Arthur to Rainy River there were also 

 rangers placed, and no fires occurred. 



On the Teniiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway we had a staff of rangers 

 from a short distance north of North Bay through the Temagami Forest Reserve. 

 On this line the rangers follow the trains out of their districts or divisions with 

 speeders, and great care is exercised as the railway runs through a dense body of 

 pine. No fires occurred on this railway during the past season. 



From Latchford north a considerable distance no firerangers are required, as 

 the railway travels through a settled region. 



Further up rangers are placed again in sufficient numbers to have close super- 

 vision of fclie railway and to see that the regulations are observed, and if any fires 

 occur to extinguish them immediately. 



As before stated, there were on railways during the past summer 193 fire- 

 rangers ajid 9 chiefs, making a total staff of 203. 



Cullers' Examtxations, 



Cullers* examinations were held at Kenora and North Bay. Twenty-two can- 

 didates were successful at these examinations and were granted certificates authoriz- 

 ing them to act as cullers. 



(For list of cullers who passed at the above examinations see Appendix 32, 

 page 77.) 



(For complete list of licensed cullers see Minister's report for 1911.) 



Crown Surveys. 



The following Crown surveys have been undertaken this year. 



Insitructions were given for subdivision of the following townships: 



Township of Drayton, at Sioux Lookout, on the National Transcontinental 

 Railway, in the district of Kenora. 



Township of Mathieu, in the district of Rainy River. 



Townships of McMillan, Mulloy, Gill, Studholme, Stoddart, Kendall, Way, 

 and parts of the townships of Hanlan and Casgrain, in the district of Algoma. 



Townships of Shackleton and Sargeant and parts of the townships of Nansen 

 and Fauquier, in the district of Temiskaming. 



Also for resurveys of parts of the townships of Pardee and Crooks, and the 

 Dawson Road Lots, in the district of Thunder Bay, and Mattawan in the district 

 of Nipissing. 



Instructions were given for subdivision of the following townships: 

 ship outlines in the districts of Algoma, Nipissing, and Sudbury, the great majority 

 of this work being along the lines of the Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway, 

 north of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and along the line of the Canadian Northern 

 Ontario Railway between Sudbury and Oba Junction. 



Insitructions were issued for- survey of timber berths in the township of 

 Mulligan, district of Temiskaming, also timber berth " 0," in the district of 

 Temiskaming. 



