58 EEPORT OF THE No. 3 



Appendix No. 23. 



Survey of the Outlines of the Township of Lowther, Templeton and 

 Talbott, District of Algoma. 



New Liskeard, Ont., October 19th, 1912. 



Sir, — We have the honour to submit the following report on the survey of the 

 outlines of the Townships of Lowther, Templeton and Talbott, in the District of 

 Algoma, made by us under instructions from your Department dated June 26th^ 

 1912. 



Work on this survey was commenced during the last week of July. We 

 started at the south-easterly corner of the Township of Way, which is also the south- 

 westerly corner of the township of Kendall, both of which townships were being 

 subdivided at the same time. From the south-easterly corner of Way we ran a 

 meridian due south astronomically nine miles'; thence west astronomically nine 

 miles. We then brought a line south astronomically nine miles from the south- 

 westerly corner of the Township of Way to intersect the east and west line already 

 run by us. Those lines, with the south boundary of the Township of Way, form 

 the boundaries of the Township of Lowther. From this intersection, which is the 

 south-westerly angle of Lowther Township, a meridian was run south astronomic- 

 ally eighteen miles to intersect the base line run 'by O.L.S. Speight in 1910. From 

 the same point we ran west astronomically nine miles and thence south astronomic- 

 ally eighteen miles to O.L.S. Speight's base line, aJbove mentioned. From the end 

 of the ninth mile on the most westerly meridian run by us we ran east astronomically 

 nine miles to intersect the most easterly meridian which intersected O.L.S. Speight's 

 base line, above mentioned. Those latter lines form the boundaries of the Town- 

 ships of Templeton and Talbott, Talbott being to the south. 



Good substantial squared wooden posts were planted at every mile and a half. 



In no place those posts came in a lake or a stream, so that no witness posts were 



planted. All those posts were properly marked with the mileage number from the 



east and south, from 11/^ M to 9 M, for each township boundary. At the corners 



of the several townships an iron post was planted. Those iron posts, as well as 



the wooden posts at the same corners have marked on them the names of the 



Townships contiguous to the corner at which the post is planted; the names of the 



townships on the post facing in the direction of the respective townships. 



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Physical and Geological Features. 



The country crossed by those lines is on the whole comparatively level, although 

 in most cases sufficiently undulating to afford good drainage at such time when the 

 bush is cleared and ditches dug. 



The only stream of any importance passing through those townships is the 

 Mattawishquia River. Several creeks and small streams drain into this; on the 

 whole, affording fairly good drainage. This river from where it is crossed by the 

 Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway is navigable for canoes to Hearst town 

 and to its outlet on the Missinaibi River, although it is very rough in places. Dur- 

 ing the past summer it was used as a canoe route by the contractors on the Algoma 

 Central and Hudson Bay Railroad from Hearst to where the river crosses the 

 Algoma Central. Although only a distance of about fifty miles by the river, it took 

 several days to traverse it with a loaded canoe, so that as a means of transportation 



