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The country abounds with moose, but as it has been well trapped over by the 

 Indians, there are few evidences of beaver, mink or muskrat. 



Partridges were very plentiful. 



Accompanying this report I beg to submit a plan on mounted paper, of the 

 district in general, a timber plan on tracing linen, and also a copy of field notes, 

 including astronomical observations and magnetic variations. 



I have the honor to be. 

 Sir, 

 Your obedient servant, 



(Sgd.) T. G. Code, 

 ' Ontario Land Surveyor. 



The Honourable the Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto, Ont. 



Appendix No. 25. 

 Survey of the Township of Gill^ District of Algoma. 



Elk Lake, Ont., October 12th, 1913. 



Sir, — Acting under instructions from your Department dated June 7th, 1912, 

 I have completed the survey of the Township of Gill, in the District of Algoma. 

 Herewith I am sending you copies of my field notes, together with a plan of the 

 township on a scale of forty chains to the inch, traverse plans of the lakes and the 

 White Eiver and a timber map of the township. 



With the exception of a comparatively small area of muskeg, on which there is 

 only scattered small spruce and tamarac, and five or six thousand acres of burnt 

 country in the north-west part, the township is well timbered with spruce, poplar, 

 cedar, and white birch, and in the southeasterly part by Banksian pine. There is 

 very little milling timber, but a large amount of valuable pulp wood. 



About half the area of this township is more or less swampy. While this 

 swampy land does not afford much encouragement for early settlement, most of it 

 will, I believe, eventually make good farming land, as it will be comparatively easily 

 drained, the creeks and rivers all having considerable fall and strong currents, thus 

 affording good outlets for the water. 



The land most available for present settlement is that included in the burnt 

 country previously mentioned. This land is practically all dry and of good quality 

 and easily cleared. Most of the timber formerly standing on it is now lying on the 

 ground, the trees in falling having taken the roots with them. There is only a 

 'scattered second growth of hazel and other shrubs, with some spruce, poplar, birch 

 and Banksian pine not exceeding two inches in diameter. 



Generally speaking, lots one to twelve in all of the concessions south of the 

 National Transcontinental Eailway are not desirable farming land. In concessions 

 owe to three these lots are largely sand and gravel hills with granite boulders, while 

 some are swampy and a few muskeg. From the third concession to the railway they 

 form the most swampy part of the township. West of the side line between lots 

 twelve and thirteen, though, there is some muskeg and not a little swamp ; there is a 

 large quantity of very desirable farming land. 



