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Appendix No. 18. 

 Survey op Base and Meridian Lines, District of Alqoma and Thunder Bay. 



Toronto, December 30th, 1912. 



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

 certain township outlines in the Districts of Algoma^and Thunder Bay made by us 

 during the past summer under instructions from your Department, dated the 

 20th of May, 1912, with accompanying projected maps. 



Upon receipt of the instructions, we immediately proceeded to make arrange- 

 ments for supplies. With six men from Toronto and vicinity we left for Cochrane, 

 the terminal of the Timiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway on 4th June, and 

 upon our arrival were joined by ten men from Chapleau and Heron Bay. Three 

 additional men joined the party after the work had been commenced, and this 

 was the maximum force used during the season's operations. 



The work was in charge of T. B. Speight, O.L.S., assisted by John van Nos- 

 trand, O.L.S., and N. A. Burwash, O.L.S. 



From Cochrane we proceeded to Mileage 44, District E, on the National 

 Transcontinental Eailway. 



The instructions give the point of commencement as the north-east angle of 

 the township of Boyce, but as the survey was made in conjunction with the sub^ 

 division of the township of Mulloy, the last-mentioned township being surveyed 

 under instructions from your Department, of even date, it was found necessary 

 to begin the work on the lines adjoining the township of Mulloy in order to avoid 

 the extra moving of supplies and camp outfit. 



A beginning was made on the 13th June at the south-west corner of the 

 township of Mulloy and the boundary between the townships of Shuel-and Mulloy 

 was run north for a distance of nine miles, crossing the centre line of the right of 

 way of the National Transcontinental Eailway, as constructed on the ground, at 

 four miles seventy-one chains and eleven links. This boundary was completed on 

 18th June and the party then proceeded with the subdivision of the township of 

 Mulloy. 



^ On 8th July one half of the party proceeded to the south-west corner of the 

 township of Mulloy and ran the boundary between the townships of McCoig and 

 Kohler, nine miles south. Upon the completion of this line the two parties joined 

 in the township of Mulloy. 



On 16th July the combined parties proceeded to mileage fifty-two of District 

 E., on the National Transcontinental Eailway, and on the following day began 

 to run the boundary between the townships of Burrel and Shuel east from the 

 north-east corner of the township of Boyce. 



This line was completed on the 26th July and was run a full nine miles. It 

 intersected the centre line of the right of way of the National Transcontinental 

 Eailway, as constructed on the ground, at one mile, fifty-one chains and eighty-two 

 links east of the north-east corner of the township of Boyce. It was intersected by 

 the boundary between the townships of Shuel and Mulloy at one chain and eleven 

 links west of its eastern extremity and intersected the last-mentioned boundary 

 at nine miles and seventy-four links. 



The east boundary of the township of Burrell was then run north from the 

 end of the last mentioned line, i.e., from a point one chain and eleven links east 

 of the north-west corner of the towship of Mulloy. 



