1913-13 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. 57 



Appendix No. 20. 

 SuEVEY OF Township Outlines, District of Algoma. 



Sault Ste. MakiEj Ont., November 4th, 1912. 



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

 outlines of certain new townships north of Hobon Junction on the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway in the District of Algoma, made by us under instructions from 

 your Department dated May 14th, 1912. 



We arrived at Loch Alsh on the morning of May 18th, with men and supplies 

 ready to commence and completed our work on July 10th. On the morning of 

 May 19th we moved up Wabatongashene Lake some eight or nine miles to the 

 place of beginning and commenced our survey late in the afternoon of the same 

 day. 



Commencing at the 144th mile post on O.L.S. Niven's base line on the shore 

 of Wabatongashene Lake we ran due west astronomically nine miles, marking 

 our posts in Arabic figures on the east side, "145'' up to "153" planting one post 

 at the end of each mile. At this point we connected our line with a post planted 

 by O.L.S. Stewart as the approximate north-east angle of Township 51 by a line. 



We then ran north astronomically from this 153rd mile post 24 miles and 

 planted posts at the end of each mile until the 6th mile and north of that point 

 at the end of each mile and a half. At the end of the 147th mile on the base 

 line we ran due north astronomically six miles more or less, planting posts at the 

 end of each mile and marking them on the south side in Roman numerals with 

 the number of miles the said posts are north of the production of Niven's base 

 line. From the end of the 6th mile on our 1st meridian we ran aline due east 

 astronomically nine miles, planting posts at the end of each mile and a half and 

 numbering them on the west side. From a point on our 1st meridian 15 miles 

 north of the 153rd mile post on the production of Niven's base line, we ran our 

 3rd base line east astronomically to Oba Lake, and from the end of the 24th mile 

 post on our 1st meridian we ran our 4th base line east -astronomically to Oba 

 River. From the end of the 9th mile on our 2nd base line we then ran our 

 2nd meridian due north astronomically 18 miles, planting posts at the end of each 

 mile and a half. We then produced our 3rd and 4th base lines east astronomically 

 to a distance of nine miles net east of our 2nd meridian. 



At the angles of each of the tovmships and at the eastern ends of our 3'rd 

 and 4th base lines along side the wooden post we have planted an iron post, one 

 and one half inches in diameter and three feet long, a tube, forged at the top, 

 pointed at the bottom and painted red and in each case marked with the names of 

 the adjacent townships with a cold chisel. At all crossings of the Algoma Central" 

 Railway we have tied our lines with the mileage on the railway as shown us by the 

 Company's Engineers. 



Physical Ftiatures. 



The entire area which we covered with those lines south of the north end of 

 Oba Lake was very rugged and for the most part covered very thickly with small 

 birch and poplar. Abrupt granite hills thickly covered with large boulders and 

 gravel, run in all directions, divided by very deep valleys. To the north of Oba 

 Lake the country slopes to comparatively level clay land and easily drained muskegs 



