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The shore line is in general rocky and somewhat similar in appearance to 

 the Muskoka region. 



The shores and territory inland are well timbered with hemlock, birch, cedar 

 and spruce, with scattered red pine and occasional ridges of hard maple. This 

 region having been within the area of lumber operations, all the more marketable 

 pine and hemlock timbers have been taken off. Up to the present, fire has ap- 

 parently done no damage in the immediate vicinity of Cache Lake. The timber 

 on the larger islands is similar to that on the main land. 



Accompanying this report are (a) a plan on scale 10 chains to one inch, (b) 

 a plan on scale 4 chains to one inch, showing all traverse lines with courses and 

 distances and other details, (c) field notes of entire survey, 



We have the honour to be, Sir. 



Your obedient servants, 



(Sgd.) Speight and Van Nostrand, 



Ontario Land Surveyors. 



The Honourable the Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto, Ont. 



Appendix No. SJf. 



Survey of the Dawson Road Lots District of Thunder Bay. 



LiSTOWEL, December 3nd, 1912. 



Sir, — In pursuance with your instructions, dated June 17th, 1912, I beg 

 leave to report the following: On July 8th I left Listowel and proceeded to Port 

 Arthur by steamer and rail via Port McNicoll, and arrived there on July 11th. I 

 procured my outfit and most of my party at Port Arthur and started the work 

 on July 13th. I had some difficulty in getting a cook to start the job ; when you 

 try to hire a cook and he finds he has to cook with an open fire, he generally gets 

 drunk, and when the time comes and the train pulls out he is missimg. I started 

 the work by taking an observation on the bank of the Kaministiquia River and 

 from this point I traversed the Dawson Road east and west. From Kaministiquia 

 west I traversed the- location according to the field notes, and when I got to the 

 side road between Lots 30 and 31 I found that I was four chains and forty-four 

 links north of the road. From this point west I traversed the road as it was built. 

 A good many buildings were going up along the road and settlers were all using 

 the old road as the boundary between concessions A and B. The old Dawson Road 

 is in good condition from Lot 1 to Lot 80 at the Ascondage River, and if the under- 

 brush and small trees were removed and the bridges and culverts rebuilt this 

 road could be used for all kinds of traffic, pack trains, wa-ggons or autos; one day 

 last July an auto went from Port Arthur to Kaministiquia on the Dawson Road, a 

 distance of 20 miles. Finlanders are the principal settlers in this section and they 

 seem to be hard-working and industrious, most of their log buildings are very neat- 



