«8 KEPORT OF THE No. 3 



With regard to fish and game beg leave to say that this section is well sup- 

 plied with rabbits and partridge, and a few wolves and porcupine. We tried the 

 Matawin Kiver and also the smaller streams but were not successful in getting any 

 fish. The section is also well supplied with wild fruit, such as raspberries, straw- 

 berries, cranberries, and in one place we found quite a number of wild plunis. 



I • have the honour to be, 

 Sir, 

 Your obedient servant, 



(Signed) E. D. Bolton, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 



The Honourable the Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto, Ont. 



Appendix No. 35. 



"Re-survey of Parts of the Townships of Blake and Crooks District of 



Thunder Bay. 



Fort William, Ont., 7th April, 1913. 



Sir, — In accordance with your instructions of the 7th November last, I have 

 made a re-survey of certain parts of the Townships of Blake and Crooks. 



As there was urgent need of certain lines in Crooks, I made a flying trip 

 there, afterwards returning to the city for more men and outfit. Then, starting 

 in Blake, I worked south, cleaning up the work as I went. 



I commenced by re-opening two miles of the resurvey lines of O.L.S. Miac- 

 dougail, and then ran south between sections 9 and 10, using this as a base line. 

 Evidences of the old lines were very hard to find, and on this line between sec- 

 tions 9 and 10, I ran almost to the south limit of the township before finding any 

 satisfactory evidences of the old lines to check by. The same is true to a great 

 extent of the east and west lines, though once or twice in spruce swamps we found 

 good evidences of the line. 



A great number of comparatively recent compass lines have been run in 

 Blake township, oftentimes blazed, and tending to confusion. At one point, too, 

 I found a line with very old blazes, which, while not agreeing closely with our 

 north and south chainage on our base line, I was inclined to accept it, until after 

 opening it up for over a mile, I found it swung gradually to the south. In Crooks, 

 too, I found lines well marked with old blazes, which were apparently run to 

 mark mining claims which were never taken up. These lines, when first starting 

 in, tended to create confusion and mislead. 



A great number of lines had to be first run as trial lines and then rerun and 

 opened up on the true line, after checking up on blazes two miles and more from 

 the starting point. 



