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in the northern parts of the district, bijt throughout the 

 more southerly wooded portions there, are great possibilities 

 in this direction. At Fort Churchill I have seen a few 

 hardy garden vegetables, grown for local use, but at York,- 

 120 miles farther south, many varieties grow luxuriantly; 

 and I believe that at Moose. Factory and other southern 

 points almost all kinds of farm produce have been raised 

 successfully. Eeyond a doubt, there are millions of acres 

 of agricultural lands between the shores of the bay and the 

 height of land to the south of it. 



III. Mineral Products. 



Of these little can yet be said excepting as to prospects. 

 Many valuable minerals have been sighted in various parts 

 of the territory; but as yet no systematic prospecting has 

 been undertaken, and with few exceptions, therefore, no 

 reliable information is available as to qualities or quantities 

 of minerals discovered. 



Iron Ores are known to occur in several localities, notably 

 along the east main coast and the adjoining islands on the 

 west coast of Ungava Bay, also on the south shore of Hudson 

 Strait and upon the Mattagami River. 



Oalena is known to exist in workable quantities at Rich- 

 mond Grulf and Little Whale River, a few tons of ore having 

 been mined near the Hudson's Bay Company's post at the 

 latter place. Dr. Bell reports assays of two samples of this 

 ore as yielding 5.104 and 12.03 ounces of silver to the ton. 



Oold and Silver are also reported by Dr. Bell to have been 

 found in small quantities upon the east main coast, near 

 Great Whale River and Dog Island; also on the west coast 

 south of Rankin Inlet, where a large area of the Huronian 

 or Keewatin schists occurs. Again, both metals were dis- 

 covered in small quantities in samples obtained by the 

 Doctor from one of the most northerly of the Ottawa Islands. 



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