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INTRODUCTION. 



The Porcupine gold area, which for the past four 

 years has attracted much attention, is situated on the 

 Hudson Bay slope of northern Ontario. The latitude of 

 Niven's First Base Line of 1899, which runs through the 

 centre, forming the south boundary of Tisdale and Whitney, 

 is 48° 27' 54" ; consequently the area is somewhat farther 

 south than the Canada-United States boundary in Manitoba 

 and other western provinces. The camp is in the Temis- 

 kaming judicial district. Lying along the southern fringe 

 of the great clay belt of Northern Ontario, it adjoins a 

 prospective farming country. In this belt many townships 

 have been laid out in six or nine-mile squares and subdivided 

 into concessions and lots ; in the gold area itself and in the 

 adjoining country to the north, many half lots containing 

 160 acres each have been granted to veterans as homesteads. 



During the last two years there has been little extension 

 of the gold-bearing area beyond what was known in 1910. 

 The discoveries of Hollinger and Wilson of 1909, now the 

 Hollinger and Dome mines respectively, still remain the 

 most important that have been made, while Tisdale is by far 

 the most important township. 



Ingress to the; Area. 



A branch line of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario 

 railway has been constructed from Iroquois Falls (on the 

 main line), in a southwesterly direction to the town of 

 Timmins, a distance of 33^ miles.* Timmins by railway 

 is 485 miles distant from Toronto. 



A number of townsites have been established in the area. 

 The most important of these are : Porcupine, South Porcu- 

 pine and Lakeview, situated on Porcupine lake ; Schumacher, 

 on Pearl lake ; Timmins, west of Miller lake ; and 

 Mattagami, on the Mattagami river. 



Elevation of the Area. 



In elevation the area averages about 1,000 feetf above 

 mean sea level. In this respect it is similar to Cobalt, which 



0.621 mile=l kilometre. f 3.28 feet = l metre. 



