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places where Cap Allan had them set
last year, and be must be a [reminder?]
to alter it [10' lines/] -- Charley sends a cheque
of $40 for you to commence work with [?or]
Wiarton - a cheque for $40, is here from the
Dept for your September salary, both of
which you can get as you pass here -

Get what eggs you can [besther?]
31st at Pigeon Island of you think.
it necessarry, to stay till then, but do
not lose sight of your being in Wiarton
in time for work there

All will here [?] [?]
Brother Lewis who is very [loco?] [?]
and I do not think will ever [securers?]

I am yours many thank

Samuel Wilmot

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Newcastle Oct 29/87

Mr. Tilton Esq
Deuputy Minister of Fisheries
Ottawa

Sir

I beg to report herein
the result of my inspection of “Dennies
Dam” on the Saugeen River and the
“Fish-pass” built there for the purpose
of conveying fish over that dam.

The Saugeen River is a
large stream and flows through
an extensive section of the Country,
with several branches, and enters
Lake Huron at the Town of Southhampton.
About three miles above its entrance
into the Lake, a dam has been built
across the river to raise a head of water
for driving a flouring mill.-- This
dam forms a sufficient barrier to
prevent many of the fish from passing
up river to their extensive feeding,
and breeding grounds in the main
River, and many of its branches.

This dam is known as “Dennies
Dam” and from representations made
to your Department some years back
numerous inhabitants along the

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