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be used in connection with hauling of hard wood to the Station for fuel purposes. 

 ^Thirty new culverts were placed in this road and 1,750 yards of gravel used in 

 re-surfacing. , 



$13,722.79 was expended on this work. 



North Bay to Sudbury Trunk Road — District of Nipissing. 



Operations were started on this work early in January, 1918, Near Warren 

 Station on the Canadian Pacific Railway the road was re-surfaced with gravel east 

 and west of this point for a distance of 9 miles, west as far as Liberty's Bridge about 

 41^ miles and east about the same distance, 7,170 cubic yards of gravel were 

 used in surfacing this section. About the same time a bridge was constructed over 

 the Veuve Eiver about % of a mile we.-t of Markstay Station. The bridge was 

 built of cedar piles with white pine stringers and floored with tamarac planking. 



A settler's buildings, Temiskaming. 



A section of the road was re-gravelled near Wahnapitae Station on the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway, The road from Wahnapitae Station to Sudbury was dragged and 

 rolled with a 12 ton roller, after having it re-surfaced in places with crushed rock. 

 During the summer season the road from North Bay to Sturgeon Falls was dragged. 

 It was found, however, owing to the very wet season, difficult to keep this°road 

 in repair. That is, a section near Meado\vsid^, where the road passes through flat 

 country, the subsoil of which is quicksand. This section of the road will be re- 

 quired to be re-surfaced with gravel, which, unfortunately, cannot be found in the 

 vicinity, before it will make a good permanent road. The road between Coniston 

 Station and Sudbury has been dragged and rolled on two different occasions during 

 the season and re-surfaced in a few places where it had become rutted. 



Early in October a land slide occurred about 2 miles west of "Warren on the 

 bank of the Veuve River. About 260 feet in length of the road close to the bank 

 dropped from 5 to 10 feet. This was owing to the washing out from under the 



