1917-18 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. 



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The Trunk Road between Sudbury and Azilda on the main line of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway was. dragged and improved where required. A new road was 

 cut out from a point on the Canadian Northern Railway about a mile north of 

 Milnet Station westerly to the Sellwood Mines near the Village of Sellwood. This 

 road was cut out, culverts built, and made suitable for winter traffic. The road 

 was constructed with a view to letting the people in the vicinity of the Sellwood 

 Mines have access to the main line of the Canadian Northern Railway. 



A waterway into West Shining Tree, gold mining district, was improved 

 by the construction of 3 dams to regulate the water for navigation purposes. 



$20,506.54 was expended on these roads. 



Spanish River Lumber Company's mills and yard at Cutler, the western terminus of 

 the Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie trunk road. 



Sault Ste. AIaeie Trunk Road, Sault Ste. Makie to Algoma Mills — Work 

 Performed During the Seasox of 1918. 



On the above road, which has been constructed during the last six years, very 

 little new work was required this season. The road has been surfaced with 

 rock or gravel almost throughout the entire length, 102 miles, Soo to Algoma 

 Mills. The road still, however, requires repairing and re-surfacing in places. 

 During February and March of last season, 1,265 cubic yards of gravel was used 

 in surfacing about 21/^ miles along the Mississauga River in the Township of_ 

 Thompson. 



The balance of the season's work on this road was chiefly in maintenance 

 or repair work from the Soo to Algoma Mills. Early in the season the western 

 part of the road, from the Soo to Garden River was re-surfaced with crushed 

 rock, 578 tons were required; the balance of the road was kept in repair by an 

 overseer employed to patrol the road from end to end, make such repairs as were 



