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REPOIIT OF THE 



No. 3 



Current and Gore Bay trunk road through the Townships of Rowland, Allan and 

 Gordon, 7% miles was widened out, ditched, graded, and surfaced with gravel. 

 Eight culverts and 4 small wooden bridges and 1 small stone bridge were con- 

 structed. Six thousand yards of gravel was used in surfacing this section of 

 the road, and 4,000 yards on the Little Current and Manitowaning section. 



On the Little Current and Manitowaning road 8 culverts were constructed. 

 The worst parts of this road have been repaired. The very best of road material 

 was used as it is found in great abundance in many places along this road. The 

 wooden culverts were made out of cedar and also the abutments for bridges where 

 stone was not used. 



Remunerative winter work, (Northern Ontario. 



DISTRICT OF THUNDER BAY. 



In the Vicinity of Port Arthur and Fort William. 



Operations were started in this district about the middle of March, gravelling 

 and re-gravelling parts of the International Highway between Port Arthur, Fort 

 William and Pigeon River, locally known as the "Scott" Highway. The work 

 was commenced on the eastern boundary of the Township of Neebing, a couple of 

 miles east of the Prison Farm and portions of this road, which had not been 

 gravelled the previous seasons, or where the gravelling done last season was not 

 sufficiently heavy, were gravelled or re-gravelled this season, as far south as the 

 International boundary at Pigeon River. The ditches, where they were found 

 insufficient to carry off the water, were deepened and widened. Several new 

 culverts were constructed. The worst grades on the road were cut down and 

 at Horn Hill, where a mountain slide carried away part of the bed of the road 

 into the Pigeon River, the road was re-constructed. Heavy rains of the previous 



