1917-18 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. 133 



Township of Mount joy: 



Road South side of Mattagami River, scow at crossing repaired and location 

 altered, 3 miles graded, 7 culverts built, 1,917 yds. ditched, 63 rods corduroy laid. 

 One bridge built 16ft. by 60 ft. and 300 yds. surfaced with gravel. 



Road East side of Mattagami River, % inile graded, 400 yds. ditched, 2,330 

 cu. yds. earth fill, 3 culverts built. 



Township of Tisdale: 



Trunk Road, South Porcupine to Timmins, 4 miles repaired, 2 miles surfaced 

 with rock and gravel. 



Road from Golden City to South Porcupine via Pottsville on North side of 

 Porcupine Lake, 1 bridge built 16 ft. by 90ft., approaches and piers filled with 

 rock, 1,000 ft. of corduroy 8 ft. wide surfaced with rock, 200 ft. of corduroy laid, 

 4 large culverts built, 1 mile graded, 1,400 yds. ditched and % mile of road repaired. 



Township of Whitney: 



Road from Golden City to South Porcupine along T. & N. 0. Railway, li/4 

 miles surfaced with rock and gravel and 3 culverts built. 



ELK LAKE-GOWGANDA ROAD. 



A satisfactory improvement on this road without a large expenditure is very 

 difficult, the traffic is not extensive but the length of the road, some 28 or 30 miles, 

 results in the drawing of exceedingly heavy loads, which, with narrow tires, cut 

 the road down to a boulder bottom making travel upon it rough, uncomfortable 

 and disagreeable. 



First class gravel for road building is very scarce along the route of the road, 

 so that no work approaching a permanent nature is possible without the use of 

 orushed rock. 



The work done upon the road was carried out under great difficulty owing 

 to the labour shortage and unsuitable weather conditions. Several miles of the 

 road were graded and surfaced with gravel, special attention given to drainage. 

 Many of the old wooden culverts were replaced with steel culverts. The old bridge 

 at Long Point was replaced by a smaller bridge and an extensive fill. At the 

 22 mile post, the old culvert with corduroy approaches was renewed and approaches 

 filled in. The bridge at Miller Creek was replaced and proper approaches made. 



Other work consisted of re-surfacing the worst places on the road and re- 

 pairing the corduroy. 



SWASTIKA-KIRKLAND LAKE ROAD. 



General repairs were made along this road, about % of a mile was graded 

 and 1% miles surfaced with crushed rock. Twenty-four wooden culverts were 

 replaced with steel culverts and the Lake Shore hill was reduced by the removal 

 of about 350 cu. yds. of rock. 



HAILEYBURY-NEW LISKEARD ROAD. 



About 3,000 ft. of this road was graded and 7,000 ft. of water-bound Macadam 

 was laid. Four new steel culverts were placed and on other parts of the road slight 

 repairs were made in the way of grading and cleaning side ditches. 



