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closed down for the season one and one-half miles had been cleared and brushed 

 and graded and a quarter of a mile of gravel put down. Many of the old log 

 culverts were removed and the new corrugated metal ones were not installed, this 

 for the reason that the shipment of culverts did not arrive until the work had 

 stopped. These culverts are stored at Dayton Station. 



Culverts of corrugated metal were placed between Desbarats and McLennan 

 and equipped with concrete ends. One-half mile of this section which was 

 in bad condition was regraded and gravelled. The remainder of the section is in 

 very good state of repair and it was decided not to do anything with it for the 

 present. Three miles of road immediately west of McLennan's, being mile 24, 25 

 and 26 east of the Sault, were rebuilt, graded and gravelled. Several bad grades 

 were cut down. Metal culverts were installed throughout, all with concrete ends. 



A 40 ft. steel bridge on piled concrete abutments and with concrete floor was 

 erected across the Shewfelt Creek. The embankments were equalized making an 

 easy approach at each end. 



At Bruce Mines a reinforced concrete culvert 6x8 was built two miles east 

 of Bruce Mines. Three-quarters of a mile of road was graded and one-third of this 

 surfaced with trap rock, 10 ft. wide and with gravel shoulders. This work is not 

 yet finished. Culverts are on the ground ready for installation. 



In this section a new route for the Trunk Eoad was arranged through the 

 Town by agreemenlt with the Council. The original survey ran north of the Town 

 and involved construction of one and one-half miles of new road over boulder 

 imbedded ground. The revised location goes through the centre of the town and 

 requires construction of only half a mile of new road and this of an easy nature, 



A road was cleared, built and graded across Campement d'Ours Island, in- 

 tended, in conjunction with the ferry to be established, to furnish the settlers on 

 St. Joseph Island an access to the mainland at Kensington Point and then with 

 the Trunk Road at Desbarats, by means of road one and a half miles in length, 

 on which work was done during the present season and w'^hich is subsequently 

 referred to. This road, one and three-quarter miles in length, ran for its entire 

 length through very heavy bush and over ground covered in part with boulders. 

 On its completion at the end of June, operations were commenced on the building 

 of a road on a new location between Thessalon and Nesterville. The new location 

 is three and a half miles in length as against five^miles for the old road and will 

 be when finished, of a much superior nature, its bed being composed of sand and 

 gravel as against clay for the old road. Two and a half miles of this section was 

 cleared and grubbed, the balance being already open. One and one half miles 

 have been graded and one mile gravelled; the rest being left uncompleted. In 

 addition two miles of road immediately west of Nesterville, built during the season 

 of 1913, was gravelled. 



Four and a half miles of road was built and graded along the Mississaga 

 River from a point eight (8) miles west of Blind River to a point twelve and a 

 half (I2V2) miles west. On this section metal culverts were installed, all with 

 concrete ends. The balance of the culverts to complete the road to Iron Bridge 

 are on the ground. This camp also placed concrete ends on twelve (12) culverts 

 installed during 1913, on the portion of road to the east. The road leading from 

 Desbarats to Kensington Point, li/o miles in length, was improved, by clearing 

 along the sides, regrading and gravelling. Half a mile of gravel was laid and 

 three-eighths of a mile through swamp was raised by filling in. Numerous boulders 

 were removed from the southerly half mile of the road. 



