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The work has been continued since the close of the season and at the present 

 time gravel is being drawn, and timber taken out for culverts and bridges. Abund- 

 ance of good cedar for the construction of culverts is available along the road. 

 Two car loads of corrugated iron culverts have been shipped on the road ready for 

 use as soon as grading is resumed. The road has been well graded and good stone 

 or concrete culverts constructed as far as Duchesney Creek. West of Ducliesney 

 Creek for about one mile the road has been well graded, although it will require 

 to be surfaced with gravel in places where the soil is light and sandy. 



Heretofore there has been no means of communication by road between North 

 Bay and Sturgeon Falls, the distance being about 22 miles. When this road is 

 completed the farmers in the vicinity of Sturgeon Falls and the small villages 

 west, will be able to market their produce in North Bay. The road will also open 

 up a large area of good agricultural land in the western part of the Reserve. 

 The eastern part of the Eeserve along the road is broken and rocky in places. 



North Bay and Mattawa Trunk Road. 



The trunk road between North Bay and Mattawa, the length of which is 50 

 miles, was constructed and graded during the season of 1913. As there was a 

 great deal of traffic on this road it was badly cut up during the wet seasons, spring 

 and fall, and it was found necessary to re-grade and surface with stone and gravel 

 a large portion of this road. 



A stone crusher was set up near 'Callander early in January, 1914, and was 

 continued at work throughout the entire winter up to about the latter part of May. 

 Crushed stone was hauled on to the road between Callander and North Bay for a 

 distance of about 6l^ miles. Six thousand cubic yards of crushed rock was spread 

 on the road for a width of 12 feet between North Bay and Callander. It was well 

 rolled with a ten ton roller. 



Between Callander and Mattawa 13 miles of old road was re-surfaced with 

 coarse gravel. Through the village of Bonfield, where the road was very narrow, 

 it was widened by removing the large boulders from the side and well surfaced 

 with gravel. The road between Callander and Mattawa is now in first-class 

 condition. Most of the old culverts were replaced by cedar or corrugated iron 

 ones. The ditches in many instances had to be deepened. 



The old wooden bridge across the Amable du Ford River, in the Township of 

 Calvin, was replaced by a substantial bridge, built on concrete piers and abutments, 

 with steel girders; the length of this bridge is 130 feet. 



The road is now in first-class condition and the distance, 50 miles, can be 

 made with an automobile in about three hours. 



Callander to Powassan Road. 

 From Callander south to Powassan, a distance of about 12 miles, there was an 

 old road with bad grades, badly drained in places and impassable for heavy traffic. 

 This road was widened out, ditched, graded and surfaced with gravel in places, 

 for a distance of 9 miles. The road passes through a country in which there is 

 considerable good agricultural land but broken in places by rocky ridges. The 

 settlers have heretofore, had a good deal of difficulty in reaching a market for 

 their produce, either at North Bay, Powassan or Callander. During the spring 

 and fall of the year the road was always in a bad condition. It was necessary to 

 cut down many of the hills in order to improve the grade. Good substantial cedar 



