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or corrugated iron culverts were placed where required. The road was straightened 

 out in many places. 



The wooden bridge about three-quarters of a mile s'outh of Callander, which 

 had become unsafe for traffic, was replaced by a large stone culvert 8 feet wide, 

 6 feet high and 40 feet long. 



Chisholm Township. 



A branch road was constructed leading from the main trunk road into the 

 Township of Chisholm; 3% miles was cut out and widened, 2 miles of which \vas 

 graded. This road was constructed for the purpose of giving to the settlers in 

 Chisholm a good out-let to a market at Callander or North Bay. Part of the 

 road is through a broken section. The road, however, opens up one of the best 

 agricultural sections in the District of Nipissing. There is still about 21/2 or 3 

 miles of this road to be completed. 



PEMBEOKE AND MATTAWA EOAD. 



(From Pembroke to the Petawawa Military Camp.) 



Number of miles of new road graded 2.0 



Number of miles of old road graded 9.3 



Operations were carried on commencing at the westerly limit of the Town of 

 Pembroke, passing through the Townships of Pembroke, Stafford and Alice to the 

 southern boundary of the Township of Petawawa, a distance of three miles, the 

 remainder being through the Township of Petawawa to the Village of Petawawa 

 on the main line of the Canadian Pacific Eailway, a total distance of 8.3 miles. 



For the first three miles we re-graded the old travelled road, it being nec- 

 essary only to widen a few embankments and raise the grade line in a few places. 

 The soil generally is light and sandy. 



Through the Township of Petawawa we followed the old travelled road with 

 the exception of two diversions, where by keeping adjacent to the north side of the 

 Canadian Pacific Eailway we avoided two level railway crossings in each case, and 

 shortened the distance in all by about 200 feet. About two miles of this was 

 through bush land, through which we cleared a right-of-way forty feet in width, 

 removing stumps, etc., for a width of thirty feet. The first three miles is light 

 sandy soil, making a very dusty road in summer. The remainder is fine gravel, 

 not coarse enough for road metal but will afford a good foundation for a per- 

 manent road. The grading was performed by using scrapers and road grader, and 

 when completed will be practically free from grades, as it runs through a fairly 

 level plain, crossing only one short ravine. 



The only road metal available will be crushed stone, and there is only one 

 out-crop of rock along the road situated about one mile west of the Town of 

 Pembroke. 



On this road there is a considerable amount of traffic in summer months by 

 automobiles, it being used by motorists and others going from Pembroke to the 

 Petawawa Military Camps, and to the mouth of the Petawawa Eiver, where a 

 number of Pembroke citizens have summer cottages. The automobiles cut up the 

 grading on the sandy portion of this road very badly, and it will be advisable to 

 re-surface this road with either coarse gravel or crushed rock. 



