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Gravelled Trunk Roads in the Vicinity of Matheson as follows: 



Main Street, Matheson, to junction of Porcupine road and trunk road. . 1,518 cu. yds. 



From junction of Porcupine road along trunk road 583 " 



From Wah Tay Beg Station to junction of townJine between Taylor and 



Carr along trunk road 1,320 " 



From junction of trunk road and Porcupine road along Porcupine road 1,340 " 



From Black River bridge, Matheson, east along Munro road 5,280 " 



From Munro road north on townline between Beatty and Carr 110 " 



From railway crossing at Matheson along trunk road south 163 " 



Town of Matheson main streets 576 " 



Approximate!}^ 10,890 cu. yds. of gravel was hauled on to the trunk roads 

 leading into the Town of Matheson, surfacing 614 miles of road. 



Taylor and Stock Townships : 



Built bridge across Driftwood Eiver on townline between Taylor and Stock; 

 one pile bridge with two 60 ft. spans and one 16 ft. span at each end, to replace old 

 bridge burnt August, 1916. 



Play fair Township: 



Cut Avinter road through S. I/2 Lot 5, Concession 6, 20 ft. wide, 880 yards, to 

 enable settlers to get to Eamore Station. Built pile bridge across Black Eiver on 

 line between Concessions 5 and 6, Lot 3 ; two 60 ft, spans and two 16 ft. spans. 



Benoit Toivnsiiip : 



Built pile bridge on line between Concessions 1 and 2, 170 ft. long, across 

 White Clay Eiver, at Bourkes Station on the T. & N. 0. Ey. Eepaired Black 

 Eiver bridge in Town of ^latheson. 



TEMISKAMING DISTEICT. 



Vicinity of Cochrane, East and West. 



Work was commenced early in May repairing roads burnt out the previous 

 summer. Twenty small ditching, burning and cutting of right-of-way contracts 

 were let, in the Townships of Fournier, Clute, Lamarche, Calder, Newmarket, Fox, 

 Shackleton, McCart and Newmarket. Besides these small contracts, five small 

 bridges were constructed, two repaired, 14 culverts constructed, and roads re-graded 

 and repaired. Four and one-half miles of new road was cut out and grubbed. 



During the winter season a camp was at work at Barber's Bay, on the Porcu- 

 pine Branch of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Eailway, taking out bridge 

 timber and piles : 228,500 ft. B.M. of pine was taken out and cut into bridge timber 

 and lumber, and 130 bridge piles taken out. 



The bridge and dam across the Frederickhouse Eiver at Connaught was com- 

 pleted. The dam and bridge has a length of 547 ft. The dam, as now constructed, 

 is a series of cribs filled with stone and faced with hewn timber ; it is very sub- 

 stantial. We are now able to regulate the depth of water in the river above the 



