1916-17 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FOEESTS AND MINES. 133 



Township of Gorliam: 



Cut out and graded road between Lots 6 and 7, across Concessions 2, 3 and 

 part of 4; 214 miles. 



Township of O'Connor: 



Cut out and graded road across Lots 4, 5 and 6, Concession 1; II/2 miles. 

 Ditched and graded road between Lots 6 and 7, across Concessions 5, G and 7; 

 2% miles. 



Township of Ware: 



Cut out and partially graded road across Concession 3, Lots 9, 10, 11 and 12; 

 2 miles. 



Arthur Street, Township of Paipoonge: 



Re-graded and gravelled road across Lots 25 to 30, 2I/2 miles, and cut out, 

 graded and surfaced witK gravel in places, new road across Lots 31, 32 and 33, Con- 

 cession 1 ; 1^/4 miles. 



ROADS IN KENOEA DISTRICT. 



Number of miles of road partly cat out, ditched and graded 141/2 



of which 4% miles was surfaced with gravel. 



Number of iron culverts placed 18 



Number of stone and wooden culverts built 19 



Number of bridges repaired 2 



Work in this district was commenced early in June in constructing and re- 

 pairing roads in the Township of Pellatt, north of Keewatin; 3^/4 miles of new 

 road was constructed and 2 bridges repaired. These roads are cut out, graded and 

 half a mile surfaced with gravel. 



The balance of the work was performed in the ' agricultural sections east and 

 west of Dry den on the Canadian Pacific Railway. In this section of the country, 

 extending from Vermilion Station east to Dyment Station, a distance of 56 miles 

 along the Canadian Pacific Railway, there is to be found good sections of agri- 

 cultural land, broken in places. The soil varies from a light coloured clay land 

 to clay loam and sandy loam. The best section is located along the railway in 

 the vicinity of Dry den Station and extending west to Eagle River, a distance of 

 17 miles, and east of Wabigoon 13 miles. In this section there are fairly large 

 areas of good agricultural land, part of which has been settled on for nearly twenty 

 years. ]\Iany of the settlers have made good progress. A good proportion of the 

 country was burnt and re-burnt over many years ago and is now grown uj) with a 

 small second growth timber, jack pine, poplar, birch and spruce. The land, in 

 many places, is easily cleared. 



Good colonization roads have been built in several of the townships and along 

 the railway between the different stations. Very few miles of gravel roads have as 

 yet been built and as the soil is chiefly clay, the roads, during the wet seasons of 

 the year, become badly rutted and unfit for traffic. It is difficult to procure gravel 



