1916-17 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. 141 



To the Honourable the Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines: — 



SiK, — I beg to recommend that the following amounts be expended in the con- 

 struction of new roads, repairing, grading and ditching of old roads, re-surfacing 

 with stone or gravel of new and old roads, construction of bridges and culverts, and 

 the improvement of waterways in the Districts of Rainy River, Kenora, Port Arthur 

 and Fort William, Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma, Sudbury, Nipissing, Parry Sound, 

 Muskoka, Manitoulin and St. Joseph Islands, during the season of 1918, as follows : 



District of Rainy River : 



In the Rainy River Valley in the construction of new roads in the 

 partly settled townships in the northern part of the valley; the surfacing 

 with gravel of trunk roads now graded, or partly re-surfaced ; the construc- 

 tion or repairing of bridges and culverts $50,000 



District of Kenora : 



Repairing of old roads north and north-west of Keewatin and Kenora ; 

 the continuation of the trunk road paralleling the Canadian Pacific Rail- 

 way east and west of Dryden Station, between Dyment and Eagle River, 

 and the repairing of existing roads between the Canadian Pacific Railway 

 and the National Transcontinental Railway (Canadian Government Rail- 

 way) north-east and north-west of Dryden, and constructing new roads on 

 the Canadian Government Railway • 35,000 



District of Port Arthur : 



Re-surfacing with gravel trunk and main roads; the construction of 

 new roads, north and east of Port Arthur, and the cutting out of a winter 

 road mto the mining section around Duck Lake, north of Schreiber on 

 the Canadian Pacific Railway 40,000 



District West and South-west of Fort William : 



To complete the surfacing with gravel or stone of the International 

 Highway between Fort William and Pigeon River (en route to Duluth), 

 and the construction of new roads and repairing of old roads in the Town- 

 ships of Conmee, O'Connor, Gillies, Lybster, Strange and Pearson, and 

 in the new agricultural sections along the International Highway . . . T . . 40,000 



Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie, and Copper Cliff and Creighton Trunk Roads: 



Surfacing in places with stone and gravel the trunk road between 

 Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie; the construction of new roads in the agri- 

 cultural sections west of Espanola, north of Thessalon, and repairs to old 

 roads ; surfacing a trunk road from Copper Cliff to Creighton Mine .... 45,000 



Manitoulin Island: 



To complete the grading and gravelling of the trunk road between 

 Little Current and Gore Bay, and to grade and gravel a trunk road be- 

 tween Little Current and Manitouaning 15,000 



