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of the road has also been cut down considerably. The road is now in fairly good 

 condition for automobile traffic over this section, which was considered one of 

 the worst sections- on the road between North Bay and Bracebridge. From Utterson 

 the road was diverted westerly to strike the Parry Sound road north of Beatrice; 

 and from the diversion, the road extended southerly, passing through Falkenburg. 

 In this section, the old road was widened, ditched, graded and gravelled in places. 

 From Novar north to Burk's Falls, the road was gravelled in places, graded and 

 ditched; more particularly in the section near Katrine, where there was a bad 

 section, extending over 7 miles. North and south of Burk's Falls, the road 

 was re-constructed in places and graveled. At Sundridge a large stone culvert 

 was constructed, and north of South Eiver Station a bridge was built across the 

 South River, with a span of 47 ft., with stone abutments; and a second bridge, 

 over Black Creek, a tributary of the South Eiver, was constructed with stone 

 abutments, with a span of 23 ft. A stone bridge was also built over a small creek 

 with a deep valley, at the new diversion north of Melissa Station. Immediately 

 north of Huntsville, several small diversions and rock cuts were made, and con- 

 siderable surfacing with gravel done. The road between Bracebridge and North 

 Bay is now in fairly passable condition for automobile traffic, although there 

 still requires considerable surfacing to be done with gravel. North of the diver- 

 sion of the trunk road with the Parry Sound road, north of Beatrice, a rock cut 

 was made near the Skeleton Hill, along the shore of a small lake. This has greatly 

 improved the grade on the road from Eosseau to Bracebridge. It will take a 

 considerable expenditure during the season of 1920 on this road, more particularly 

 between Novar and Bracebridge, to put the road into good condition. 



Between Bracebridge and Gravenhurst, no work was done on the trunk road 

 during this season. It was found, however, that south of Gravenhurst near the 

 Severn Eiver and Washago, the old road, which had been built many years 

 ago, had become badly rutted for want of attention. In this section, extending 

 a distance of over 6 miles, operations were started in September from Severn 

 Bridge, southerly through the village of Washago. The road was regraded, widened 

 in places and brushed out; about 11/^ miles of the road was re-surfaced with 

 crushed rock and gravel. Owing to the wet season, this road was not completed, 

 and the work has since been continued, re-surfacing with crushed rock. 



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Nipissing Road: 



Between Powassan Station on the Grand Trunk Eailway north-westerly to 

 Nipissing Village, a distance of about 10 miles, which was graded two years ago 

 and gravelled in places, was resurfaced in the wjorst places, 2,000 ciibic yards of 

 gravel being used. This work was performed during the winter season. Through- 

 out the summer the road was dragged and kept in fairly good condition. This 

 road is part of the Powassan and Eestoule Eoad it extends westerly for a distance 

 of over 40 miles, it is one of the oldest roads in the district. West of Nipissing 

 the road was in bad condition; it passes through' a country which has been settled 

 for over 25 years. The country is broken and rocky, but in places there is a very 

 fine agricultural land with fairly prosperous settlers. These settlers have no other 

 access to the railway but by this particular road. An exploration was made of 



