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no new work has been done upon the old road. West of Commanda to Loring 

 the road passes through Golden Valley, in which there is a good settlement of 

 fairly prosperous farmers, the land in many places being first class. In other 

 sections the road passes through a rocky sparsely settled country where the road 

 will have to be diverted in some instances, in order to better the grades. This 

 country has been settled in places for the last 40 years and the only access to the 

 railway, for these settlers, is along this road. At the present time it is a difficult 

 matter for the settlers to reach a market except during the winter season. The 

 first 8 miles of the road, commencing at Trout Creek Station, has been well graded 

 and gravelled in places; 21 iron culverts and 6 wooden culverts were placed. 

 Several of the hills were cut down to improve the grade. The hills on both sides 

 of the South River bridge were cut down and the grade very much improved. 

 Owing to the wet season unfortunately we were unable to complete the gravelling 

 of some sections of the road and this will require to be done later on. 



Distress Road : 



On the main road from Sundridge to Magnetawan village a diversion was made 

 around what is locally known as " Distress Hill " ; 1 mile of new road was cut 

 out and gravelled, in order to improve the grade. The old road passes over a 

 rocky hill which it was found impossible to cut down. Over 1,000 yards of gravel 

 were used in surfacing this road. 



Townships of Conger and Freeman : 



The road from Parry Sound, running south to Lake Joseph and Lake Muskoka 

 was extended from Gordon Bay, along the Canadian Pacific and Canadian Xorthern 

 Railways to Foote Bay, a distance of about 5 miles, through the townships of 

 Conger and Freeman. This road connected with a fairly good automobile road 

 from Foote Bay to Bala, a summer resort on Muskoka Lake. The road followed 

 had been cut out several years ago, but was grown up and unused, except during 

 the winter season. The road was cut out, widened and stumped ready for grading. 

 It passes through a comparatively level country, with no bad grades and, when 

 coinpleted, will give the citizens of the town of Parry Sound and villages along 

 the railway access to the summer resorts in the Muskoka Lake country. It will 

 also assist the settlers in getting to a market for their produce. The road requires 

 to be graded and ditched. 



The total amoant expended on the trunk road, and other roads in the Districts 

 of Parry Sound and ]\lu.skoka during the season was $144,043.33. 



DISTRICT OF mPISSING. 



Mattaiva-Kloch Road: 



The old travelled road known as the Mattawa and Pembroke road commencing 

 about 3 miles east of the Town of Mattawa and extending east for a distance of over 

 12 miles, was widened, ditched and graded to a point about 2 miles east of Klock 

 Station on the C.P.R. On this road 5 corrugated iron culverts, 10 wooden culverts 

 and 6 stone culverts were placed. The road was well ditched and graded, 1 bridge 

 was repaired, 1,433 cu. yds. of gravel were used in resurfacing the worst parts 

 af the road. Between the eastern terminus of this work and the western end 

 of the work performed west of Chalk River there is a long section of road which 

 will require considerable repairing and grading. It is part of the old timber 



