1919-2a DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. 



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Quebec Province there is a timber road extending for 100 miles or more through 

 the pine and spruce forests. The work as performed this season extended as far 

 west as the branch road leading to the interprovincial bridge, which is distant 

 only a few miles from our trunk road. From about the same point, the road 

 branches southerly a few mil^es to Moore Lake Station on the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway. This branch road to the station was bruslied out, grubbed in places, 

 and the worst grades cut down. This station is where the settlers along the trunk 

 road within a reasonable "distance market their supplies. The road from Chalk 

 River west, passes in places over sandy plains, grown up Avith a thick second growth 

 of pine and other timber, Avhich even now have a commercial value. The road 

 passes in sight of the Ottawa River throughout a good portion of its length, and 

 the scenery is very fine. At present there is considerable automobile traffic 



On the banks of the Ottawa River, near the Interprovincial Bridge, between Ontario 

 and Quebec, across the Joachim Rapids: one of the most noted transporting 

 points in the early days of lumbering in the Ottawa Valley. 



between Mattawa and Pembroke, although the road west of where our work ter- 

 minated and Klock Station, is almost impassable in places. This road was repaired 

 in places in the vicinity of Bisset Station, where it was cut out and widened for 

 a distance of 6 miles and in the vicinity of Adelard Station, 5 miles of the road 

 were brushed out, and 3 miles stumped and stoned, ready for grading. 



The expenditure on this work during the season amounted to $24,421.55, 



DISTRICT OF SUDBURY 



(I arson to Coniston lioad 



This road was cut out and graded 3 years ago. There was considerable heavy 

 traffic over the road between the Mond Nickel Company's smelters at Coniston 

 and the Company's mines at the village of Garson, the distance being a little over 



