^l.S - REPORT OF THE ISio. 3 



Township of Blue : 



On road between Sections 8 and 17, 170 rods were graded, and a ditch dug 

 on each side of road, 2 culverts built and 4 repaired; 60 rods of road repaired 

 between iSections 20 and 11. 



Township of Worthington: 



On road between river lots 40 and 41 a bridge was repaired, and between 

 Section 34 and lot 16, 6 culverts were repaired, and on the trunk road, on river 

 lot 11, a culvert was built. 



The trunk road was kept dragged from Rainy River to Fort Frances, a dis- 

 tance of 60 miles. The Rainy River-Spohn road was dragged 15 miles; the 

 Sleeman-Bergland road was dragged 18 miles; the Barwick-Black Hawk road 12 

 miles and the Emo-Off Lake road 7 miles. 



At Tracey Rapids on the Seine River about 4l^ miles west of Atikokan 

 Station, Canadian Northern Railway, a bridge was constructed in March and 

 April. The bridge is 145 ft, long, with one rock filled pier 12 x 16, one 18 x 18, 

 with a 50 ft. opening; one 16 x 18, with a 27 ft. opening; with an abutment, filled 

 with rock, on the south side 7 ft. high, 20 ft. wide and 25 ft. long. Between this 

 bridge and the Canadian Northern Railway, a road i/^ mile in length was cut, 

 grubbed and graded. 



J. F. Whitson, 



Commissioner. 



To the Honourable ihe Minister of Lands and Forests: — 



SiE, — I beg to submit for your consideration and recommendation that the 

 following amounts be expended during the season of 1920 on the construction 

 of new roads and bridges, the maintenance of previously constructed trunk roads, 

 the re-grading and re-surfacing with stone or gravel of old roads, the drainage 

 of swamps, and the construction of tap drains in the Districts of Rainy River, 

 Kenora, Port Arthur, Fort William, Algoma, Sudbury, Nipissing, Parry Sound, 

 Muskoka, Manitoulin Island, and County of Renfrew. 



District of Bainy River: 



In this District there are approximately 150 miles of trunk roads 

 constructed or re-constructed during the last seven years which require 

 to be maintained. In places they require constant dragging, ditches and 

 culverts require to be kept open, and occasionally parts of the road require 

 re-gravelling. In several of the townships from 10 to 20 miles north of 

 the C. N. Railway, settlement has taken place during the last five or six 

 years and many of these settlers have little or no access to a market, 

 except by winter roads, and in consequence the settlers have been badly 

 handicapped, therefore, it is necessary that new roads be constructed 

 through these townships, connecting them with the trunk roads already 

 built. In some instances trunk roads have been constructed north lead- 

 ing into these townships, which will require to be extended and the worst 

 parts of the roads surfaced with gravel. For this purpose I would recom- 

 mend the expenditure of $70,000 



