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You will engage the necessary laborers, teams, engineers and clerical staff, 

 paying them at the current rate of wages paid in the locality of the work. Where 

 settlers can be secured in the vicinity of the work, and are capable and willing to 

 perform the kind of work required, you will in every instance engage them. 



In the employment of men, you will make no distinction, as the Department 

 will require of every man employed a day's work for a day's pay; merit being the 

 sole consifleration in the payment of wages. Before hiring your' inspectors, fore- 

 men or timekeepers, you will make diligent enquiry, and ascertain that they are 

 capable and trustworthy. The duty of selecting your men devolves upon yourself, 

 and you will be held responsible for the results of their labour. 



You will purchase the necessary supplies, camp equipage, tools and road; 

 machinery, where you can secure the best value for the amount expended. You 

 will keep yourself posted on the market prices of supplies, etc., required on your 

 work. You will see that your camp equipage, tools, machinery, etc., is properly 

 looked after; and that there be no waste of provisions around your different camps. 



Where you have found by experience that a certain class of work can be per- 

 formed cheaper by contract than by day labour, you will be at liberty to let small 

 contracts, after making careful examination and estimates. 



You will report from time to time on the progress of your work; and if you 

 are at any time in doubt as to the advisability of constructing certain roads, you 

 will apply to this Department for instructions. 



You will, where necessary, engai^e proner oflPce accommodation, and will con- 

 struct such buildiriffs as are necessary for the protection and storing of your camp 

 outfits, provisions, tools and machinery. 



Yours truly, 



(Sgd.) Aubrey White, 



Deputy Minister of Lands and Forests} 



Appendix No. 36. 



Report ox the Constructiox of Roads in Northern Ontario, under the 

 Provisions or 3 Geo. V., Chap. 2. 



To the Hon. W. H. Hearst, 



Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, Ontario. 



Sir, — I have the honour to submit my report of the work done under the 

 Northern Development Branch of the Department of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 on the Construction of Roads in Northern Ontario, under the provisions of 2 Geo. 

 v.. Chap. 2. 



Under instructions, dated the 23rd of May, 1913, I proceeded to the town of 

 Cochrane at the junction of the National Transcontinental 'Railway and the 

 Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway. 



After making a personal examination of the townships in the vicinity of 

 Cochrane, I travelled over the different side-lines and concession lines along which 

 it was proposed, in my instructions, roads should be built, if no engineering diffi- 

 culties were met with and the land was found suitable for settlement. I com- 



