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menced the construction of my first road on the boundary between the Townships of 

 Glackmeyer and Lamarche, east and west from the town of Cochrane; which road 

 will form the m^in highway running east to the Abitibi Eiver and the Qufi'bec 

 boundary, and west to the Frederickhouse River, or to the town of Hearst, the first 

 divisional point on the National Transcontinental Railway west of Cochrane, and 

 distant therefrom 130 miles. 



I had some difficulty at first in procuring the required number of labourers, 

 as nearly all the available men' in that part of the country were otherwise engaged 

 on railroad construction work, and the settlers were occupied in clearing their 

 lands. About the 20th of June I succeeded in securing 50 men, and began oper- 

 ations; and from that time on I had no great difficulty in securing the number of 

 men I required. By the end of September I had 650 men on the work. 



The operations of the season of 1912 extended east in townships already 

 surveyed along the National Transcontinental Railway from the town of Cochrane 

 to the Inter-Provincial boundary, a distance of 72 miles; and west in places along 

 the railway as far as the town plot of Hearst, at the junction of the National Trans- 

 continental Railway and the Algoma Central Railway; and southerly in the Town- 

 ships along the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway from the town of 

 Cochrane to the town of Ehglehart, a distance of 115 miles. 



The roads constructed in the large or nine-mile township? along the National 

 Transcontinental Railway were along the outer bo'indaries of the townships, anrl 

 north and south through the centre; and east and west across the centre, where it 

 was at all practicable to follow those lines. In the smaller, or six-mile townships 

 along the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway, the work was confined in 

 most instances to the outer boundaries of the townships only, except where the 

 physical features of the country made it impracticable to follow these boundaries. 

 In such cases, the most suitable lines were selected in the interior of the township. 



In order to give settlers along the Temiskamin<r and Northern Ontario Rail- 

 way access to the different stations thereon, it was found necessary to construct a 

 trunk road along the right of way, to connect up the .different sideroads and con- 

 cession roads which had already been constructed by the Department of Public 

 Works during the last few years, in the townships adjacent +o the railway. This 

 trunk road was begun near the tovm of Matheson and extended north and south 

 for a distance of 25 miles. Besides this trunk road, roads were constructed along 

 the boundaries of several of the townships; and in some instances, where it was 

 fonnd impracticable to use the boundaries, interior roads were constructed in lieu 

 thereof. 



In the vicinity of Cochrane roads were constructed along the outer boundaries 

 of the different townships along the National Transcontinental Railway for a 

 distance of over 20 miles west of Cochrane, and 12 miles east, and extending 12 

 miles north of the railway and over 6 miles south. These townships were divided 

 by roads running north and south through the centre, and east and west across the 

 centre. 



A trunk road was also commenced on the National Transcontinental Railway, 

 near the Quebec boundary, through a large area of first class agricultural land, con- 

 tiguous to a settlement already begun in the Province of Quebec. 



At the town of Hearst, a trunk road was begun, running west from the town 

 to the Al<^oma Central Ontario Railway, which will form part of the main trunk 



