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The easterly 4i/^ miles of this road passes through a good agricultural country, 

 the land is high, the soil a good clay loam, the timber of the usual character-spruce, 

 balsam, Balm-of-Gilead, poplar, and some white birch. The balance of the road 

 passes through low swampy land with small spruce timber. There are no settlers 

 along this road. The road, as cut out, will give access to settlers who may here- 

 after locate on the higher land on the easterly 41/2 miles of the road to the Temis- 

 kaming and Northern Ontario Railway. Part of the low land, when properly 

 drained, will make fairly good meadow land. 



Tioad No. 17. 



A trunk road was cut out along the north side of the right of way of the 

 National Transcontinental Railway, passing through this township for a distance 

 of 61/^ miles, from Lot 14 to Lot 34 inclusive. The road was cut out the full 

 width, and well grubbed, and is ready for grading. 



On this road was expended $4,949.43. 



It is proposed to extend this road easterly to the Quebec boundary, a further 

 distance of 4^/2 miles. 



This road passes through a very fine section of land; the soil is all a rich clay 

 loam. In this township, which was surveyed last season, there is over 75 per cent, 

 of the land suitable for agricultural purposes; and, in order to promote settlement 

 in this township, it will be necessary to complete the road to the Quebec boundary, 

 and to construct two roads crossing the railway at right angles, so as to give 

 access to the lots in the rear of the township. A few hundred yards east of the 

 Quebec boundary, in the Province of Quebec, the railway crosses the Okikodosik 

 River, which has a width of over 150 feet, and is navigable south into the Abitibi 

 Lakes. At this point there is a station bearing the same name as the river, and a 

 small settlement has been started by the Quebec Government, and roads are being 

 cut out in advance of settlement by the Government of the Province of Quebec. 



To the east of the township of Sargent, in Quebec, there is a large area of fine 

 land similar to that in the Township of Sargent, and there is every reason to 

 believe that on completion of the roads, settlement will take place on both sides 

 of the Inter-Provincial boundary. Already several settlers have located in Sargent. 

 The Quebec boundary is distant 72 miles east of the town of Cochrane. 



Road No. 18. 



In the neighbourhood of the town of Hearst, a divisional point of the National 

 Transcontinental Railway, 130 miles west of Cochrane. 



A main trunk road was begun near the town of Hearst and constructed west 

 with a view to connecting the said town with the Algoma Central Ontario Railway 

 running north from Sault Ste. Marie and Michipiooton Harbour and 160 miles 

 north therefrom for a distance of 1^/4 miles. A contract was let to P. Turgeon 

 to cut the timber on the road, burn it, and grub the centre portion 36 feet in width, 

 at $650 per mile. The road is now cut out and grubbed, but part of the timber 

 has not yet been burned off. $625 has been paid on account of this contract. The 

 road will be ready for grading as soon as the timber is burned off. 



This trunk road was extended easterly through the town plot of Hearst along 

 the main street which is contiguous to the southerly limit of the right of way 

 of the National Transcontinental Railway station grounds. This road was stumped. 



