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IS of a first-class quality. A continuation for a few years of the work commenced 

 last season will rem'ove all difficulties in the matter of roads, and T am confident 

 fhat settlers will go into this district in the future in greatly increased numbers. 

 During last season a trunk road was constructed from Lavallee on the Main 

 Trunk Eoad south to Eainy River, a distance of six miles. From the town of 

 Emo a trunk road was constructed north a distance of five miles, and from the 

 town of Barwick a Trunk Eoad was constructed north six miles. From Pinewood 

 a road was constructed north four miles, and from Sleeman a main trunk road 

 was constructed from the railway to the Little Grassy Eiver, a distance of 16% 

 miles. This last mentioned road opens up a large section of first-class farming 

 country in which fair progress has been made by the settlers. Several short roads 

 were constructed in different places throughout the valley, where the settlers were 



Shevelin & Clarke's Lumber Yard, Fort Frances. 



December, 1913. 



Quantity, 100,000,000 feet in 



in most need of an outlet. All of these north and south trunk roads when extended 

 further north will open up new sections and give to the present settlers a means 

 of reaching a market on the Canadian JSTorthern Railway which they have been 

 long in need of. 



Nearly all these roads have been well graded and ditched; thirty miles have 

 been surfaced with gravel, 202 substantial wooden culverts of cedar and tamarac 

 have been constructed and twelve pile bridges of the most durable material built; 

 91/^ miles of tap drains had to be constructed in order to get the water away from 

 the roads; 321/^ miles of road ditches were dug of sufficient size to not only drain 

 the road bed, but to assist the settlers in draining their lands, old roads where 

 they were found too narrow were widened and reditched. 



Following is a description of the various roads, on which was expended 

 $135,031.31. 



