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REPORT OF THE 



No. 3 



SCOBLE AND PeARSON RoAD. 



■ Commencing at a point on the Pigeon River road where the latter turns south 

 from the north limit of the township of Blake, thence west along the north limit 

 of that township and south along the west limit of the said township, to a trunk 

 road constructed by the municipality of Pearson township, and beginning again 

 at a point on said trunk road where the line between lots 6 and 7 intersects it; 

 thence south 2 miles; thence west 1 mile to another trunk road similarly con- 

 fitrncted. Work was performed on these roads for a total distance of 6 miles. 

 On all the old roads improTed, the stumps, etc., were cleared away and 

 burned for a width of 66 feet, all boulders and stones, stumps and roots were 

 removed from the central 40 feet, culverts of corrugated iron, stone or durable 



The Fort William and Duluth Trunk Road passing the Provincial Government's Prison 

 Farm, south-west of Fort William. 



wood were built at all stream or water course crossings. The steep pitches and 

 grades were modified by excavation. All low-lying portions of the roadway were 

 built up by borrowing earth from the sides or from adjacent high ground. A 

 roadway 28 feet in width having well constructed ditches on each margin was 

 formed having a crown of 2 feet at its centre above the ditches. Graders hauled 

 by horses and a large grader hauled by a traction engine were used in the work. 

 The old roads were often merely a waggon width track, closely hemmed in, 

 in places by trees and undergrowth, with many roots, stumps and boulders in 

 the roadways. They followed along the road allowances, but were very crooked 

 and little or no work had been done to modify the steep pitches at stream crossings 

 and hills. Drainage was insufficient, and in many instances the old ditches 

 ■^vere so close to the travelled portion of the road that it- was dangerous for 

 NL'hicles to pass. These roads had to be widened, the old ditches filled in and 

 new ones constructed. Gravel suitable for road purposes was difficult to procure. 



