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ditches to carry off the surface water, and graded the road, cutting down all the 

 bad hills and steep pitches and straightened the road from point to point. As 

 good gravel was to he found in great quantities close to the road, the entire road 

 was gravelled for a widtli of from 12 to l(i feet and to a depth of from 5 to 8 inches. 

 Good stone culverts were placed wherever required. 



As we entered the Township of Calvin on the east side fairly good agricultural 

 land was met with, altJiough stony in places. The country is all well settled and 

 fair progress is being made. This road crosses the Pautois Creek on Lot 7 and the 

 Amable du Fond River on Lot 21. There is a good concrete bridge across Pautois 

 Creek but the bridge across the Amable du Fond River is a wooden one and has 

 been in use for ten or more years and will shortly require to be removed. The 

 covering is badly rotted and I re-planked it, and it will now last for a few years. 

 The bridge is 120 feet in length. It is built on piers filled with rock. The piers 

 are badly decayed and at present it would be unsafe to take heavy machinery over 

 it. On Lot 26 a small bridge was constructed with two corrugated iron culverts 

 58 inches in diameter. The country along the road through the Township of 

 Calvin is high and rolling. Large stone culverts were constructed where necessary 

 and the road well graded and ditched. Several corrugated iron culverts were 

 placed where stone could not be had conveniently. About three miles of the road 

 was gravelled in places where it was most required. The road throughout this 

 township is now in first class condition, from 18 to 22 feet in width. The low 

 places were all built up with stone and the heavy grades cut down. 



Entering the Township of Bonfield on the east, the land still continues good. 

 The road crosses the Canadian Pacific Railway at the north-east angle of Lot 32, 

 Concession 8, at the Village of Rutherglen to the north side, and again re-crosses 

 to the south side on the same lot. On Lot 31 it crosses Spark's Creek where a 

 concrete bridge was constructed by the Department of Public "Works. Large 

 corrugated iron culverts were used for the bridge on the creek crossing Lot 24, on 

 the line between Concessions 8 and 9. Several small muskegs were crossed and 

 these had to be filled in with stone and well drained. Numerous rocky hills were, 

 crossed and considerable rock cutting had to be done in order to make the grades 

 passable. The country approaching Bonneld Station was exceptionally broken and 

 required a great deal of work to make the road in good condition. On this part 

 of the road corrugated iron culverts were placed on all the small streams. In the 

 Town of Bonfield, across the Kabaskong River, a steel bridge with concrete abut- 

 ments was constructed a year ago by the Public Works Department. The western 

 approach to the bridge at the crossing of tlie Canadian Pacific Railway had not 

 been filled in. Since October 31st I completed this part of the work, filling in 

 over 1,500 cubic yards of rock. 



After crossing the Kabaskong River, the road continues along the north side 

 of the Canadian Pacific. Railway, and at a distance of 21^ miles the Township of 

 Ferris is entered, the road still continuing from a chain to a quarter of a mile from 

 the right of way of the Canadian Pacific Railway, passing close to Nasbonsing 

 Station on Lot 3, Concession 3, Ferris. The country still continues rocky and 

 rolling although there is a fair percentage of fairly good agricultural land in 

 places. The road crosses the Canadian Pacific Railway on the line between Con- 

 cessions 6 and 7, on Lot 5, and follows the Concession road allowances and side 

 road allowances throusrhout to the Village of Callander. From this crossing to 

 Callander, forty stone and wooden culverts were constructed across the numerou.s 

 small streams and runways. Throughout this entire township the country is 



