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broken and rocky, although several first-class farms along the road were passed. 

 Large numbers of boulders had to be drawn olT the road and rocky ridges cut 

 down. The road is now well graded and ditched although very little gravel was 

 available, and later on it will be necessary to put gravel on the lower portions. 



About three-quarters of a mile east of Callander the road crosses the Canadian 

 Northern Eailway and at Callander it crosses the Grand Trunk Eailway to the 

 west side and then continues northerly paralleling the railway until it reaches a 

 point about a quarter of a mile south of Nipissing Junction, at the crossing of the 

 Canadian Pacific Eailway. Up to this point from Mattawa the road follows as 

 nearly as possible the old road. It enters the Township of Himsworth half a mile 

 east of Callander and continues across Concessions 27 and 28, Himsworth, when it 

 again enters the Township of Ferris between Lots 31 and 32, and from that point 

 it continues through the Township of Ferris until it crosses the boundary between 

 [Ferris and Widdifield on Lot 40, Concession 18. From near Nipissing Junction 

 the new road was cut out, the old road being found almost impracticable owing to 

 the rocky country passed through. The new road, as cut out, had no bad grades 

 and passes through a country which has a fair percentage of agricultural land in it. 

 It passes close to the shore of Lake Mpissing, passing close to a large number of 

 -summer resorts. From Nipissing Junction to North Bay the country is very 

 level in places, the soil being light, sandy loam. No gravel was available and after 

 i;he road had been well graded and ditched it was found necessary to crush rock so 

 •as to macadamize about four miles of it. This work was begun early in January 

 when it was found cheapest to crush and haul rock. Between North Bay and 

 Callander twenty first-class stone and wooden culverts were constructed and three 

 wooden bridges. 



This road was all constructed by day labor. The grader was used where it. 

 was found practicable but that covered only a very small portion of the entire road. 



Eighty- three thousand three hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-eight 

 cents was expended on this road. 



"When the road between North Bay and Callander is stoned and the low places, 

 between Callander and Bonfield gravelled and a new bridge constructed across the 

 Amable du Fond Eiver, this road will be quite passable for automobiles or motor 

 trucks. At present, the distance of forty-eight miles can be made in three hours. 



ROADS IN THE DISTRICT OF SUDBUEY. 



Number of miles constructed and old roads improved, 72i/^. 



(Of which 10 miles have been macadamized and 50 miles graded, 12% miles 

 cut out and partly graded.) 

 Amount expended, $118,568.32. 



Work on the Sudbury roads was commenced on or about the 1st of Ma}, 1913, 

 between the Town of Sudbury and the Murray mine which is distant 31/2 miles 

 west of Sudbury. A road had been constructed between these two points by the 

 Colonization Road Branch some years ago. It passed through a very rocky and 

 broken country, interspersed with several small muskegs which were difficult to 

 drain. There was a good deal of traffic passing over this road between Murray 

 mine and Sudbury, and also that of all the settlers' in the Chelmsford Valley for 

 twenty miles west, as far as Onaping on the west and north-west, Vermilion Lake 

 on the south and Vermilion River on the north. It was therefore considered 



