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necessary to construct a trunk road sufficient for the heavy traffic and farm produce 

 that would be taken over it. The road was constructed as near as practicable tx) 

 the stations along the Canadian Pacific Eailway, through the Village at Murray 

 mine, Azilda, as close to the Village of Chelmsford as possible, through the Village 

 of Larchwood and west to Phelan. 



Between Sudbury and a point a mile west of Murray Mine, the country is a 

 series of rocky ridges and small muskegs. On the old road little had been done to 

 modify the grades, and it was found necessary to do a great deal of rock cutting and 

 filling in of the hollows in order to make a grade that was in keeping with the 

 amount of traffic which would pass over the road. No gravel was available along 

 the road. 



The Sudbury and Murray Mine Stone Road. 



A stone crusher Avas put to work along the road, also crushed rock was 

 brought in by train from the Moose Mountain Mine, ]iorth of Sudbury. It re- 

 quired 5,000 tons of crushed rock to surface the road to a point about a mile 

 beyond Murray Mine. Beyond this point the road passed through a section of 

 country less broken, as far as Azilda Station on Lot 4, Concession 1, Township of 

 Rayside, where the Chelmsford Valley, a large section of good agricultural country, 

 is entered. The road then continues west and north-west within 5 to 15 chains of 

 the right of way of the Canadian Pacific Railway to the line between Concessions 

 2 and 3, Lot 8, Rayside, thence west along said concession line across Lots 8, 9, 10 

 and 11, to the townline between the Townships of Rayside and Balfour; thence 

 north 15 chains to the line between Concessions 2 and 3 of said Township of 

 Balfour, thence west along the line between said Concessions to line be- 

 tween Lots 10 and 11, 5 miles; thence north and north-west crossing the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway near the line between Lots 11 anrl 12 ; thence westerly 



