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miles was constructed. This road passes through a rough, rocky section ; the rocky 

 hills had to be cut down and the valleys filled; it was also found necessary, owing 

 to the great amount of traffic that passes over this road, to re-surface it with stone. 

 Eock was crushed near the Froud Mine and placed on the road. It is now a first 

 class macadam road, well drained. 



Garson Mine Trunk Road. 



Commencing at a point on the Sudbury and Brc/^ard Valley Trunk Eoad, 

 about two miles north of the town of Sudbury and extending to the Garson Mine 

 in the township of Garson, through the townsliips of McKim, Neelon and Garson 

 (distant 8I/2 miles) 4^/4 miles of old road were regraded and ditched, and J^ 

 mile macadamized and 41^ miles of new road was graded and macadamized. The 

 new road passes through a light sandy country, where it was found impassable 



Bridge, 325 ft. long, over the Opickinimika River, Mile 13, West Shining Tree Road. 



for heavy traffic without resurfacing with stone. Crushed rock was secured at the 

 Moose Mountain Mine on the Canadian Northern Railway, and landed at the 

 point on the road where it crosses the railway, at a cost of 75c. per ton; also rock 

 from the waste dumps at the Garson Mine, where no charge was made. Over 

 6,000 tons of rock was used on this road. The balance of the road was high, and 

 is now well graded and ditched.- Several small bridges were constructed and 

 corrugated iron culverts were placed on the small streams, the westerly five miles 

 of this road passes through a fairly good agricultural country, the latter portion 

 Ihrough a light sandy section. 



West Shining Tree Mining Road. 



Commencing at a point on the Canadian jSTorthern Railway at mileage 785^ 

 north of the town of Sudbury, on the east shore of Duehabaning Lake, thence 

 northerly, passing the north end of Deschenes Lake, and north-easterly through 



