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Title: ONTARIO SESSIONAL PAPERS, 1915, No.3-4
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: ONTARIO. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
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Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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which it will open up if continued. Also five miles of tap drain were dug and 74 culverts put in. FOET WILLIAM AND PORT ARTHUR DISTRICT. Number of miles new road cut out 60.45 Number of miles graded 32.5 Number of miles resurfaced witb gravel 31.25 Number of miles partly graded or improved 76.20 Number of miles under construction 139.95 Number of bridges constructed 9 Pigeon River Road: Work was begun on this road at the westerly limit of the City of Fort William,where re-ditching, re-grading and surfacing was done for 14 miles. On thisstretch the first 3^4 miles were gravelled, two hills having first been cut down andthe road grades improved by deepening fills at low lying points. The next 21/0miles (being in an area of poor drainage having little fall for the escape of water)was surfaced with crushed rock. This rock was got at the foot of McKay Mountain,was crushed by a Blake crusher and distributed to a depth of 8 inches along the 1913-14 DEPARTMENT OF LAXDS, FORESTS AXD MINES. 115
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9 L.M. 116 PtEPOET OF THE No. 3 road. Two low lying spots (in all about V2 mile) were filled with boulder stoneand these covered with gravel. The piers and stringers of a 24 foot bridge wererenewed and three hills cut down on the remaining part of the above mentionedstretch. This road was then further extended for 11 miles; was cleared, grubbed,graded and ditched, and corrugated iron culverts set in place and three woodenbridges, each 40 feet in length, erected. The road at this point is at the settle-ment of Cloud Bay. A further stretch, 6 miles in length, was cleared and grubbed;this ends at the Pine River. The remainder of the road was surveyed and thecentre line was cut out. The whole length of this road was found to be 37 miles,of which 12 miles remain to be graded. There is a road, with fair grades butnarrow roadway, along the Pigeon River; 4 miles of which can be made use of inthe extension of this road, leaving 8 miles to be cut out to complete the road to thePigeon River or I

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