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"ARE COMING TO SEE OUR GOOD ROADS," Cobalt Daily Nugget. September 18, 1913. Page 1. ---- Toronto Council Representatives Will be Here Next Month ---- The value of trap rock from the Cobalt mines, for paving Old Ontario roads, will be thoroughly explained to Mayor Hocken, his controllers and other prominent Toronto men on October 3rd, when a party of 12 Torontonians will visit Cobalt and see the classy roads that exist Coleman township. The party will be in charge of Commissioner Fred Dane, to the T. & N. O. Railway who made the announcement of the visit yesterday.
In the party will be Mayor H. C. Hocken, Controllers "Tommy" Church, Thomas Foster, John O'Neil and C. McCarthy, Works Commissioner R. C. Harris, Ald. Thomas Dunn chairman of the Board of Works of the City of Toronto and several other prominent members of the city council and staff, who have to do with road building.
Arriving in Cobalt on "47" on the morning of Friday, Oct. 3rd, the party will be met by Reeve Arthur Ferland of Coleman Township, and Mayor A. Z. Trudel of Cobalt, and waiting automobiles will be at the station to take the visitors on the tour of the township roads. The drive to the Timiskaming will be made by way of the north route a- round Kerr Lake, while returning the party will come by the southern route and pass around by the Penn-Canadian and Peterson Lake. Arrangements will also be made to show the visitors some of the mine dumps where the trap rock is obtained and if possible they will be given a chance to take a peep at underground high grade veins at one of the mines.
Luncheon well be tendered the visit ors at a mine in the camp but the arrangements for this part of the program have not been defir tely decided upon,
In the afternoon the party will be taken to Haileybury and New Liskeard with the possibilities of trip through the clay belt.
For several years the T. & Ν. Ο. officials have endeavored to have the Toronto civic officials visit the Cobalt camp to take a few pointers in road construction but disappointment has been received on various occasions. Now the definite date has been set for Oct. 3rd and the party may number a dozen.
"We will show them the best paving material for good roads on earth, in the Cobalt trap rock," stated Chairman J. L. Englehart.
"RAINY WEATHER KEPT BACK GOOD ROADS WORK," Toronto Globe. September 27, 1912. Page 9. --- CONSTRUCTION HAS FALLEN AWAY BEHIND FORMER RECORDS. ---- Among the many things chargeable to the exceptionally wet summer season few are regarded as more unfortunate by the Provincial Government than the practical stay necessitated by conditions in the expansion of the good roads system. According to Mr. W. McLean, Provincial Engineer of Highways, roadway construction during the past season has fallen away behind former records. Not alone has there been less work. but that which has been accomplished has been more cost is to the counties.
Not one additional county has come into the good roads system this season, although the counties of Elgin, Essex, Norfolk, Peterboro', Stormont, Dundas, Glengarry and Kent are considering the establishment of the county road system.
New problems are confronting the work. The cost of road construction is becoming steadily higher, and their wages now paid are practically double what they were ten years ago. Moreover, a number of counties are holding back in the hope that when the Federal Government consents to make good its promised grant to highways the money will be used to assist the counties in their work.
“800 to 1,000 Will Get Work On Highway,” Border Cities Star. 1931-10-28. Page 03 & 9. --- Leamington Route Ready --- County Council Selects Location For Latest Traffic Link ---- Talk to Deputy --- Joint Construction Plan For Road is Approved By Committee ---- Jobs for from 800 to 1,000 men for three months seemed assured today as members of the Essex County Council's Highway Committee prepared for a meeting tomorrow with R. M. Smith, Deputy Minister of Highways, at which they will inform him of their choice between three alternative routes for a new provincial highway from Leamington. to Windsor, proposed here last week by Hon. Leopold Macaulay, Minister of Highways.
AREA INSPECTED Yesterday the Highway Committee members Inspected the Amherstburg area. It was intimated to The Star today that not only has the county definitely decided to join with the Border Cities and the province in building the work, in order to provide employment, but has practically made up its mind in favor of the river and lake route by way of Amherstburg.
The route favored by the Highway Committee would connect with the Pront Road, paralleling the Detroit River, from the Border Cities to Amherstburg. From Amherstburg it would follow the course of the present he torte Riverfront Road, and pass by way of Knapp's Bridge through Malden to Harrow and along the lake front to Kingsville and Leamington. It would involve the construction of about 30 miles of new highway, which is to be graded and graveled, but not paved at this time.
Under ordinary conditions, using machinery, the cost would be about $2,500 a mile, but using hand labor to provide a maximum of work, the cost is estimated as likely to run from $5,000 to $7,000 per mile. This would represent an outlay of from $180,000 to $210,000. Of this the province has offered to pay 80 percent, with the county and Border Cities included in the Windsor Suburban Roads Commission sharing the remaining 30 percent. The division of cost between the county and the separated municipalities has still to be negotiated. However, no difficulty In reaching amicable agreement is anticipated by either urban or rural groups.
WATERFRONT DRIVEWAY
Construction of the road along the route indicated would provide a new waterfront driveway, following the Detroit River and Lake Erie shores for all except six or eight miles, when. I because of swampy conditions and other factors, the road would have to wing slightly inland.
Tomorrow's meeting place was still undecided this afternoon, pending receipt of further word from Mr. Barth. The Roads Committee may assemble at Leamington to go over that portion of the planned route, then convene at Sandwich.
Whatever the county chooses will be acceptable to Mr. Macaulay, although he indicated when here is work that his preferential choice would not lie with cause he said, of the the considerable difficulty in expropriating a right of way though summer colony, developments. Moreover, he remarked, the Riverfront Road which has been a bone of contention between Malden Township, which wants it closed, and replaced by another road somewhat inland, and Amherstburg and the Border Cities which have successfully fought to keep it open, would mean further cost necessitated through strengthening the bank, along which the road runs, against erosion. ALTERNATIVE ROUTES The other routes proposed to the Highway Committee Leamington to Kingsville in Harrow to Malden County and North to Huron Line; now partly a township road.
Leamington to Kingsville to Marrow through Malden Centre to McGregor and Morden and on to Howard avenue, now partly under the supervision of the Windsor Suburban Roads Commission.
“Manitoba-To-Ontario Highway Completed,” Winnipeg Tribune. April 8, 1932. Page 3. ---- Completion of the Trans-Canada highway from Whitemouth to the Ontario boundary was announced today by the good roads branch. The last work was done Saturday.
The section east from Whitemouth was let in three contracts and the eastern portion was uncompleted at the freeze-up last fall. The road will not be officially opened until July, although travel will likely be permitted as soon as the gravelling the work can be completed this spring.
Engineers of the road branch were today obtaining report on the condition of the provincial trunk highways for spring travel. The ban on truck transportation is now enforced.
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“Good Roads Get Move On,” Toronto World. August 4, 1911. Page 03. ---- Work on the good roads system is now fairly under way, the commission having succeeded in getting the work started on Yonge-st., a little to the north of the Hogg’s Hollow hill. The plant is one purchased by the commission, and includes a complete outfit, which will be in the early stages available for active construction and later for repair work. Engineer James is in charge of the outfit, and it is safe to say that with the commission fully alive to the situation, and a first-class engineer, the thing will be pushed along as rapidly as possible.
When the contracts are awarded on the other sections contemplated this fall, the whole thing will begin to look like business.