Ontario Sessional Papers, 1906, . ition of the roads. Improve-ments are being made in long stretches instead of in disconnected, unfinishedpatches. Better gravel is being placed on the roads. The use of crushedstone is growing in townships where good gravel is not to be had. The costis being cheapened by the use of machinery to grade the roads and preparethe material. Every man employed on the road is required to do a fair dayswork. Wagons must hold a fixed amount, and the number of loads of ma-terial to constitute a days work is specified. Roads are more carefullycrowned and drained.
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1906, . ition of the roads. Improve-ments are being made in long stretches instead of in disconnected, unfinishedpatches. Better gravel is being placed on the roads. The use of crushedstone is growing in townships where good gravel is not to be had. The costis being cheapened by the use of machinery to grade the roads and preparethe material. Every man employed on the road is required to do a fair dayswork. Wagons must hold a fixed amount, and the number of loads of ma-terial to constitute a days work is specified. Roads are more carefullycrowned and drained. All work is done under a permanent road commis-sioner, who is responsible for all work and who gains experience from yearto year. In all respects the principles of road-making are better observed. Education Needed. It is not the abandonment of statute labor that is being primarily is useless to do so until those interested in the roads know and realize whyit should be given up. Statiite labor might be abolished by an Act of Par-. NeAR CaRLETON liament. but this would not educate municipal officers nor the general publiciu respect to the efficient operation of the system established in its place, andthe principles of roadmaking. No system can be efficient that is not wiselyand faithfully carried out. Educative measures in this respect will be muchmore effective than a compulsory step, and will result in the abolition of sta-tute labor as rapidly as a better system can be properly assimilated. Statute Labor has been Beneficial. It cannot be asserted that statute labor has not in the past done much for the roads. On the contrary statute labor has done much for road improve- > nient in Ontario. Under pioneer and even later conditions, it was no 151 THE REPORT OF THE No. 27 doubt the best system that could have been adopted. Under circum-stances favorable to statute labor, settlers had no money, but couldcontribute labor; men were working anxiously in the forest
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