The Philippine problem 1898-1913 . inthe last year much progress has been madein linking these together. There were three mil-lion dollars available for roads in 1912. With-in the coming several years, great strides are-promised in this direction; and within fiveyears, continuous systems will be completedin the majority of the provinces, and nearly allthe large towns will be in touch with each otherwith hard, smooth roads, with groomed grassslopes, clean ditches, and a right of way prop-erly maintained. On January i, 1913, therewere almost eleven hundred miles of the heavy-surfaced and four hu
The Philippine problem 1898-1913 . inthe last year much progress has been madein linking these together. There were three mil-lion dollars available for roads in 1912. With-in the coming several years, great strides are-promised in this direction; and within fiveyears, continuous systems will be completedin the majority of the provinces, and nearly allthe large towns will be in touch with each otherwith hard, smooth roads, with groomed grassslopes, clean ditches, and a right of way prop-erly maintained. On January i, 1913, therewere almost eleven hundred miles of the heavy-surfaced and four hundred of the light-surfacedroads. The two main road projects now being workedout are: (i) The Manila-North road, which is to runfrom Manila to Bangui, the extreme northernpoint of Luzon, a distance of 350 miles. (2) The Manila-South road, which will ex-tend from the capital city to Sorsogon, situatedon the extreme southern end of the will be more than three hundred mileslong, and when it is done, there will be a first-. Benguet Road. Lower Section of Zig-zagFROM Camp Boyd. GOOD ROADS 137 class, permanent, smooth road from one endof the island to the other, 650 miles in is made daily, and before the close of1913, that portion to the north will go as far asPangasinan, so that one can then travel byautomobile in the dry season to Sibul Springsand to Baguio, the summer capital, a distance ofsome 150 miles. This will afford a market fora great section of rice fields now languishingfrom the lack of it. By 1914 that much roadwill be heavy enough to be in permanent use,and in 1917 the entire north road to Banguishould be of that character, too. By March, 1912, the Manila-South road wasopened all the way from Manila to the PacificOcean, at or near Gumaca (a little beyondAtimonan), a distance of 120 miles. This iscapable of continuous use. A through roadfrom Nueva Caceres to Legaspi, in Albay (inextreme south), a stretch of some sixty miles,will very shortly b
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