Mr.Scheerer now came to the front and guided us to the very thing that we were looking for, but had hardly dared hope to find; namely, a magnificent spring of crystal-clear water.

At that time it was flowing nearly a million gallons per day.

It burst forth from a hillside in such a manner as to make its protection from surface drainage easy, and we decided that there was nothing lacking to make Baguio an admirable site for the future summer capital and health resort of the Philippines.
It was obvious that the construction of a highway from San Fernando, in Union, to Baguio would involve considerable expense, and we asked Mr.Scheerer about other possible lines of communication.

A study of the Spanish maps had led us to consider two: one up the valley of the Agno River, and the other up that of the Bued River.

The latter route had the great advantage of affording direct communication with the end of the railway line at Dagupan.
Mr.Scheerer took us to a point which commanded a view for some distance down the Bued River valley, and conditions looked rather favourable.