I was assured by Captain Meade that from this point on the line ran through dirt most of the way, so that the road could be completed very rapidly.

This statement proved to be grossly in error.

It took years of hard work to open up the road.
Its cost when finally ready for traffic was $1,961,847.05.

Its length was forty-five kilometers eight hundred ninety-one meters, [507] of which thirty-four kilometers were in non-Christian territory.

Some ten kilometers of the remainder have since been incorporated in the first-class road system of the province of Pangasinan, as this part is chiefly used by the people of that province in shipping their agricultural products to Benguet, and in maintaining communication between their towns.
The additional cost of the road to date [508] since it was first opened is $792,434, making its total cost to date $2,754,281.05.