In the event of its failure to do so, it must pay a monthly penalty amply sufficient in amount to cover the cost of maintaining the Benguet Road.

Baguio will continue to develop steadily until the railroad is opened and then will go ahead by leaps and bounds.

It is sure to prosper because it meets a very real and very imperative need.
In this connection the following extracts from a letter of August 7, 1913, from the director of medical services in India to the department surgeon of the Philippines are of interest:-- "In reply to your letter of June 31st I attach a statement showing the number and location of the hill stations in India with the approximate capacity of each, and their height above sea-level.
"With regard to your inquiry regarding the number of cases treated in these sanitaria we use these hill stations not only for the treatment of convalescents, but also for giving healthy men an opportunity of spending the Indian hot weather under the best climatic conditions procurable.

To this end, so far as is practicable, all units are sent to the hills for the first hot weather after their arrival in India, and they are thus able to settle down to their new conditions of life without being immediately exposed to the trying and enervating environment of a plains station in the summer months.

We also send as many soldiers as we can of the older residents from hot stations to summer in the hills.
* * * * * "Practically all soldiers' wives and families are given an opportunity of a change from the more unhealthy stations to the hills during the hot weather.
* * * * * "Our experience shows that the following cases are most benefited by a change to the hills:-- "1.