The main south line of this road extends from Manila to Lucena in Tayabas. It has branches to Cavite in the province of the same name; to Naic in Cavite; to Pagsanján in La Laguna, and to Batangas in the Province of Batangas. The Philippine Railway Company has built and is now operating a line on Panay which extends from Iloilo to Capiz, and a line on Cebú which extends north from the city of the same name to Danao and south to Argao. The development of the road system is even more important than that of railroads. The following tables show the mileage of first-, second- and third-class roads, and the total number of permanent bridges and culverts, in existence at the end of each year, beginning with 1907:-- Public Works Statistics -------------+------------------------------------------------------- | Total Mileage of Roads in Existence +-------------+------------+--------------+------------- Fiscal Year | First-class | | Second-class | Third-class | Roads | Increase | Roads | Roads -------------+-------------+------------+--------------+------------- | | Per Cent | | 1907 | 303[172] | -- | -- | -- 1908 | 423 | 40 | -- | -- 1909 | 609 | 44 | -- | -- 1910 | 764 | 25 | 641[173] | 2,074[173] 1911 | 987 | 29 | 664 | 1,837 1912 | 1,143 | 16 | 1,342.1[173]| 1,999 1913[174] | 1,187[175] | -- | 1,305.3 | 1,967 -------------+-------------+------------+--------------+------------- -------------+----------------------- | Total of Permanent | Bridges and Culverts Fiscal Year | in Existence +------------+---------- | Number | Per Cent -------------+------------+---------- 1907[176] | 3,280[176] | -- 1908 | 3,631 | 11 1909 | 3,865 | 6 1910 | 4,372 | 13 1911 | 4,842 | 11 1912 | 5,181 | 7 1913 | 5,660 | 9 -------------+----------+------------