Photos of the Tuy-Balayan Road [October 1913, BPW Quarterly Bulletin]

These photographs are part of a series showing construction projects undertaken by the Bureau of Public Works during the American colonial era. All photographs have been digitally extracted from the Quarterly Bulletins of the bureau.

The photograph below is from the October 1913¹ edition of the quarterly bulletin and captioned: “Balayan-Tuy Road, finished section (Batangas Province).”

This second photograph below is also from the same edition and shows an unfinished section of the same road while it was still under construction. It was captioned, “Balayan-Tuy Road, under construction (Batangas Province).”

In the report on the project written by one J.H Caton, he noted that among the chief exports of western Batangas was sugar, and that Balayan was the primary shipping center in the area for the rice and corn that the area did not produce in bulk. The road from Tuy to Balayan, therefore, was intended to facilitate the movement of not only the rice and corn entering the area but also the sugar produced for export outside of western Batangas.

¹ “Bureau of Public Works Quarterly Bulletin, Volume 2 No. 3,” compiiled by C.A. Tansill, published October 1913 in Manila by the Bureau of Public Works.