Samuel E. Kane, American supervisor and then Governor, established the capital here after the Philippine Commission passed the Mountain Province Act in 1908, building a provincial building, hospital, doctor's office, nurse's home, a school, and provincial prison.
 He also built the Tagudin-Bontoc trail, which by 1926, could accommodate a small car.
Samuel E. Kane, American supervisor and then Governor, established the capital here after the Philippine Commission passed the Mountain Province Act in 1908, building a provincial building, hospital, doctor's office, nurse's home, a school, and provincial prison.  He also built the Tagudin-Bontoc trail, which by 1926, could accommodate a small car.
Bontoc, Mountain Province