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Show The Wedding of the Waters. .-, 4mv SOMETIMES the ceremony that will Ifl mark the finish of the Panama C.tnaL MH which will mingle the wa,tcrs of; the ' jtjfH Atlantic with those of the Paeilichas ' if'H been spoken 'of an "the wedding of the II Hi waters." If so, it is to ho the selonc ji ill wedding, although it is uot generally Irijl known that the waters mingled for Urn JjH first time in December, 1010. They vverc 'ifljH brouglit together through the first" po Mll line that extended across thccoutlncut, 11 JfH pipe line constructed by a California Oil jlH company, and which, when completed, llB wns rrst tested by sending through italic iiiH wntcr of the Pacific, tested up to eight. . fll himdrod pounds pressure. flH The pipo line was built by laborers fll from Jamaica and it was eoui)Ielcd in fll six mouths. Tho work started with the xll lietrinniiiii of the miiiv season and was iHI completed at its cud. In one place jLhc flH men woikexl through n pouring rain for, IfiH three weeks, up to their waists in water lil in a swamp, part of the lime on a floating jlB platform, and they laid the lino in' one ilfl plneo on a flouting raft of log's 'u ,iu"li IfUI long, and the lottom could not b(vi6aehedJ llH The pipo line through .which the otl.ii ffNI pumped 10 the Atlantic side of, tho. Ishr IHI mus of Panama followsthe Hue of tho jtHI Panama Railroad nnd is about fouy- eight miles loug. The pipe hold? ir),000 H barrels of oil. From yea level to the -' 'H summit, near Culobra. the totallifL'ia '- H about two hundred and twenty-five fect.( 'M |