| Show 4 ilk r JL I 1 buccaneers once sh irr ere jungle life no ro it yo D finds refuge f a tr th J 11 V mi fil r tb r C I 1 he CA I 1 be rj to sh 1 t h KA to in pau cc 1 rut 1 abou colda by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN ONO 00 long ago was wa it m written ritten that man should hae bae dominion over the earth and sea and air now that the prophecy is largely ful filled man Is doing strange things to the face at nature ue ile drives hia his roads through great peaks of granite he ile causes rivers to flow up stream he ile makes a desolation here was a forest lie ile cuts through the lands of the globe to connect the beven seas thereof so he rains gains his aim he Is care les le s of other results and often these tn b products are odd and interesting bo it Is with uncle sams sam a cutting of the panama canal it was more than years ago the old spanish records say septem be bee 23 25 1513 that vasco nunez de balboa achieved immortality as the first of white men to see the pacific ocean orem standing on the peak of mount perri A few days later in mail and plumed helmet with drawn sword sord and the spanish flag he waded into the south sea and took possession of its waters aters in n the name of spain bal bat boas discovery announced to the world that america was a new con eon and not a part of asia ten years later little fleet called around the globe and thereupon zed man began to itch with desire to cut through the isthmus of panama and unite the waters of ot the atlantic and the pacific it remained for a nation not born bom for nearly three centuries after oer balboa to cut the isthmus in 1914 the state states of america opened the panama ranal canal to the truffle of the seven seas the canal cost but today ten year years after its completion it pays tn in dollars and cents all other considerations aside A feature of the panama canal Is gatun galun lake take an artificial lake perched un up on the backbone of the isthmus perhaps it Is the crowning achievement in the construction construct lon of the canal in asrouch as it represents the taming and harnessing of the chaves river our engineers found that the canal would have to cross emm the bed of the chagres chagares a score of times they also found that the Cb Cli agres lo 10 time of heavy eavy rains would rise 40 or BO feet and sweep everything before it our en gibbers solved the problem by build ing gnoun dam the biggest dam in the world this great dam blocked the chaires chagres in its way by to the atlantic the chagdes thereupon backed up and made gatun galun lake like with an area of square miles and a surface 85 83 feet above the ocean level now it may rain with torrential violence over the 1330 square miles of tie tle chagres chagares basin basla and the level of lake rises but a few inches moreover the tile water of galun lake take in its drop to tea sea level furnishes the hydroelectric power tor for the operation of the canal cabal locki locks er 1 ance 6 0 7 bow tv in 1 the now the creaton of 0 an artificial lake of IGI square miles abere was jungle before naturally turns things tops from many points of view clie wild lid life of the jungle for example did not know what to make of the steadily rising waters probably it thought for a while bille that it going to be much of a flood anyway anay and simply moved to higher ground but tn in the end when ullen the viator unter rose oer the tops of the trees of the lower levels there was panic among the jungle animals and a grand rush to escape from the region but gome some of them delayed too long with the result that the islands formed in gagua gatun lake became their only refuge one of these islands in gatun galun lake has been given the name of barro colorado in the picture that shows gatun galun lake from galun lock it Is in the tipper right hand corner it Is about six air square miles in extent and Is covered with the luxuriant vegetation and forest growth of the panama jungle recently it was discovered that barro colorado was literally alive with a collection of animals rivaling that of many an ambitious zoo and containing much strange wild wilo life that even the most pretentious zoological gardens never sec see thereupon gov jay ay J borrow irrow of the canal zone now retired set the island aside as a national reservation under federal government protection prote cUon so heres an odd and interesting thing through the channel of galun lake passes an almost continuous procession of freight and passenger vessels this year tear more morer than vessels will be in ili that merchant marine parade in the last ten years more than vessels have gone through each passes almost close enough to barro colorado to heave a line into its greenery and on barro colorado 1 Is a this refuge camp of wild animal I 1 life ife driven from its native jungle by the waters that make possible the procession of ships david a 0 fairchild famous botanist of the united states department of agriculture who since 1 has traveled to the ends of the earth looking for new things Is greatly interested in barro barre colorado he ile and other scientists are making a beginning of the exploration and study of this strange natural zoo so presently we shall know of its zoological treasures it Is said aid to be a veritable noah ark of central american wild animal life and it I 1 IS reported that there are some queer specimen specimens that puzzle the scientists enlists ts A fairly reliable list of the animals go 60 far catalogued on barro darro colorado includes the sloth peccary ama armadillo dUlo ting nor coati tia thu hot there and I 1 IY black hole are 1 keys and droll der ana White keys of thab till fact pey prey there u is 11 or two bad I 1 there are colne call there am C III 1 luaces irk 1 4 P arrarte are mask bats spiders tel boa ant to lark rw ats clori but the I 1 1 tarl golan lake I 1 bats ar more than aown do 4 square miles of IN jungle and b 1 little of iti its wild animal life on rim that colorado Colom do they have obliterated ta vel of a historic highway a 0 tire equal la in the annals of advent un urial ul romance 1 U hy by this was spain old tram 1 madl road in the days of the spanish kil rd wha and die the buccaneers Bucca it was it OH 09 G panama on mer de sad that plo ro fitted filled out his fleet for tbt the 0 mu quest of pent peru and that W his ills army of 2 pirates won loot bo b mee yond counting when they defeated 4 I 1 pau spaniards and captured alad to 4 strayed the city from prom old P 1 tha the treasure road paved with lri efte round stones by order of a ran to venta de cruzes ca on its ft chaves Ch agres toll gate en on till isa A ter mus thence by boat down the dom or across country to combre dt dl DK DW on mer aler de nord NOW and U 14 las deep la in gatun galun lake iles tent tents ft dl filth cruzen today A twalure train WM was to start tu U tak night tor for a treat spanish tent lemA the treasure urn lima wu was lw av to par pass into spun spain in a swift win 0 ii w which wa was stayed tor for him tt at d de e alos ills dangl flaughter iter and family pale coming with him having fourlow to mule mules in company of A aich klimt T albe laden with rold gold and one with jita go after this troop two other foam of t 9 0 mule mules in each would tak the tb tort IVA S tarrying arr victuals and win whis 10 tota W tive beet fleet with lomo some little quantity ot of 0 a wa ver frol so wrote in ln 1573 sir fracis MIA of prince of pirates as well yell as of ua w batom of the trea treasure surd train I 1 M lap planned to capture at cruzes AM JA i capture it be did and looted tooted oto po too ile found there band some ram pa houses for the spanish officer cerl buc warehouses and a church and 10 1 bac astery containing above a thousia sh bulls and pardons newly sea sent i fro arm one rome as the cruzes that the waters of 0 ct gt wit tun lake wiped out was sal GO OD bamboo huts its eole sole relic tl f rud church cc conal 0 greatness wa was a stone MI las ing three ancient bells bell emch 00 ten alarm against brkl dr have rung the ii sic transit glorit SO bo od a I 1 eone gone from the 11 western world tat greater treasure ure ulgart Is the bew history |
