Show RAINY raimy DAYS ON THE ISTHMUS inhabitants of panama strip certainly cannot reproach nature eitl i niggardliness for nine months of 0 the year it rains some on the isthmus of panama the precipitation of one month not net long ago was 69 inches this broke even the panama rainy season record and nothing illie ilk e it has occurred since but with something like an average of twelve feet of rainfall in nine months the isthmus ean can keep up a showing of dampness without being worried about an ability to live up to soaking records gatun galun lake the artificial body ot of I 1 water created by col william 14 li sibert by the hard process of damming the unruly chagres chagares river la Is now at the close of the rainy season at the high level which the army officer predicted it would reach the cha gres grea pouring into the valley made the lake but the rains made the chagres chagares for the next three months the river riter will be little more than a trickling rill but water enough has been stored to keep the lake level as it is until the rains descend and the floods come coma once more as they have descended and come uninterruptedly ever since tho the day of balboa and since how long before nobody knows the united states government has built a lock canal across the isthmus of panama A sea level waterway would have been imperative it if the skies above the isthmus were not in the habit of weeping day in and day out for nine twelfths of the year some of the Pan amans through the years probably looked upon the drene bings as a curse but commet commerce must look upon them as a blessing every mile of the way through the canal except tor for the comparatively ively short distances of the ocean approaches the trading ships of the world will sail through fresh rain water vater all water s raf rain water but doewat doarn at panama somehow or other it seems as it if a liquid differentiation properly might be made |