Show da ATUN tan cummo to fa ak A i at t q we 1 V p 1 r I 1 ir we 1 13 where jungle life now finds IV not I 1 q 4 I 1 I 1 k A 1 al F A v 14 1 0 air 9 ja 1 7 by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN ONG long ago go we was it written that man should bar have dominion over the earth and ad sea are BOS it air no now that in the prophecy is IB largely ful filled man Is As doing mm strange things to the J far face at nature he eta drives his roads reads through gre great n I 1 peaks of gcarl granite is he ge momme causes rivers to flow up stream ile he make adem a desolation where was a forest ile he cuts through the lands of the globe to connect tile the seven sume seas thereof so he gains his aim he I 1 is care less of other results and often these hy by PC products ducts are 0 odd ild and inter interesting C sting so it 1 Is with 1 biars un and r Is sum sams cutting of tile pa panama CAU canal I it a as aa more than vr v r ago th the m old spanish records say aay septem ber b or 25 1513 thit abit vasco nunez notes do sni balboa 0 a ach achieved leed immortality as a the first of white men to see the pacific ocean standing on tile the peak of mount boerl A few deva aaa later in ha mail mah bad and p plumed mad helmet with mith drawn sword and abu the spanish pa ong flag he wadea into the south sea and took possession of its waters t I 1 in the same name of spain be boom boa 9 discovery announced announced to the world that america was a new con and not a part of asia TOO ten yein later magulias Ilage lions little fleet ailed round around the globe and there upon civili civilized il man began to itch with i desire to cut through the isthmus of panama and unite milt the waters of the atlantic suit and tile the pa pacific clel c it remained a mad tor far a OUR nation not of hem born it pr to for nearly 0 or ay I 1 time three centuries after bal boa to lo cut the isthmus in 1114 1914 the states of america opi opened ed the panama canal to the traffic of the sol seven seas the canal cost but to dy 61 ton ten venom veara after jim its completion it pave pass in dollars nod and met cents all it other C considerations Idom flom aside aide A feature of the panama canal Is gagua ten lake an artificial lake perched up p on the backbone of the isthmus perhaps it 1 Is the Irom crooning log achievement I 1 in tile the construction of the canal in aam A as pt it represents tile turning taming and harnessing n of the chagares chagres river our engineers found that the canal would auld imle to cross r the bed of the chagris chagres a delre ecore of times they also found that tile the cleanse Ch agres in time of heavy kalbs would rise 40 or 50 feet and d sweep everything before it our auca en sim era solved the problem by build ing dmn dam the biggest dam 1 in the world this great dam blocked the agres in its way may to the atlantic the chagra the thereupon backed up and ad made gatun galun lake with an area of square miles and a surface 65 85 feet above the an 1 11 1 now it mi rain with torren I 1 violence jonm oer nice the ile I 1 1 0 in or enli of tle cam bail nand bild the level lamel of gatun galun lake rise but few inch moreover the its water later of gatun galun lake in its drop to sea level fumble tile the hydro hydroelectric olm let power for the operation of the carmi canal luck now new the creation of an artificial lake of 0 square miles where jungle before naturally turns things toper turry from many points of view tho the wild life of the jungle for ex ce ample did not know what to make of th the I 1 steadily rising waters probably it thought for a while idle that it want going to be ba much of a flood away anyway and simply moved to higher ground around but in the tha end and when th the water rose over the topa top of the trees fees of the lower levels levela there them was as panic among the jungle animals and a grand ruah cash to escape from the region but scene bome of them delayed too long with the re sult suit that the launch islands formed in gatlin lake became their only andy refuge one of these islands in damn gatun lake b haa u hem been given the name of barro barm colorado in the picture that tha t sho bhola 8 gat galun gatun lake from union lock it la Is in the upper right hand car corner it la 18 about six square miles in extent and to la covered with mith the luxuriant voleta ron and forest growth of the panama jungle recently it was waa discovered and that sum barro Colo colorado call was literally alive 11 collection with n collection of animals rivaling that of many an ambitious kno BOO and containing much strong wild life that j a even a the most pretentious ecological gardens garden never see thereupon go gov say jay J morrow of the canal zone no now ce retired set the island aside as a na an dional rese reservation ration under federal gov eminent protection S bo A here hem a an aft odd and interesting thing through the channel clinn nel of galun gatun lake passes a an almost continuous pro pre al of freight and passenger vessels this you year me more ile than va ves selb sale will III be in the that t merchant amt marine permits parade in the last ten fan ears can more the than 25 vessels a as 1 a h have se A gone one through each passes passe almost close enough to barro barm colorado to heave leave a line 8 into ita be greenery and on OD bonn barro colorado 1 Is this refuge C CP camp P of 01 wild life brhen fro from it ita native jungle by the waters later that make possible the procession of soup ehica david 0 fairchild famous arloua batau botanist at of the united states department of ag agriculture r who since face 1895 I 1 ahna egv tied to the ends of the earth to looking g for new things filings Is greatly interested in barro colorado he and other set eel are making a beginning of the exploration sell and study or this strange amuse natural BOO oa so presently we me ahall know knew of its if zoI gIr I 1 treas treasures urea it 1 Is said old to be n veritable noun baha ark rk of central american wild gild animal we life and it Is 1 reported period that there them are some queer sped specimens spedden nen that puzzle the set bel enlists A fe fairly I 1 ris nil reliable b Is list or of tile ie animals 8 BO far catalogued cataloguer catalo gued on barro colorado includes include the aloth pe peccary ceary armadillo goltl coati tap tapir r an ant eating bear and hedge hog there are an certain ly black howler homier monkeys and probably app der and whiteface mankey of tl if a beasts of 0 prey there than la Is a jaguar 0 or two and P bably tc there am are some smaller cats is there are earles eagles feol get turns to tou eana cie pa and Parra keet them use are asks including the boa constrictor bats be reptiles slide 8 ants and in sects is gilore but the waters of gathia get loss lake have h it dona more the than drown a lew few square q mile of PA panama junk jungle and ad maroon a little of its wild animal life on an herris barro colorado they have bale obliterated most of a historic highway As an highby equal in the Ana aimola milis of mi advent mg uK and ad re romance nuance why this was spain old measure tras nr road mad in the days of the spanish main and the buccaneers Bucca it we was at old panama on mer de sud that P pizarro izor sami fitted fl is out him I 1 fleet ifor for the conquest of peru pace and that and his army of 2 pirates won wall lout loot b be yond road counting when they defeated 8 i spaniards and captured and cl destroyed the city from old P panama in the treasure road mad paved with large ierg round stores stones by order of plan pizarro ran con to vents vent a de craze crusea on an the Clo cloures Oh agres gres spot spain a toll gate on the lath ma mils thence by boat down the river or across country to combee nombre de DID atoa on her do dc nord and 14 tethers fathoms deep in gagua gatun lake lies venta ants de cans today A treasure train was to tart start vier that m night I 1 to or a great spanish the u treasurer ot at wins lima we waa II intending in to paea 11 1 into 1 spain in in will ah sn s ID n which was T a for h him at N abl de as dlo hla 1 d daughter hi mad and fairal family war mig with him having f fourteen tes 1 1 in company of whim which light war m laden 1 with gold old mud one with jews dewal all after r this thi t troop P two other r 1 of I 60 auls 5 A would take the md f m ad miss to m A hoet with will homo little OuI quantity ily of I 1 liver so wrote 1 in 1 57 3 sir irr prances line Is 1 duahe ke prince of pilots as well it es of navigators of the treasure train be b planned to capture at aruns and capture it he did and looted cams too he found there I handsome also a tells houses for 0 the spanish office of ficera bit and warehouses and ad A a church and ad mon emery mountains containing above a th thousand it b bulla and ard pardons newly IY sent lent train from liu inome a the CIA that the waters ten t of GO ga tun too lake wiped out was A a village of W b bamboo n alb huts its sale aole relic mile of past g a to we was a tons stone church containing three ancient bells which may bale m rung the alarm against drake hi tile transit gi gloria in spain is 15 g one a from the Vir jirmars Mars world and creater far tre treasure tream am highway I 1 Is am making 9 lew history |