Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-05

tN'i Ip THE tANAi4s
carried by the natives There is hardly
room for q horse along the line of the
road 49, the train passes 80 dense Is the
vegetation
continued my Journey through fat
level land until got u little south of
Ahpr"u Lugurtu, whore the canal twice
rrossvs the ChaErcs. and where dcri
Ntliun7 have been provided To keep the
canul east Of The river Here ! saw
Wide areas ir huuJnR farms along the
hills and busy londiug of the fruit
Ground Is being cleared Tor moro farms.
ana / understand the industry is ina the
| hands of one company that IL realizing
large profits from 10. Here as in all the
villages, and in the STREETS of Panama.
Tor that mnttor, the little children run
rat aud sleek In the sun entirely naked
AZ Bujio there Il big cut aud tho
thugrcs Is loft 10 the cast Then from
TINS cu' the canal passes again into the
| Chugrcs valley, which IL follows to San
Pablo. Thurc Is ut Buio high. steep
quarry, from which IL is calculated by
some that the cuny0ssed dumto huck the
| ChQgrcs up against the river could be-
built
AZ San Pablo there is some light rock
| cutting, and here the email crosses the
| Panama railroad AZ we'll ms the Chagrcs
river Between Buiio and San Pablo
| are FulOlcs and Iuvernila little tay-
] ctn). Al the latter plncc there is much
| drcdgepipe and 4 M0ticcd fOrty-seycn
| ears going Ia pieces, but there were
| Some lohorcT srraping the iron and
| painting IL over. One sCcs many of those
! wonderful nut beds i'm this region. and
! the banana farms continue the most of
/ the way To lrilolos. AZ SAN Pablo |
! counted sixty exposed 90 rs and IXty.tyyo
| others much demolished but the en-
Elnes, OF which there are a good many,
! After crossing the Chngres nj Snn
| Pablo | saw heavy rock cutting again.
] undoubtedly great amount of work
| has been done just here This rock cut-
! ting extends for Two miles, To Mamc
! From Mnmci To Gurgoua the cannl IL
again along the Cbagyes valley Cor
. gouu itself ia ON high hill with the
I udor Of flowers about H. AZ San Pablo
| l noted several dodgers, four of them
| moorrd, as well as engines, dump cars
| aud cNcayatOrs. Just south of Mamei
| ARE two very large dredges anchored out
| in the thagres river North OF Gorgonu
! is n large material yard. also dredge
] and 40 Gorgona proper there is another
| heavy rock cutting ! saw here great
1 lot OF neglected machinery -cXcaVutOrs
| cranes, dump ears and engines, There
! Is too, q railroad quarry not connected
| however with the canal | was told
thar the rock was not most desirable be-
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worn away 10y weather
From Gorgona We went 10 Natnchin,
where the canal runs along the Chagres
valley II mean the limo of the canal, not
water through low bottom land, with
no cuttings worth mentioning Al
| MNtchiu the canal crosses the present
bed OF the Chngres river for the last
| time. The machinery hero, together
With the fifteen engines ! counted, Is
generally wei housed. saw mon
crawling about with fever aud flower
girls running along with their wares.
with strange sensations resulting from
the autithesis.
After crossing the ChaGres at Maa-
chin. ] came 20 another heavy rock cut-
ting at BIAS Obispo which extends for
three-Qunrters Of n mile TO Haul Obisp0.
Then follows the valley &c the Obisno
river 70 las Casc0das Most OF the way
Is marked by diticp's rock cutting.
which drops OF, however lightly toward
the end, At Bias Obispo the engines arr
we'll housed
After leaving Gorgona there are no
more dredgeS, all eNcpYNtors, 10 Culebra,
There are tower dredges however, "a
which launches bring the material from
che cuttings Then the material Is ele-
vQiod with water Go the tower dredge
mi slulced out. There are ON both sides
OF Culebra cut, AZ Los Cascades, With