The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-11
lcontlnued from yesterday.l

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The heavy precipitation makes the
rivers of Panpma tofrentiai streams.
The Chagres. river has risen twenty
five feet in twenty.four hours. During
every season the records left by the
French and kept by the Americans
since +Aelr=aeeHRatio ion. show, that this
river discharges enough water to Oil
the prop9Sed Gatun lake one aud one
half times. It's not expected that any
lack OF water for the lock type canal
ever will be experienced.
Except for the beaten paths and
cleared spaces constantly maintained
the. jungle is king In Panama. One
seasons growth win cover an aban.
dorted clearing WITH the luxuriant
tropical vegetation When the Ameri.
cans entered tue canal zone most of
the French machinery and even whole
towns were covered by the jungle.
There are the usual tropical fruits,
bananas. cocoanuts. alligator pears.
papayas, mangoes and other less well
known varieties. The vegetation in
cludes the royal poinciana. palm anl
other stately trees. The rnrc
Is at home on the isthmus 81 -
enty-dve varieties being l,..... dozen
of which IRE. of the INST beautiful
kinds. A dry season of four months
does not parch the growth. but the
rainy season gives 1t the most brilliant
green coloring.
None of the big animal life of Africa
is found anywhere in South America.
and Panama has even less dangerous
species than the mainland The la
rantula, coral snake. tiger cats. deer,
and otherA larger though not SO dap
gerous animals are found and alllga-
tors abound in the rivers and hays rs
well as sharks. The insect life is Won
derfully varied. the birds are Ia infinite
variety and most beautiful, while wild
flowers of dazzling colors are in pro-
fusion. The canal zone. where occu-
pied in the canal operations, long since
was freed OF dangerous animal life.
Distinct but inconsequential earth.
quake shocks have been felt in Pana.
ma for centuries. The San Francisco
earthquake in 1906 was not recorded
on the canal zone seismograph. In the
seventeenth century a violent shock oc.
Cured, but none in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, nor has any been
recorded in the twentieth century, al
though in Costa Rica, the republic ad-
Joining Panama, severe shock in
1910 caused a considerable loss of life
and property. So far as past perform.
.ances can Indicate, the, canal should
mot suffer from earthquakes
The Atlantic and Pacific oceans are
on the same level, but the tide on the
Pacific side has maximum lift of
twenty-one feet, while on the Atlantic
side the maximum lift is only two and
one-half feet. Allowance for this va
ration was made by providing a deep.
ier channel for the canal on the Pacific
side. so that the passage of ships win
not be affected by the tides. The shape
of the bay of Panama causes the high
tide on the Pacific side.
AS there is not favorable geographi.
cal arrangement at either end of the
canal In the way OF harbors the de
tects have been supplied by breakwa-
tiers. At the Atlantic entrance break
water more than two miles long runs
from Toro point to shield ships lying
In the entrance from the violent north |
ers that occasionally sweep the coast
Another breakwnter a half. mile long
running out from the Colon water front
VIII protect shipping in that harbor !