The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-08-22

z.-I am going to take you
 completed Panama canal
 vessel to pass across the
 m the Atlantic ocean to
 True. the canal is not yet
 md will not be for 8 year
 bat shall not prevent our
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 hgine ourselves. then. on
 bf Approaching the Allan
 rn entrance of. the great
 rcd to enjoy this initial
 wonder at the sights in
 In that word northern"
 surprise for many of the
 fs who did not know tkat
 hl runs not from east to west
 u northvest to southeast This
 ! anomaly is due to the fact
 Isthmus of Panama here
 E1most east and west.
 stil early morning when .
 h. passenger shouts Land.
 ho are up rush to the port
 Ezzen upon the hilly, jungly
 the isthmus between Porto
 Id Colon. As the steamship
 sRfftly through the waters az
 ever were those of the Medi-
 an a cheer goes up from the
 Tor we have caught glimpse of ars and Stripes futtering above ge of cocoanut palms. That s the location of one of the big built to protect the canal in time var and is on Margarita island. ually part of the mainland. lon, fiat and unpicturesQue, now Ines into view, and directly ahead us an immense breakwater kretches mile out from the shore Ia the right At it's land end, on |oro point, Is another fort whose reat guns are masked by the tropical Mage. = kl. for the 50O-foot channel extends out from the shore lfne- At re- ed speed we enter Colon harbor ] the Bay of Limon and steam past pretentious Washington hotel, Un- Sam. proprietor; the docks of pn, crowded with shipping from United States, Europe and many bort of Latin America, and the erican town of Cristobal on whose Ter front stands the statue of Co hbus sent over long years ago by Empress Eugenie. Skipping about bay, looking like long, black water etles, are the cayukas or native dug It's. and moving lazily before the sea reeze are the little sailing craft in hich the queer San Bias Indians are Einging their products to market.
 -Four miles and a half we steam rough Limon bay and the shores rrow in on our 500-foot channel, Il at tide level. Now look ahead ree miles and get glimpse of the ltun locks, that tremendous flight of ree water steps up which we are to lifted. In few minutes we reach own power is shut of and the uric locomotives on the lock walls us in tow. Four of these power machines attach their hawsers to hip, two in front to pull it and two Tn to keep it steady and to bring stop when entirely within the chamber. The immense gates silently behind, us and at once water begins to flow into the mber through colverts that have ssir openings in the concrete floor. lowly the vessel rises until it is on level with the second chamber, |s IS feet above sea level, when the sate ahead is opened and the electric nu1es move forward, this time up a heavy grade by means of the center acks in the tracks. Twice this opera ion is repeated. and now we are at he summit, S5 feet above the sea. che last gate opens and the iocomo- s pull us into Gatun lake.
 our propellers begin to turn kin and we steam out into this i'm ense artificial lake, a marvelously seautifui landscape is spread before Ae surface of the lake is dotted
 ets, once the summits of Tiger
 h hill and a-~dozen other emi-
 on both sides are steep pro-
 es, lovely little peninsulas and
 ys and inlets where the water
 had into the once jungle-filIed
 we get too far from the
 It us step to the starboard rail nave a look at the Gatun dam, ,normous stretch of rock. sand and .lay that has formed Gatun lake by the waters of the Chagres fver. It is in reality a low ridge, one md a half miles long, built across the raIley, and when we are told that it . nearly half mile wide at its base, Ieo feet wide at the water surface and 100 feet wide at it's crest, which fs twenty feet above the level of the ake, how utterly ridiculous seem the ears of those alarmisfs who predicted he dam would be pushed over by the in time of Doodi