Panama and the canal . Coming of the Pay Train. fully appreciate all that has been done along the routeto make it a comfortable and healthful place Culebra in which to work. When we reach such a neat, clean, well-built town as Culebra, for instance, we 2IO NEAT, CLEAN, WELL-BUILT. THE MONSTER DAM 211 can scarcely realize that here was once a dense jungle unfitfor human habitation. Now we find a town of 5,000people. It has its own electric light plant, water works,sewage system, library, and club houses. The streets areclean and the houses dry and comfortable. So it is allalong the line. Of cou
Panama and the canal . Coming of the Pay Train. fully appreciate all that has been done along the routeto make it a comfortable and healthful place Culebra in which to work. When we reach such a neat, clean, well-built town as Culebra, for instance, we 2IO NEAT, CLEAN, WELL-BUILT. THE MONSTER DAM 211 can scarcely realize that here was once a dense jungle unfitfor human habitation. Now we find a town of 5,000people. It has its own electric light plant, water works,sewage system, library, and club houses. The streets areclean and the houses dry and comfortable. So it is allalong the line. Of course, the two points of greatest interest arc theGatun Dam and the Culcbra Cut. The monster dam isto be nearly a mile and a half long, across the . ,, ^ Gatun Dam Chagrcs valley. It is difhcult to find a pointfrom which we can view the whole of it. Let us take ourstand on the hillside near the cut for the Gatun the distance are the hills on the opposite side of thevalley, and spread out before us is the valley itself withthe Chagres ri^•er winding l^ack and forth along it. At ourfeet is the cut for the flight of three locks. They willhave a usable length of 1,000 feet, a width of no feet, anda total lift of 85 feet. There are no locks of this size in theworld. Th
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