RE-LOCATION OF RAILWAY ABOVE GATUN DAM 30
(The trestle embankment will run as a causeway across a bay of the
lake)
MOTOR TROLLEY FOR INSPECTION OF WORKS 30
(In the background are screened houses of employees)
TROPICAL FOREST, WITH HEAVY GROWTH OF PARASITIC PLANTS 36
JUNGLE WITH PIPE THROUGH WHICH OIL IS CONVEYED BY GRAVITATION
ACROSS THE ISTHMUS 36
CHAGRES RIVER NEAR BARBACOES 42
(In the dry season--looking down stream)
CHAGRES RIVER NEAR OBISPO 42
(In the dry season)
FRENCH DREDGER LAID UP 48
(Several of these have recently been put in use again)
FRENCH TRUCKS PARTLY COVERED WITH FOREST GROWTH 48
(Many of these were used at first by the Americans, but are now
replaced by larger ones)
EXCAVATION NEAR TAVERNILLA 52
RIVER CHAGRES AND RAILWAY NEAR GORGONA 52
LIDGERWOOD UNLOADER, WINDING APPARATUS 56
_ANOPHELES_ BRIGADE OILING A DITCH 56
100-TON WRECKING CRANE, GORGONA 62
INTERIOR OF MACHINE SHOP, GORGONA 62
MACHINE SHOPS, GORGONA 66
CLUB HOUSE FOR EMPLOYEES, GORGONA 66
(Managed by the Y.M.C.A.)
EXCAVATION IN THE CUT 72
PIPE FOR DIVERSION OF A RIVER, NEAR EMPIRE 72
IN THE CUT, WIDTH 500 FEET 76
IN THE CUT, LOOKING SOUTH TOWARDS CULEBRA 76
(The gorge between Golden and Silver Hills just visible)
ROCK DRILL 82
(These machines bore a hole 30 feet deep in eight hours)
ROCK DRILLS AT WORK IN THE CUT 82
THE CUT, LOOKING NORTH FROM CULEBRA 86
THE CUT, LOOKING SOUTH FROM CULEBRA 86
FROM CULEBRA, LOOKING EAST TO DISTANT HILLS 92
FROM CULEBRA, LOOKING EAST ACROSS THE CUT 92
(Terraces formed by landslip are just visible behind the smoke of a
distant steam shovel)
FROM CULEBRA, LOOKING EAST TO GOLDEN HILL 96
(Showing excavation in steps and ledges. Each ledge has carried a
railway track)
THE CUT AT CULEBRA, LOOKING NORTH 96
(The scarped face of Golden Hill on the right. Taken April, 1908, in
the then bottom of the cut, 120 feet above Canal bottom)
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