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Rh, but soon to be moved to Balboa, at the Pacific end of the Canal, are kept busy assembling new machinery brought down from the United States, and repairing the worn parts of the steam-shovels, the hundreds of locomotives and thousands of cars. At Mount Hope, near

Colon, is a shipyard for the tugs and dredges of the Atlantic division, and a huge general storage yard and warehouse for everything from a ten-ton casting for a lock-gate to a box of thumb-tacks for fastening a blueprint of that gate to a drawing-board. Every necessary article is there and in its proper place; and the same is