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From the Governor’s House, one road leads to QUARRY 
HEIGHTS, Army Headquarters, and home of the Com¬ 
manding General. The other, downhill to the right, takes 
you to the ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, an impres¬ 
sive concrete structure which houses the Civil Govern¬ 
ment. The Library and Balboa Heights Post Office are on 
the first floor of this building, and the rotunda dome has 
interesting murals, depicting construction days, by Van 
Ingen. The Board Room on the third floor contains sev¬ 
eral etchings of those same days by the famous artist 
Joseph Pennell. 
The town of BALBOA, below the Administration 
Building, is a planned Government townsite dating back 
only to 1915. Here are the docks, extensive shops, and 
drydocks. The new JUNIOR COLLEGE and HIGH 
SCHOOL buildings are noteworthy examples of tropical 
architecture. ROOSEVELT AVENUE, which skirts the 
stadium and playing fields, leads from the College to the 
docks. The brightest noonday sun is powerless to penetrate 
the protective arches of its giant banyans. 
By automobile or bus a very interesting trip is out 
GAMBOA ROAD to the Summit Experimental Gardens, 
and then on the MADDEN ROAD to the Cruces Trail. 
You will pass Albrook Field, the civilian town of Diablo 
Heights, the Army engineers at Corozal, the big infantry 
post of Fort Clayton, the Miraflores Filtration Plant, the 
Miraflores and Pedro Miguel Locks which carry ships 
from sea-level up three steps to the level of Gatun Lake, 
the colored employees’ town of Red Tank, and the civilian 
town of Pedro Miguel. Just before Red Tank, at the 
junction with the Chiva Chiva Trail, is a magnificent 
cuipo tree, well-marked, and worth a moment’s stop. 
Beyond Pedro Miguel, on a high point of the road, there 
is an inspiring view back through the locks to the Pacific 
Ocean, and a short distance ahead loom the sheer walls of 
Gaillard Cut. The post of Paraiso is by-passed, and to 
your left, between highway and barracks, two lonely 
graves stand out on the hillside, marking the last resting 
place of two young engineers who worked on the French 
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The SUMMIT GARDENS are so named because they 
are located only half a mile from the Continental Divide. 
Operated by the Government, they include greenhouses, 
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nurseries and experimental plantings, a total of 51,501 
plants distributed over 125 acres of land. Seeds and 
plants are imported from abroad, primarily for the pur¬ 
pose of determining their adaptability to the local sod 
and their value to the inhabitants. Picnic tables with 
barbecue pits are scattered around the Gardens, and ma^ 
be reserved by private parties in advance. 
The Madden Highway swerves right from the Gamboa 
Road a short distance before the Garden is reached. I his 
road to the Canal Zone boundary, has been made a 
FOREST PRESERVE. Here is an opportunity to see 
the tropical jungle in all its regal beauty. This modern 
concrete highway bisects the ancient CRUCEb 1KA , 
the road the Spanish conquistadores built for their gold¬ 
laden mule trains. A small picnic spot has been set up 
at this crossing of old and new, and by walking a few yards 
back from the road, a strip of the original cobble-stoned 
trail, excavated and kept clear of jungle growth, may be 
seen. When the road enters Panamanian territory, the 
jungle is left behind. In the ten years since this road was 
completed, enterprising native farmers have cleared and 
planted the land, almost to the Madden Dam Reservation. 
The Dam may not be visited at present. 
WHAT TO DO IN COLON 
COLON is a jigsaw puzzle to the newcomer. Crowded 
on Manzanillo Island are Old Cristobal, New Cristobal, and 
Colon, where less than a hundred years ago only tangled 
jungle growth was connected with the mainland by a 
mangrove swamp. . . . . . i 
Colon is the Panamanian city raised from this jungle 
and swamp as a terminus for the Panama Railroad in the 
early eighteen-fifties. The Americans named it ^ 
wall in honor of the American builder of the railroad. 
The Colombians, who then owned this territory, called it 
Colon, the Spanish word for Columbus. For some years 
it was known by either name. Then the Colombians 
refused to deliver mail addressed to Aspmwall, which they 
said was non-existent, and that name gradually died out. 
The part of the Canal Zone adjacent to Colon and the 
waterfront is named CRISTOBAL, the Spanish word for 
Christopher. Closely hemmed in between Colon and the 
