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Workers on the construction site of the Rio Cobre Dam in St. Catherine, Jamaica. Men are standing around a stone crushing machine and barrels of rocks. Woman filling barrel with rocks; boulders and stone wall in background.

Workers preparing the course for a 8 feet steel flume beside the Rio Cobre River in the Bog Walk Gorge

Men standing inside a section of unassembled steel pipes alongside the Rio Cobre River in St. Catherine, Jamaica. The area is surrounded by thick vegetation.

A section of the 8 feet flume constructed in the gorge along side the Rio Cobre River among trees and shrubs.

Workers working to complete the dam across the Rio Cobre River in St. Catherine, Jamaica

Five men looking at the straining basin across the Rio Cobre River close to the dam in the background.

Women carrying containers of stones on their heads for the dam construction in progress.

Photograph of the largest pipe in the world in 1904 - measuring 6,200 feet long, 8 feet in diametre, weighing 1,700,000 pounds and held together by 260,000 rivets. It was built to convey water from the Rio Cobre River running beside it.

Concrete pipe saddles on the bank of the Rio Cobre River in the Bog Walk Gorge

Dr. G. Malalasekera United Nations Permanent Representative of Ceylon arriving at Kings House, Jamaica