Show A SCARY STORY FROM BUTTE Mountains About Copper City Aro Constantly Slipping Butte Mont April 12A portion of Butte believed to embrace the larger part of tho big hill upon which some I of the Anaconda mInes are located has I made a very perceptible movement southwestward during the past few days At the foot of the Anaconda I hill the slide pushed the tracks of the street railway line about six Inches for distance of about 300 feet along the road As there are no large buildings In that part of the city no damage was done except to the railroad tracks and but for their displacement the slide would not have been noticed Geologists and scientific men claim that the nellre range of mountains about Butte is constantly moving and that the sliding process which has been going on for years and has crushed and mixed the copper veins and ore bodies in tho Butte district and displaced many of them Is still going on About a year ago a similar slide occurred In the western part of the city and right in the heart of the resi dence portion The county courthouse the handsome residence of Senator W A Clark several churches and other buildings were seriously cracked the residence of Senator Clark having a fissure about two inches wide through the entire building from east to west and the street car tracks In several pRwes wtre humped up by the sliding movement I The statement is made by a well known mining man that the collar shaft of the Green Mountain mine one of the Anaconda properties has I moved In ten years about Mix feet The strange phenomenon is regarded I with Interest by scientific men but no danger is apprehended from It |