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Show ROCK -THAT !Wiliia-:BEND Stranrc Specimen of Flexible; Flex-ible; Stone Is on ExM-bitloh ExM-bitloh In iSalt Lake. : , , -;; ;.. One of tbe strangest specimens of .mineral formation ver see In Utah la "on exhibition at the clgarstand in the Kenyon hotel. . X. , ' It Is a piece of a rock known aa Xto Column, which meana pllabls atone. It Is all the name Implies. The specimen Is about ten Inches long, two' Inches wide end one Inch thick and weighs about as much as a piece of marble the same size. - . ' To pick it up it looks and feels very much like an ordinary piece of hard, dark gray sandstone. ... ... On closer examination it will bo dis- covered that It l Quit pnawa ana can b bent In any direction quite readily. If taken by one end and shaken back and forth It bends liko a piece of hard rubber and gives out a crackling noise as though It were jointed. - r Even if placed on a table with aa Inch or two extended over the edge and held firmly the short extended wnd can be bent ouite perceptibly with but little lit-tle exertion. - ' ' -' This curious piece of stone was brought nets by Luke Dewey, who re-. re-. eently arrived from Alabama. - Mr. Dewey says there Is quite a deposit de-posit of the strange' formation in the hill country of that State. 'It Is valueless value-less so far as is known except as a curiosity.. cu-riosity.. ;---- Nothing similar to it has ever been found In this part of the country,' and mining men and students of mineralogy In Salt Lake are greatly interested la the rock, and those who have a mineral cabinet are anxious to get . a specimen Of it.- -I - ' ' : |