| Show gold hill in alarm THE CRACKED OPEN fou eor A DISTANCE OF A QUARTER OF A mine mlle about three minutes walk in an til easterly direction from main street gold hill there is to be seen a most wonderful phenomenon the ground either from an earthquake or some other cause has recently split open for at least a quarter of a mile the crevice thus created starting at fort homestead I 1 crosses the railroad track and thence theace pursues a nearly southerly southerly direction down the west vest side of the he canon embraced between fort homestead and therill the hill hlll beyond it then crosses the canon and extends for a considerable sid arable arabie distance up the west side of the hill bill last named the crevice varies in width from one to twenty inches and in places appears to be bottor bottomless oless the crevice or chasm throughout its entire extent is as straight as an ar arro rowand Arand is of recent origin that it is something more thana thann a 1 landslide ind slide silde is evident from the fact that it crosses tile the canon in a direction nearly at right angles to the sarno saine the ground upon which the tow town ti of gold H hill ill lii is built seems to possess posse 49 the element of instability and in many cases the water pipes have pulled apart and boiler beds have got out of position owing to this elre eire circumstance un istance the question whither are we drift drifting is a pertinent ime oue gold ilu JIM jews active 0 operations ole erat crat rations ions lons were resumed before lil lii i aua on the of march oil on which day the bombardment of abanto was commenced |
