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Show Sliding Of A Mountain The trouble on tho Tcllurlde branch of tho Hio Grand Southern railroad has been occasioned, not by an ordinary ordin-ary landslide, but by the moving of a mountain. Where this remarkable phenomenon occurs I J about live miles from Tellurldo on Keystone mountain where the Keystone mine Is located' locat-ed' When the movement was first discovered In June of last year, six inches in-ches per week were made according to measurements, and comparatively little lit-tle attention was paid to it. In February Feb-ruary the movement Increased to such an extent that the mine people took up their pipe lines, walled up their tunnel and awaited results. On June 20th the slide Is said to have given trouble by running two feet and afterward after-ward ran about four feet a day. The last attempt at crossing on the railroad rail-road was made on June 31st when two cars of coal wero dragged across by means of a rope. Twelve hundred feet of track was then taken to a place of safety. Tho estimate of the acreage acre-age moving according to dlircr-cnt dlircr-cnt reports is from 10 to 150 acres of land and the vast body has moved as much as 20 foot per day, covering tho railroad bed to a depth of 100 feet, Tho speed of the movement slackened the latter part of the week and Wednesday Wed-nesday It was said to havo moved only about one foot In four days. That's easy and tho people over there think It Is standing entirely still when It only on-ly moves that fast. So, the roadmaster of the Southern started In to work on Sunday, making a now roadbed preparatory pre-paratory to laying track with as much apparent assurance as though he was not laying track on a moving mountain. moun-tain. Tho Tellurldo Journal of Monday Mon-day says concerning the new track being be-ing laid: "The track will have a couple of curves it did not have before the slide, but they are not abrupt enough to hinder any. "It Is thought by some that in Its downward course the hill had built up a foundation perhaps stronger than before.as It was not a surface slide hy any means, but seemed to be working from the bottom, permitting the immense im-mense boulders to get down underneath under-neath and form Ing a better foundation than ever, but time will have to determine de-termine this. "Theory is all right In its place but it takes something substantial and practical to run a railroad over even If It is a narrow guage." |