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Show uu SEEPAGE CAUSES LANDSLIDE. Salmon City, Ida., Aug. 6. An extraordinary ex-traordinary landslide occurred on the ranch or Mrs. Vema Kellogg, near Boyle Creek, last Friday. At 11 o'clock those on the ranch were awakened by tho roar of water, breaking of trees and grinding of rock and gravel. Two or three acres of hillside slid down and covered fifteen acres of valuable land seven feet deep with debris. It Is believed that the surface of the ground had become loosened by the working of underground springs, or by the waters of the Irrigation dlcch percolating per-colating through. The creek was dammed, and when the dam broke the land was flooded. Part of the orchard was carried away and the majority of the flooded area was very valuable land. |