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Show that the noise there Is much toiler and Is accompanied by distinct tremors trem-ors of tho earth. It Is no uncommon thing for a new homesteader, awakened awak-ened in the dead of night by an a!cr:n-InfT a!cr:n-InfT uproar and shaking of dishes ; nd oiher articles In the cabin nt Ih n.ill, to take his blankets and ret rev out of doors to spend the rest of tho night under the stars, which he does not fear may tumble down upon him at any moment. Aside frtmi surh loss of sleep, no damage has over kcn known to result from the "earfh-rjuakes" "earfh-rjuakes" It is likely that If scientilc observations could lo taken by ibe fcvcrnnifnt or University of Utih, menv additions could be made to mankind's rather limited knowledge ot the moements of the crust of the earth. EARTH'S RUMBLINGS IN UINTAH BASIN Theodore, Utah, Dec. 30. Many residents of Utah and the east who have been In the Uintah basin since election day examining lands they purchased at the Provo government land sale, have noticed with wonder the occasional rumblings, rosemb'lnpr explosions or distant thunder, that can be heard throughout this section sec-tion at intervals ever.- calm day 'ind night. There has ben much speculation specula-tion as to the nature or cause of this phenomenon and various theories theor-ies have been advanced, some more Or less fancifnl or imaginary. Homesteaders Home-steaders hae hard these muffled detonations every quiet day since the former Uintah Indian reservation was opened to settlement over five years ago, and have become so familiar with them that they have long since ceased to pay nay attention to whut seems most unusual or alarming- to strangers. From the fact that the mysterious noise is heard Just as frequently fre-quently In winter as In summer, and that the volume of sound remains almost al-most constant from the beginning to the end of the five to fifteen seconds sec-onds It lasts, and that there are never nev-er ny single isolated reports, tho explanations ex-planations of distant thunder or blasts have been abandoned In all probability, the rumbling Is simply a slipping of one layer of rocks over another at some place uiong the Uintah fault, which extend for over a hundred miles north and south along the base of the Wasatch mountains near the western boundary of the Uintah basin. In accord with h th;:. theory is the fact that, while as , a general rule the rumblings heard : .it Theodore or on the Blue bench, come apparentlv from the northwest in the direction of lilacktall mountain. moun-tain. Stockme.ro and Park City, the-y I frequently are raor(. westerly toward I i Heber or Provo, and occasionally I seem to proceed from the southwest i't the direction of Soldier Summit. '. Settlers who have gone to th" sawmills saw-mills in the mountains, twenty or ! r thirty miles distant from here, state |