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Show Fall of Great Rock Due to Shake State The biggest crash In modern natural natur-al history is coming some day soon out In Dolores canyon. In western Colorado, when the I'otato Hock falls This freak of nature, the largest balancing bal-ancing rock In the world, according to scientific estimates, weighs approximately ap-proximately 12.000 tons and rears 8." I feet the height of nn eight-story j building. At n distance It looks like nothing so much as n gigantic potato standing on end. For thousands of years erosion has worn rlown Ihe earth around the huge formation of red sandstone until now H balances precariously on two points of crumbly shale, the largest ofwhict. is no bigger than vour dining table the other much smaller. IVtwepr rhem a ho!p has been worn of recent vcars until il Is nou large enoiiu'li for a man to crawl throii-jh And gradually, imperceptibly, thp dole Is growing lnr::er the snp'nr's smaller i;e!nv the rock Is u precipice ' 'eel deep Some day perhaps lomor ov-- pcrcaps ten years hence erosion s uoing to take away (he t':nal outlet hal moans the difference bctwcci upport and capil ulai ion to the hi-Id hi-Id icL:e of nalure And the crasi .ill resound over all western Co jrado. |