SLIDING MOUNTAIN.
Shifting 3600 Feet Peak Causes Concern. VILLAGES EVACUATED. ("Times" Cables.) (Received I.MO p.m.) LONDON, July 24. The "Times" Geneva correspondent states that the authorities have ordered the immediate evacuation of several villages in the Taglio Valley, where Mount Motto Albino (Switzerland), five miles from Bellinzona, and 3600 feet high, is slowly sliding. The mountain's unstable composition was known in 1888, but its movement was only recorded in 1925, when it was noted that the signals, at the top had moved twenty inches since 1919. The mountain covers one and a-quar-ter miles and measures 56,000,000 cubic feet. The summit has moved 69 inches and subsided 82 inches in 36 years. It is now sliding much faster, in some places equal to six yards per year, with a tendency to increase.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 174, 25 July 1928, Page 7
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131SLIDING MOUNTAIN. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 174, 25 July 1928, Page 7
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