Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — A Moving Mountain. [ARTICLE]

A Moving Mountain.

There Is a mountain of dark-brown basalt on the Columbia River nearly two thousand feet in height and stretching along the stream for six or eight miles. When the white settlers first came into the country, the Indians told him this mountain was traveling; that some day It would move across the Columbus and form a lake which would reach from the cascades to the Dalles. What the Indians said has been found true in some respects. The mountain is in motion. Its movement is forward and downward. The railroad builders who constructed their line along the base found the tracks continually forced out of place. In some places the movement has amounted to eight and ten feet in a few years. Geologists attribute the phenomenon to the fact that the mountain rests on a substratum of conglomerate, or a soft sandstone, which Is steadily being washed away by the current of the big river.—New York Tribune.