A SLIDING CITY.

Inangahua Times, Issue 62, 29 July 1878, Page 2

A SLIDING CITY.

Virginia City, Novada, scorns to bo ? n nn uncomfortable condition. ' Our town (says tho Virginia City Entorpriso) is vory quiolly nnd vory slowly moving to tho eastward down tho faoe of tho mountain. This movomont is attributed io tho sottling of tho Ronnnjn minos. As all tho town is 'going togothor' thoro is littio ovidonoo on tho surface of what is going on bonoath. No oracks aro to bo floor J Tho gas and wator companies aro bottor acquainted with tho movements taking piaoo in tho ground forming tho sito of tho town than most of its habitants, as tho instability of tho oarth tolls upon thoir pipes, On B nnd C stroots, north of Union, tho ground is said to bo moving both north and oast. A wator main un* covered tho othor day in Bstroct was found to he tolosoopod to a distnnco of a foot, aud had moroovor, in it a groat ' kind,' whioh mado it ncoossary to tako out a piooo nearly two foot in longlh, At a pan mill in tho town tho pipes, it is stated, ' aro crowding in from both oast and wost,* owing to tho sottling of tho ground in tbo neighborhood. Although thoro aro no cracks as yoc in tho oentral part of tho town, thoro is a largo and vory ominom one to tho westward. The International Ilotol Ins movod oast nbout fiyo tnohes Bnioo it was built ; and all tho buildings in tho part of tho town whoro tho hotel is situut-H. hnvo movod tho Rome distnnco. Tho town is evidently travelling somewhere, but whoro it moans to go to nobody knows. In tho meantime, excopt in tho mattor of gas and wator pi pos, no inconvenience has boon foil.