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The Frank Slide. '* • r •-. .. . . .*. • , *. .. _._g l ‘ ‘.Ji * * -Further Investigation by Frank rest-5dents reveal the following interesting.-in^fonnation: The gap in themountain? wiiere the slide took place; was 4,043 feet'wide, and cut 1000 •feet^-hack^from^the*face of the mountain. The peak was 4200v feet high, perpendicular from the-river? bed. Part of the top of the peak waa car-? ned over two miles awav from the base of *the mountain, and is there just asrH?slia|down, with moss and small troes covenhg j it.. It measures 300 feet in - circumference * und is 50 feet high. The debrisi fills'ttieJ valley 1% iniles long and 2 v miles^wifleSj On its way it cut off a mountain ?of solidl rock 300 feet high, and rose'400 ftehiglr; on the opposite side of thd valley f andi such was its force and weight that^iP scooped the river down to bedrock forcing! the water before it up several; hundred^ feet on the opposite side of the valley;*? leaving the lakes thus formed, one a mileS «n* t-hn nth™ a mile and a hal# from t, Joriginal river. V r : ■ --v-:- £■*:
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Nelson Tribune
Nelson, British Columbia, CA
Fri, Jul 24, 1903
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