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THE EARTHQUAKE RIFT OF 1906
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partly, the place of the roses. The eucalyptus trees in front of the dairy moved on to a position opposite the barn, and one detached from the others and to the westward of the crack was left near the head of the line instead of at its foot. The crack passes obliquely under the barn, entering it at the northwest corner and leaving it at the middle of its posterior or southwest side. The barn remained intact, thanks to its weak foundation, Tor the east side pulled loose from the ground, and the barn went northward with the west side. Sixteen and one half feet of its former foundation at the southeastern corner is exposed. A driveway under the barn is divided in the middle. Yon pass in on the east side, the western half is sixteen and one half feet to the north

train overturned by earthquake, point reyes station, marin co., cal.

of the entrance and completely blocked in the middle. Under each of the east windows of the barn stood a pile of manure. Each pile is intact, sixteen and one half feet south of the window to which it belongs. The people at the ranch were milking at the time of the shock. Each man and cow was thrown to the ground and it took two hours to get the frightened cattle back into the 'corral' The stone steps to the dairy, on the east side of the crack, now stand sixteen feet seven inches to the southward of the door to which they led. About Skinner's, line fences and water pipes crossing the fault were broken, a break of sixteen and one half feet being Left in each case, the west side of the fault in all cases more or less overriding the other. "In the matter of line fences interesting legal problems are raised. Were the