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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 



TKAIN OVEKIVKXED BY EARTHQUAKE, POINT KEYES 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 be- 

 longs. 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 hack 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 Skin- 

 ner's, line fences and water pipes crossing the fault were hroken, 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 



