Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-26
TO BUILD MOUNTAINS,
Ingenious scheme of n Chicago En-.
gfneer.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Between Charles C. Christensen. a me-.
chanical engineer of Chicago, and Mahomet
the mountain problem has been settled. and
all the credit belongs to the mechanical en-
gnser. Mr.. Christensen is ready to supply
Chicago with any style of mountain desir-
ed, and, IL it is wished, will furnish enough
to make a whole range.
The Chicago mountain idea was evolved
by Mr.. Christensen last July, while he was
spending the summer in Colorado, and ne
brought 1t home with him and made blue
print of it Mr.. Christensen being the esti-
mator for some big manufacturers of min
ing machinery, a citizen of the United
States and a member of the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers is not to be
claSsed among the wild-eyed Missionaries
who have been amusing the public so many
years He has perfect confidence in his
mountain scheme, and is supplied with ar
guments and figures to prove that 1t is not
only practicable, but offers the opportunity
for the making of several fortunes.
He contemplates mountain provided
with all the modern conveniences, such as
hotels sanitariums. pavilions, flats, stores,
restaurants, natatoriums and stables from
which a constant revenue would be derived.
Mr.. Christensen's mountains, as they are
pictured in the blue print are built of steel
and are hollow. They are covered on the
inside with steel plates, shaped and painted
to initiate cave formations, and the lower
part of the walls is clad with thin layers
of real rock. There are clusters and lines
of incandescent lamps arranged on the cell
ing and walls to represent precious stones,
and electric fountain springs and water
falls to make the caves complete.
The outside of the mountains is covered
with steel plates, forming pockets of many
different shapes and sizes, cemented and
filled with soil, in which are growing pine
and fir trees, mountain shrubbery and wild
flowers. The eXteriors of these pockets, as
well as the mountain sides, are clad with
layers of hollow rocks of different shapes.
The general scheme of construction is
similar to that employed in sky-scraping
buildings. with the difference that Mr. Chris
Jensen has planned one mountain 1000 feet
high, and surmounted it with tower 800
feet higher. Above the caves are the mod
ern cliff dwellings, built like the Chicago
high buildings and divided into suitable
fats and furnished with all modern i'm
proyements. The upper stories form hotels
and sanitariuns, and each story will have,
besides elevator connection with level
ground, an exit to a burrow TRAIL which
winds up and Down the mountain.
There are twenty-four floors on the high
est mountain planned by Mr. Christensen.
fifteen floors on the next highest and ten
on the lowest. The low mountain contains
a number of small caves, to be used for
restaurants stores and stables. and the
large one level with the base for natator-
ium. A complete water-suppiy system pro-
yides for the sub-irrigation of the pockets
on the mountain sides, in which trees are
plantei and furnishes natural springs,
which unite in streams Moving down into
lake at the base.