After weeks of rain, a mudslide covers much of Stillwater, destroying barns, shops, homes, and three rafts of lumber but injuring no one. Two cows in a barn keep their feet during the slide, and afterwards they walk out of a second-story window. In all, the slide covers five acres of ground to a depth of one to twenty feet. Prior to the slide, this land had been low and boggy, selling for about $1.25 an acre. After the slide the land is more useable, and its value rises to $500 an acre. Most of the business area of present-day Stillwater is built on this location.