HAPPENINGS INn IN AND AROUND UND THEODORE n B ByM M. M M. M SMITH h heard ard t Si sn o pl plainly in the west crest portion of f the I Reservation cs r His Hise is is' e an old theor theory Prior to a I year ago there were many man adherents adherents adherents ad ad- to the mine blasting theory in this community but hut there then are arc none now that I 1 know of They have c all abandoned that idea as having no merit land and if there is any one thing hing that the people agree upon I unanimously y in th the matter it itis itis t is that the tIie rumbles are arc not I caused from ruining mining nin underground underground under under- ground or oron on onn the thc surface It cannot be the surface blasting at Bingham wl ch lies over I miles west of Theodore with two high mountain ranges rang rang- es intervening uThe Bingham mines mines lie 18 miles east of Salt Lake yet that surface hla blasting tin tinis is never heard in Zion ion But Hut 1 Mr r. r Geo T. T would have us believe believe believe be be- lieve those sounds bounds scamper over two mountain chains and Ind Indland land in this vicinity with ith sufficient dent force to jar the ground and r rattle the dishes If Bingham Bingham Bing Bing- ham hanl is always alwn's at the breech and the muzzle is pointed in lour our direction all well for otherwise otherwise oth- oth with S Salt Lake less than one-fifth one the distance from ii Bin Bingham the concussion would be so great that her tall buildings would totter to their their I j foundations and the their r foundations and there would not be bean bean bean an unbroken pane of glass in inthe inthe inthe the city Then where would j the town of Bingham itself get getoff getoff getoff off Vh Why it would surely be totally demolished But it is is not Geo T. T sg suggests est that it w be bl found that these i e correspond in time with the mine shots most of which are at hour eight int intervals S That claim is punctured by the pf facts These sounds are arc ve very Y independent and have no regard regard re re- gard Bard f for r the hour eight law During March l 1 they are just as ab v. v audible and fre frequent Iu nt one hour I. I 11 na ther s J In n the th c R r another Q Secor 1 lne G of March larch 1 claim C e that any jf Ft aP r e 1 T. Sarit i of sit ai mc c blast is heard over ve t r tures turea his Ius' tI orr as to t trl 0 miles 8 is preposterous It is 1 case of the the f pe rum 11 f 1 I if f the Mie reports of t the theis le inch 13 guns gluts guns on our great battleship battleships bat bat- are are ever heard over o 30 miles I have ha not the statistics at hand The big shots put off Fourth of July mornings ar arr are r rarely audible ten miles a aw a The most peals of thunder thunder thun thun- der del discharged high up up- th in the he heavens l ens where no obstacles intercept seldom travel trave more than twenty miles 1 I have never never never nev nev- er heard anyone else contend that the sounds grow row stronger we westward till till Bingham is reach ed cd I am told by man that in itt t. t Strawberry ralley Talley one seems to have ha gotten beyond th them m and they are then heard in a northeasterly north- north ea easterly terl f direction and at Heber Heber Heber He He- ber nobody nobody's s' s rumbles have ha ever b been en heard I have ha just received a n letter from John J. J Watson the thc C U. S. S weather man at Ibex Utah Uta some some miles west of Theo Theo- dore He lIe states that the runs rum rumbles bles tiles prevalent pre in his lalit locality are of the same nature as th those sc described here He Ie says they Y almost drive him frantic Heis He Heis Heis is alone on the desert and aud says say they appear alwa always in northwesterly direction I cant can't be he the same sounds heard at Theodore