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Show Pag Eight THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH , AAge' Caveinraefu (Map) E,IL3Eldll'JA Fp Colorado School of Mines, who is now at the Buckhorn wash site, you cant pick and choose the kind of ground beneath a strategic s.te. Some vital military installations may have to be located in soil Others must be carried underground in areas of the United States where there are limestone sand sandstones Still others can be placed in the dense, hard granites which aie the very bones of the planet We must know how, and how deep, to go underground in all these types 01 earth formations, and each test is vastly different from the others in the problems it poses Exclusive permission was given The Denver Post to inspect and photograph the Buckhorn wash test grounds this week, while the test blasts are still not too large to be photographed and watched Strict military secrecy veils L.e exact dimensions of the test hoi"-;- , depths of charges, size of craters blown out " - t 1 4) -- V v , Tests EnrapsEe Two descriptive stones of the recent experimental blast set off at Buckhorn wash, were written by Gene Lindberg, staff writer for the Denver Post This test was made on Wednesday, Apnl 21, and leports printed on the following days, Thursday, April 22 and on Friday, April 23. By folpermission we reprint the lowing description as given by Gene Lindberg Renl Price, Utah, April 22 working answers to the army3 how deep we great problem must d'g to protect vital military installations from atomic bombings were under study by explosion experts Thursday m the desert testing ground following a powerful blast of 320 pounds of TNT near here at jioon Wednesday. Hardly had the smoke from the explosion cleared than expeits of the Colorado school of mines were hurrying toward the scene to test and measure the crushing and cracking of vertical tunnels of varying sires drilled In the hard sandstone in which the blast was set off. Thats what must be knowr, and it is a new problem even to Tuesday, May 11, 1948 The Carbon county commissioners lh regular session Tuesday of this week approved a lease There are strong indica tiers transfer at the Carbon county the hens have learned how that airport from Howard Campbell masons are paid to lay much to Lawrence Richard Peterson and Leo Ivan Broadhead. The bricks right long, COMBINATION for Ml It AGE mi's hard-roc- k crew ' V . ? working in Buckhorn wash under W. Prof. C. Livingston, head of the Colorado schools mining engineering department. Already on the ground heie are construction crews of i big contractors wo will drive huge tunnels into th s Navajo sandstone for testing bv an explosion this summer of 320,-00- 0 pounds of TNT a thousano times the mass of the Wednesday ft -0 t i blast j Before those great holes, eaci fi one larger in diameter than tre A funny story gets more apa Moffat tunnel bore, can be drivplause than sensible thought. 1 en, guesswork must be eliminate i to the highest degree humanly 1 possible The bigger the blast, the V 4 J exthe shock of the deeper t i plosion will penetrate to crusi and shatter the walls and roof of the tunnel 1 i How far, how destructive, how 1 1 great a length of tunpel must be . u driven for purposes of complete U tests At a cost of thousands of ' . t dollars now, the answers are beV Even the 320,000-poun- d a. ing guthered DenTtr Fiat Wlraphoto by FloyS . McOl blast will be small-sca- k , .uiie in when compared to the crushing Standing astride the narrow chasm V. V.'a'-I v ngston of the Colo-lad- o C Buckhorn is in tets eaily so a force of atomic explosion, School of Mines Cioucmug (leit to n it .. e U M C am and all the answers must be righ Robert Col'ey, also of the school, who vi lVd th" tc tin ground e ist of Pi u e, Utah, Wednesday the experienced ' mi -- r j j .,' Every new U. S. Royal DeLuxe is engineered for quick, sure stops ; long, safe mileage; smooth, quiet riding. Its the right tire for yon. u -- mmsxm u u I vJl I nv, S J- - o' .7 4 , i 9 three-a- c. most gnmly c of dramas m human hi tory Thee are cave men of the at ume age learning n v bow to burrow 4,000 Feet In Air deep into the euith for s defy in The explosion Wednesday v s time of vva- the largest yet set off It is The fust ,.ct of this drama vv ill only one that will be photogviph-e- d be staged at Dag a ay prov.ng publuly until the major blast grounds ne ir Salt Lake Citv later this year. It threw shattei-e- d There a great bias of 320 000 rock some 4,000 feet into tlie pounds of TNT will be set off by air, showering the low hillt-idcthe army engrue s to test deep HERE IT IS The new Easy Spindner whirls with huge chunks of lock, some excavations in soil as well as Simout up to 25 m$rt water Clothes dry of them big as footballs faster indoors ea rainy days No wringing, la e structure The second act either Clothes arc The whole desert test area fifty will be staged inBuckhorn wasn, in the basket It $ home tested, proved, miles southeast of Price is faidv twenty miles east of Castle Dale, backed by 68 years experience in bone boiling with activity as drills Utah, in hard v hite sandstone laundry equipment Set it today! and the chatter in gulgiind dry a sedimentary of water-formlies and machines designated rock especially for the purpose grind The third act, staged m ii deep circular holes into the rock, ite, wall be enacted late this year 4R4 yards deep COLUMBIA, UTAH in Colorado, near Grand Junc- Phone Some of these tunnels are as tion big as sewer manholes. Their exWhy are these huge, IGO-- to i act sizes, depth and the weight blasts of high explosive, each one of charges that will be used to at one-fifthe destructive test them are military secrete, rated of the Hiroshima atom1 power and visitors are not welcome bomb, to be set off at such widely points Price, Utah, April 23 Science-traine- d separated Heres why stage hands in the barnm Because, says Trot C W wastes of Utah and Colorado are Livingston, head of the minmg setting the scenes for one of thu engineeung department of th1 J. S. Royal Butyl Tubes hold air many times longer fight punc- tures make driving bafer : Fewer roadside tire changes ni , HJiL - tv REDD MOTDe COf.lPAfiY Price, Utah Spin-dri- er damp-drie- d 'x- STOP AT THE SIGN OF ed PAPER DOLLS UP WALLS! Bright walls enhance your entire room and furniture. Its easy as picking daisies to put up our papers. 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