Show IN HANDLING IDLING GIANT POWDER some points which will save accidents avite mining inspector Inspect oi of ida idaho I 1 OR alil is 1 IN inch ich e td id IN ill pi s en ent cut mana mini of the ca lamitie une due to Cai eknes robertn robert N bell state inspector ot of mines of idaho gives this good advice on handling powder the 1 he following clonts don ts may be pro heeded by poder users borne boms may appear superfluous to the lay or to the careful and 0 penen perien ced Led miner but from constant personal contact I 1 know them to be justified dont start to drill in a new face until you have hare thoroughly satisfied yourself that there are no holes or unexploded pieces of left in the old butts or cutoff holes boles if such tire are found and shoot them before starting in to drill as a slip may connect with hith the charge that will ill transmit a sympathetic concussion from the drill especially it if a machine is being employed that may explode a charge while drilling dont depend entirely upon reports it often happens that the upper part of a charge will explode and the lower part pact remain alive and without going on off dont be in too big a hurry to go back to a burnt nole or stinker or to a missed hole bole for it is safer to within an hour say than to work over a hole that has missed fire tor for a halt half shift as misled holes will remain apparently dead for several houis boat a without any sign ot of lite and then unexpectedly go off several oases cases of this kind have oc 00 cured in the state recently with disastrous results dont jae ass an ani kind ot of metal tamping bar or tap a wooden one with a hammer when loading dout dont store in the same room with oils or other inflammable materials don bonc thaw or keep powder in a 11 blacksmith shop or a dwelling dont jab too hard with a wooden tamping bar in ill case a piece ot of power fito fitchers hers or sticks half way in a hole when loading and you cannot push it home gently never mind your reputation hs as a loader let the hole spoil if it should result in loosing your job ob you will have yourself loft left anyway don carry a lighted candle to gether v with ith powder or a capped fuse use in the same hand band dont keep caps and fuse in the same box with powder dont carry r about your person to soften it if or attempt to thaw it in III the flame of a candle or crimp a a cap with your teeth or break a stick in two cut it no zatter how dull your knife is 13 and it if you d knife so RD and get one dont jab ab a pick into a muck pile in the mauner manner of 0 striking a drill with a double hand hammer you are likely to nit a piece of 0 powder that will explode and blow bour eyes out ahree such incidents ici dents haie bae happened in idaho during 1905 use y your our PIC pick k to work the stuff do down a with more mor of a raking motion it is safer and more effective dont take a naked light into any warm aara storage place for powder or or hang a baudle over an open box of powder or scatter it particles of powder po der in making a home tor for a 11 primer where they ure tire likely to strike a candle flame dont carry loose powder in your arm use a small canvas sack which x you can an swing over bour our shoulder with a rope loop old powder is dangerous to to handle in many ways and hard to el explode blode demand fresh powder and strong caps by practising practicing the above rules rule 13 and using ordinary care you will experience peri ence erice little trouble in handling power |