Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-10-30 | Page 10 | Blast at Copper Flat Cost $10,000

BLAST IT COPPER FLU COST $10,060 Twelve Holes Ranging From Sixty-five to 125 Feet in Depth Are Fired. Several hundred persons in tc disiri-'t and a larcc number of Nevada. Consolidated Consoli-dated officials witnessed th: tiring of an extra larse blast at the southwest side of the labertv pit on Monday, says the Ely Daily Expositor. The cost of the blast was about $10,000. Twelve holes ranging from , sixty-five to 1C5 fr-et deep had been drilled bflck from thr fue of the bank on the YVcviphaha and .Liberty claims at an averse distance dis-tance of about 100 feet. These hoies were loaded with 5, 050 pounds nf pov; dcr, mostly dynamite, and fired together. The spectatorn who had antieipnted be-!ng be-!ng stunned bv the loud noUe nf the blast were disappointed, as a very much smaller amount of powder n"iircr the surface sur-face would have mad1 :i f-TCut deal more noise. But a faint report of the bUst wna henrd in Kiy. The yardce loosened by the blast had not been iigured but the amount was estimated es-timated by the company pji'ncr-is ;it 20H.-OO'i 20H.-OO'i cubic vftrda. The v. hole m:i was apparently ap-parently gently raised when the powd-T exploded, to a height of about eighteen feet and then it dropner! down to the next level of the liberty pit about lwfdc jVt below. This made a total drop nf about thirtv f-et whicli catised the ro.-k and earth to be well broken up and in fine eondlt'.on to be handled with tuarn shovels.