Show LAKESIDE BLAST OF OP HUGE CHARGE STIRS STIES MOUNTAIN OGDEN Feb 16 After Atter After two at attempts attempts attempts at- at tempts to explode the mammoth charge of dynamite at Lake Lakeside failed ailed on Friday da the big blast was shot off today A A. dynamo car furnished enough voltage to explode the huge charge which had been placed under the tho mountain and the tho experts who vrho witnessed the blast said it was perfectly executed The been ep explosion planned d merely l just a a t r rumble as had f fr I no material e flying into n the tho air but I r the e mg gigantic c fW listing fn power oo loosening loosen qS ing tens of thousands of cubic feet pf of ballasting material Instead tead of pounds of or giant powder as announced In Jn dispatches tile the charge consisted ed x Ot f precisely pounds of ot Hercules special No 1 GO per cent according to C. C E. E Fish of the engineering department of or the I Southern Pacific who had charge of the firing tiring upon his return here following following fol fob lowing the blast Lakeside Is 47 miles west of Ogden at the western end of r Lucia cutoff The Southern Pacific obtains roadbed roadbed roadbed road road- bed ballast from the quarry where the explosion was wa-s staged |