| Show that during cold coid the lC I frozen ground acts as a aC con colt C conductor p- p ductor of such sounds and that these ru rumbles III as its a general rule are ale most plainly heard from the beginning of winter to the opening opening- of f The Thc copper mines at n Bingham Ding Bing- ng-I ng ham are V only about miles I Isaid from Theodore e on ors an 1111 air line said 31 Mr r. r Smith and land or ore are j just st big open quarries where hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of tons of rock are blasted blasted blast ed down daily large quantities of dynamite beitl being used for th the purpose This blasting at Bingham Bingham Bing Bing- ham hanl is carried on oil at all hours of the thc day clay th the volume of it being being being be be- ing one dond at th the tha ends of the thc three thre shifts Now I have found by experience ex cx- I p that as one leaves Theodore and approaches the Bingham haIll country the thc rumbles become more noticeable until whet when one approaches Lehi where he can see see the see the smoke of th the Bingham camp the thc shock shock- I is sufficient to jar a wagon if OH Mr Watrous before returning rex re- re I x turning hOllie home will il i goto to Bingha Bingham Bing Bing- ham haiti ha and take talc observations of I Ith th the times s of heaviest est blasting cor- cor correspond 1 we we will Ji find fill q that his notes correspond corre cor cor- re respond With the times titres of the I rumbles at an any given point on onI the Reservation 1 allowing the I time necessary for the sound sund y to travel tra th the intervening distance dis dis- tance I Mr Smith is well ell posted on I geology aI and rl kindred subjects 1 and feels that he has th the laugh laughon II on oil Section Director Thiessen 1 of Salt Lake M. M M. M Smith of Theodore Theodore The The- The The-I odore and others who vho h have YC entertained entertained en en- the theory of a slipping slipping slipping slip slip- ping in the underground for for for- for j mation If this slipping cont con- con t turned at itt such frequent ent intervals intervals inter infer I vals asi as the rumbles les we have I heard said he we vc would I have hae seen some evidence e of it iton iton iton on the surface before this One point that he lie mentioned is that most active o operations er were begun in the B Bingham mines about the time when the j rumbles 1 first began to be heard m In this country |
