Show DYNAMITE ITS GENERAL USE AND appearance dynamite has become a household word in all civilized nations owing to its frightfully destructive qualities and lati latinate mate relations with all anarchistic plots yet comparatively few peo pie ile know what it is made of or how bow it looks looks nitro glycerian a fluid substance discovered by a french student to in 1847 und and the most powerful sive known too explosive to be safely huddled bandied in a pure state is for convenience and safety mixed with three times its quantity of coarse gritty earth ar or with ath sawdust and aad denominated dynamite it is used largely in mining operations where it has supplanted ina in a large degree the coarse grained black powder which a lew few years ago did sole soe duty in such work the expansive force of dynamite acts in a downward direction while black powder shoots upward hence a favorite te method in blasting Is to use both explosives together putting the dynamite in first and pouring the black powder poder upon and around it for convenience veni ence in mining operations dynamite which looks like greasy graham flour or greasy sawdust is put u up P in in I 1 round sticks about the size and shape of a tallow candle the wrapping being taugh paper such as is used in mak ng the small paper sacks for grocers use eight sticks of the dynamite weigh a 6 pound all the way irom from HO 80 to 50 cents per pound aji the various sections of this country D dy y is exploded not by fire but by concussion black powder covering it ft or a giant cap such as ended the days of lingg the anarchist being used fou for the purpose they being fired b bi a fuse when frozen it cannot be exploded by any means but when warmed it is discharged quite readily A visitor to a mining camp in winter wu will usually find one or more sticks of dynamite or giant powder as it is nore more familiarly known lying beside the fire warming tor for use and it is not an frequent sight to witness it catch fire and burn to asnes neither is it an uncommon occurrence for fora a miner to pick up a warmed stick of ayn dynamite amite hurriedly and explode it by the touch of his fingers to his own destruction st it explodes in the water readily and in remote regions where no law reaches it is effectually used in fishing A deep hole bole in a mountain stream Is selected a giant cap is attached to a luse fuse a few inches long ong and then im bedded securely in tired atte dynamite which the fuse being in lit A is aden aben bastinto cast east into the pool the concussion kills all fish fiah large and small for several feet around and the fisherman standing la in the rapids below throws the fish upon the bauk bank as they float to fo him in the current dynamite has a sweetish saline taste and many a miner has mourned the loss ot of his me powder eaten by a thievish cow but he is careful not to club the cow who has dynamite in her bowels angry as he may be at his loss |