Show rent 1 feat rest A remarkable engineering feat waa was recently nily performed in california in la providing a bulwark for a grest dam icing built to impound water for ban uy by a blast a n feccio i 0 of a mountain was wits torn off anil and hurled into a gorge below two months acro tto required la in preparation for the blast in ili tunnels cut into the mountain of rock greit stores of black ponder powder were placed cil alle while ot of klant giant powder were located under the mass to bo be moved ahe black powder ignites slower than tho the granite pow der and tho the effect when electricity was applied to both at once was first to lift up tho the mass end find then push it over lie the edge edgo into the gorge A mass of rock measuring feet and weighing an estimated 1 ton tons ai thrown exactly as the engineer engine erx had planned |