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Show B - A NEW EXPLOSIVE. H i tr Tall a factory was to have been established in Ogden for KB ; the manufacture of a new explosive invented by Eastern men. . At 9 the time, a report of the tests made by the promoters appeared in M New York papers. If we are not mistaken, the same explosive is m now being exhibited in Chicago. Describing a test at a stone JB quarry near that city, the Associated Press says- S "Amerite" is the name of a new explosive said to be twice H ' as powerful as dynamite and yet as harmless to handle as granulated H ans at the Joliet Artificial Stone company quarries, and, according H to the committee, "performed miracles." H John E. Ericsson, city engineer, and Henry Ericsson, building H , commissioner, were on the committee that subjected the new ex- H plosive to tests that seemed on the point of foolhardiness. The in- H ventor, F. M. Marshall, carried nine pounds of the article under H hie arm as he climbed over the rough rocks, up and down ladders, in and out of the quarry until he came to the testing place. H He had begun to inspire faith in his audience, but they stepped H . hack when he opened the package and tossed a long yellow stick h ' , on a rock. He then produced a revolver and riddled the stick with j bullet holes. Gathering some of the remnants together, he hurled j 1 them with all his might against a stone wall. Then he took other n I j portions of the explosive and spread them over a flat rock. He H I then picked up another rock and ground the pieces between them. B I By this time every one in the committee expressed a doubt that J 1 the material would explode under any circumstances. Marshall x 1 laughed and again gathered the crumbs together and with several RmmR new sticks dropped them into four 'holes that had been drilled into the top of the limestone ledge. It was a part of the quarry whore the stone was the hardest. He then adjusted fulminating caps and wire and the whole party retired to shelter. When all were free I from danger, the inventor touched a button and a cloud of dust and stones arose from the points where the "amcrite" was buried g ii instant later there was a dull roar as 100 tons of rock crumbled 1 off the edge of the cliff and rattled down into the pit of the quarry. "That job would have required at least nine pounds of 40 per cent dvnamite," said Alfred Wenberg, president of the quarry com- pany. " Only four and a half pounds of the new explosive was used. 1 "Later Mr. Marshall took the remaining sticks and built a fire in 1 front of the quarrv office. He held the stick in his hand while he g ignited tlic end of 'it in the fire. It burned Avith a bright flare, but without concussion. In another test he wrapped a stick of it in a pound of black gun- powder. The package was wrapped in a newspaper and set off by a fuse. The powder burned, but the stick of "amerite" appeared but slightly scorched. "There is no glycerine in this explosive," said Mr. Marshall. "It is composed of nitrate of soda, ammonia, metallic zinc, sawdust 1 and denitroluol. It is not at all like dynamite. It is less expensive 1 to manufacture, safer to handle and more powerful." g |