Show INVENTS AN EXPLOSIVE Which Cannot BeSet Be Set SetOff Off Except by Electric Heat Vai Oct no new explosive sive the Invention of oC a which possesses possibilities it Is said of revolutionizing blasting work In connection wIth construction or of the Panama canal has been tested on the tho Isthmus of Panama and as a rt result the Panama canal commissIon eri ed l twenty wont tons Ions of It for the trial A report on the tho new invention Is claimed to lo he be absolutely safe sarC hag just been made by br Vice Consul lea Gen General eral Claude E Gua anto of Panama The Inventors exhaustive tests bo be before I fore foro the tho members of the Isthmian ca canal nal commIssion and officials or of the Re of oC Panama according to the tho consular that It Is ab abI absolutely to It by byI I I ordinary means I It wan wll h a sledge sh h 1 a hoary Inary detonators were verc ox i In It both hy by fuse and b by but bul the compound was as inert Not until a special detonator was In inserted could the lie substance be exploded I ed but bitt then In a few charges that were set off It showed itself moro more I powerful than lL it can only Ito ho set on off b by heating a small platinum wire just Inside th time open end b by an electrIc spar spark or fuse Tho rho new explosive Is composed or of of ammonia nitrate of soda Hoda and anI several other ingredients such is as fot fol water aler proofing etc It Is claImed that It Is i per por cent stronger than the sixty poi por porI I cent cont grade of dynamite and that the cost of manufacturing will bo mora nuoro titan than 20 a ton cheaper So is the Inventor that I he will secure the contract to 10 furnish all the explosives to he be used on the tho canal next year Mr Ir states slates that thal ho hM has a company whIch will at on once Co erect a factory on the Isthmus with wilh a capacity of be 10 between tween anti and touts lons per an amu anI I DUnt I |