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Show feet and at tho end the charge was placed, and touched off by an electric battery son Vet away. H Is estimated the blast made 200.."mo carloads of clay for cement manufacturing purposes pur-poses accessible. BLOW UP A MOUNTAIN , WITH 30.0C0 POUNDS POWDER San nornardlno, Cal., Sept. 3 Thlr- J ty thousand pounds of dynamite blow up a solid mountain of slate clay near Fleming yesterday. When the durst and powder cleared away a crumbling and caving mass of broken clay, covering cov-ering an area of a quarter equine mile, was exposed to view. A tunnel had been run Into the mountain 100 j |