The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-22
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS

Eden, May 10.
Can you give me some instructions
on the following auestionsl o. If u
man locates & claim and builds n CABIN
on il (2) and works il for a while CD
and il is not patented q and leaves IL
for two or more years (o) can man
locate it ard have all surface improve
nentsg Please give full information,
ii. G..
Your improvements abandoned with
the claim undoubtedly are lost,
Tremonton. Utah, May IS.
In the state Of Utah if man dues
without n will leaving wife and no
children, does the wife hold all the
property7 OLD SUB.
Yes, provided deceased left no IA
thcr, mother, brother or sister or
nephcws or nieces.
Salt Lake City, May 10.
At the base of some high cliffs there
is plumber of marble groupings mixed
with the lime. The marble varies IN
size from one to two feet. In the lime
iron is found and little is seen in some
Of the marble. Now ls 1t likely that tue
iron will run the marble out? The mar
BILE is n pure article. having been tnoT
ourhly tested; il takes a very mgh
polish Your opinion Will be looked
for IN Sundays Tribune and appre-
cieted by W. T.
1t would be quite impossible for any
one to give an opinion on question
like that. without direct examination
of the ground,
Virgin, Utah. May ii :.
AS constant reader and admlrer OF
your paper ] wish YOU TO settle through
Your Questions and Answers column IN
your next Sundays issue the follow.
ing. viz: In testing a dry battery used
in connection with a gasoline engine
the iestor took his knife blade and al,
ter wetting the ends of the wires ana
also the knife blade, he put one end
OF the wire on one side of the olsde
and the other end of the wire from the
battery on the other side or the blade
and then caught hold of the point of
tho blade and because there was no
shock he saws the battery is n z.
contend that you must have POSITIVE
and negative pole to receive shock.
He contends and so do his friends that
any one touching an overhead trolley
wire without any other connection VIII
be burned and killed If the voltage IS
high enough. Please answer this IN
your paper. Also j have another one.
] contend that n bullet fired from a
gun exactly the same weight as one
dropped from a level with the gun
ono matter if the bullet travels 5000
yards) it Will strike the ground the
same time as the one that is dropped,
because the bullet from the gun IS
falling as fast as the one dropped. We.
locity cuts no ice with gravity. II
this is too long for you 10 publish
in your Sundays paper, please send
me the answer by mail. l will remit
To Won the amount. q. A. y.
In your first question the party us
ing the knife to connect the two poles
in the dry battery, evidently short
circuited the current. You can hang on
high voltage wire but if YOU touch
another wire you will be shocked, II
your feet touch the ground, thus com
pletiDg the circuit. you will also receive
shock Under no circumstances should |
you try the experiment unless you are
accustomed to electricity.
In your second question, it is rather
ambiguous. Possibly there is trick
in the question. However if YOU fire
point blank and the bullet goes q long
CT distance. say 5000 yards from the
gun as against say fve-foot drop, the
latter would necessarily reach the
ground first.