The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-06-16
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experiment probibitiye.
The writer Of this mas had more
Or le-ss 10 do with work OF railway
construction wherein large quantities
Of explosive were used daily. II the
work Was being dOne-f the heaVy
charges we're being fired during
what might be called the rainy sea-
Gin and in some gorge or canyon,
along the bluffs Of some large river
where the oppOzite bluffs would take
I'D the reYerberations and the waters
of the stream would transmit the
shock 70 the air for miles above
and below the place Of the original
firing and subsequent shock TOOK
rain would almost ineV-
itably follow. But, If the season was
an extra dry one, or the atmoBpher-
ic conditions were not Just Tighl' !
or If the country wherein the shoot
ing" took place was an extra arld
one, then there would be no rainfali
with the shooting-no re-
.,ults produced.
For Instance, In the dry year Of
1q0O the Campbell Construction com
pany did fifteen miles OF grading
along the Missouri river, In the cen
trail part OF the state of Missouri.
This work was what was known IN
construction terms as very heavy.
In shooting out the roadway and
tearing down the gigantic river
bluffs on this fifteen miles OF work
over seventy thousand dollars worth
Of dynamite and black powder were
used. All conditions, except those
a .mospheric, were favorable for
peavy coincident rainfalls. There
acre the giant bluffs on each side
of a mile wide stream of water
everything to hold and carry the
s. ock of the explosions, to disturb
TIE atmosphere, TO keep these dis
turbances, these shock waves shak-
hc and Quivering for hours and
hours after the shock OF the shoot
i.g and to spread them for miles
pud miles in every direction, but no
rain followed Why? Because there
was no moisture in the air stratas
shaken by the conclusions. On an
other occasion, in the mountain
country OF Arizona, an arid region,
In the double-track work OF the
Santa Fe. for a distance OF forty
miles. from Flagstaff to Williams
for three months there was not a
day passed that shots, each consist
ing OF from five hundred to two
thousand pounds OF powder were not
fired. In addition to this there was
the daily Sblock hole" shooting and
lobbying" wherein several cases OF
sixty per cent dynamite was used
in each cut along this distance. And
not a drop OF rain. No results were
produced because in each instance
the altitude Of the original concus-