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Some Field Notes on Making 

 Ditches with Explosives 



There seems to be great difTerences 

 in the response of difl'erent soils to the 

 action of explosives. In going over the 

 figures and the record pictures of a 

 dozen or more ditches that had been 

 blasted out, in Maryland, Pennsylvania, 

 Michigan, Louisiana, Mississippi and 

 other states, it was plain that no one 

 rule could be laid down for all cases. 

 Economical ditch blasting can be done 

 only when the ground is wet. Yet if it 

 is too wet experience has shown that a 

 successful ditch cannot be made. For 

 instance, in niuclv swamps in Maryland 

 and Louisiana, where the material was 

 semi-fluid, the explosives threw out 

 enough material to leave a ditch, but 

 tlie banks iiumediately moved in and 

 closed up tlie cavity. Fortunately these 

 conditions do not prevail at all over a 

 large part of the country. Such ground 

 is almost unknown in the North. Sandy 

 soil offers another problem. When 

 there is just enough water to bind the 

 sand and what little loam and clay may 

 be mixed with it, and not enough to 

 make the sand soft, ditches can be 

 blasted out very effectively and satis- 

 factorily. You should see that the 

 charges are placed shallow enough so 

 that they do not tend to send their 

 gases to useless depths in the softer 

 subsoil. Do not try to blast ditches in 

 dry sand, or, for that matter, in dry 

 ground of any kind, though if you can- 

 not wait for the wet season and are 

 willing to meet an increased expense, 

 you can blast ditches through dry clay 

 or heavy loam. The most economical 

 and satisfactory soils in which to blast 

 ditches are the lighter cleays or heavy 

 loams, such as iirevail in parts of 

 Michigan, Western Maryland, Pennsyl- 

 vania and in many other states. Here, 

 whenever the gi'ound is watersoaked, 

 or even fairly moist, the results of 

 blasting are surprisingly good. One 

 reason probably is thai the substrata of 

 earth nearly always are solid and gas- 

 resisting. — ,1. H. Mattern. 



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