Re: Left Over From Blasting During Construction?

J.B.Bane Wrote:
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> Up here in Wallowa County, I have found similar
> black powder cans "Hercules Powder" at cuts on the
> old East Oregon Lumber Co. std. gauge logging
> line. Both in the Sumpter country and up here
> on the logging line I mention, a lot of the cuts
> were not through solid rock but rather decomposed
> granite and large granite boulders. Where they
> ran into solid basalt, their method might have
> been different.

Hercules Powder was a spin-off from DuPont after anti-trust action that finalized in 1912. The plant at Hercules, CA started out as California Powder Works which sold its dynamite under the name of Hercules Powder. The brand name was adopted by the spin-off as its corporate name.

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