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Members of the Manor Fark €feic club were treated to a highly inSer-esting evening at their meeting held Monday. October 4 .when Mr. Jenkins, consulting engineer for the Consumers company, gave a cue hour illustrated talk on the manner in which the blasting is beinglbAii-dled in the Consumers’ Hillside quarry.Mr. Jenkins who is a seismograph expert and who represents over forty quarries throughout the ccttntfcy, opened his talk by stating that the quarry will be in operaion for miny years since .there is foreseeable rstde for approximately 4€0 more ycsiy. Constant improvements in methods of blasting and continual experiments have resulted in a lessening of the vibrations even thcugiuibfy are now shooting over four iiiiMss as much dynamite in, the quarry ever before. jEfr. Jenkins staled.It was explained that the Jnore dynamite used in a blast the lest Vibration caused since the ‘energy is all used up in a large blast where*® much of the energy in a stnaUer blast escapes into the earth . kind consequently reaches the lionae# in the form of vibrations.In closing, Mr. Jenkins said that the Consumers company was rboifeicooperative' and thatrif any^;*m*«eis caused to anyone’s property Msr. m result of a blast, it should fc* reported to the company who WP'^dcheck and measure the home.4 ' •* -Following Mr. Jenkins* talk, ident Frank Quinn announced the fc there will be a Christmas patty forthe children and that committee# will be appointed at the next meeting. Refreshments were served after the meeting.
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Bellwood Star Progress
Bellwood, Illinois, US
Thu, Oct 07, 1948
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