Making Monolith Out of Mountains

With a thunderous concussion that was heard and felt for miles, a mountain crag of solid limestone, weighing morethan 500,000 tons was literally blown to bits at Monolith recently when a record charge of 2@,000 pounds of dynamite was exploded in a single blast at the quarries of the Monolith Portland Cement Company.

Directed to a commanding knoll across a deep gorge by Monolith officials, a battery of camera-men and news photographers had their machines trained on the scene when Wilmar Evans, vice-president of the Monolith companies, threw the switch that ignited the huge charge of giant powder buried several hundred feet under the base of the lim,estone mountain.

Several hundred spectators who had motored up to the Tehachapis to witness the spectacular explosion and parked the cars in clusters on the surrounding knolls stood as if stunned when the ground bega_n to quiver underfoot. With an ominous roar, a great crack opened across the face of the mouhtain, and then the entire cliff catapulted into the air and crashed to the floor of the quarries.

Giant jets of acrid smoke and geysers of gray dust shot skyward as tons of broken rock avalanched in a grinding,

Jim Farley Returns To The Bay District

Jim Farley, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, has returned to the company's San Francisco offioe after spendi.ng about six weeks in the Southern California territory. While in the Los Angeles District, he made his headquarters with A. L. (Gus) Hoover, the company's Southern California representative.

reverberating mass, to come to rest in an inert heap on a broad ledge at the base of the mountain.

After a safe pause; but while the smoke-clouds still hung over the jagged cavity left by the awe-inspiring 'shot', the quarry crews swarmed into action. Portable tracks were srMung into place and the steam-spitting scoop shovels, mounted on caterpillar tractors, dug into the edges of the splintered mass of rock as steel gondola cars were loaded and routed around the bend to the huge crushing plant.

Officials and engineers of the Monolith company pronounced the'shot' a huge success from a technical standpoint, as the limestone was broken down into the floor of the quarry, just where it can be handled with greatest speed.

They said this new supply, broken down in five minutes by modern methods, where it would have taken months and probably years to get at it with men and mules under the old system, will keep the Monolith mills grinding, cooking and curing high grade cement for several mohths to come.

Monolith officials who witnessed the blast and entertained friends at their 'Fourth-of-July blow-out' included Coy Burnett, president; Wilmar Evans, vice-president; C. A. Low, director of sales; T. R. Larson, traffic manager, and F. R. Brownell.

Congratulations Bill

Bill Hamilton, Los Angeles, Southern California representative for the Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co., is wearing a big smile and announcing to his friends that a new daughter has arrived at his house. He reports that Mrs. Hamilton and the new arrival are doing nicely.

Manufaeturerr of California White & Sugar Pine Milb at Suanville and Hilt, Calif.

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