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Vejol. irnttie, PTj Wiellita Falls, Texas Pare 1
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ADVEITURES DDIAFITTER
wouldn't be afraid in the least to tal,7e a pint of nitroglycerine
place it in a glass bottle, and thew it down oft the side walk from the
top of the notional bank blildingrraA I'm not planning on dying soon
either."
The above atartlinic statement WM made by a veteran dynamiter of
Tleilta Fells. Tom !.7endenhall (affedtionately Galled "Old Tommy by
oil field vorlers.
7r7vtlee thatold Tommy specifies a Limos bottle. "It I took a pint
of nitro and :11t it in tie containers followinr the same procedure I'd
soon be knooking at the pearly gates."
AO. Mon4enbell has been in the butinees fortyrflve years, having formed
his firtt dynasdte °company in 1895. Tie 108 drivinr those dam a pair of
pure bred horses from 7entucky, of which he is more proud, he declares,
than he is in 1938, of his modern steam line equipment.
fhe day driving to a well, the tin containers in whieh he was
earring nitroillyperine sprung a leak. Arriving et his destination, he
discovered that he had lest 20 quarts of the fluidrenough to blow up the
down coati,* of michita Fills. It is friction that causes nitro to explode.
Thet is eby it is dangerous to o it in tin containers, says 40. Mendenm
hall. The old belief that a Jar or bump makes nitro explode is all foolishness.
If that were so, we couldn't haul it from place to plaoi.
owe remember se voiles if it were yesterday, one time in enrol,
remt virginia, I had about 15 querte of nitro in the sod of the lagoon in
tin containers, but fixed very socurely In wooden boxes. The horses ran
over e steep cliff about 400 feet deep. Pa soon as he went over the edre
of the road, I jumped from the waren.