People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — Driving Rain Away with Dynamite. [ARTICLE]

Driving Rain Away with Dynamite.

The new science and art of “rain* making” does not appear to make much progress in India, and unfortunately this is one of those countries where the power to procure rain at will would be particularly valuable. At Bijapur, in the Bombay presidency, nearly half a ton of dynamite was recently exploded on elevated ground; but unhappily all this disturbance left the district just aa dry as before. A second discharge was then tried upon a flat-topped hill two hundred feet in height, but still not a drop of rain. In Burmah the conditionr were considered more favorable, but it happened that just when the deputy commissioner and an assistant engineer had got all ready for a tremendous ex< plosion down came the rain. The experiment, it is added, was carried on, nevertheless, which, as a local wit observed, is very much as if tho American colonel of legendary fame had persisted in firing at the “gone coon” after he had come down. The worst part of the business is that in one instance at least an experimental dynamite explosion is strongly suspected of having actually driven away a very promising drift clouds.—London News.