Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1907 — A Pretty Big Net to Be Used In The River Blasting. [ARTICLE]

A Pretty Big Net to Be Used In The River Blasting.

J. M. Moore, the drilling and blasting contractor for the rock work in the Iroquois River ditch, was in Chicago a few days ago and ordered the making of a large rope net to use over the blast charges for the work thru town. It will be 16 by 36 feet in size, the woof is to be of tough manila rope, an inch in diameter, and as close together as they can be placed, while the warp is of three quarter inch size, and also beaten in a? closely as the loom will beat it. The entire net will weigh 3,200 pounds, and will consist of 12 sections each 4 by 16 feet in size, aud laced together with rope lacing. One of these sections would be about the right thing for Nim Hopkins and his crowd to make a landing net of the next time they go after that big pickerel they caught but could not land, a few days ago. Mr. Moore expects the net to arrive some time next week, and if the river has gone down enough by that time, to resume drilling and blasting and to keep at it until the whole job is finished. The blasting is now done down as far as A. Woodworth’s residence, while the drilling is done to the cemetery. There is more or less drilling still tp be done clear down to the Stott Grant place. .