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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“I found no evidence of explosives,” reported the inspector from the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy after checking the Flint Hill quarry site on Tuesday, a day earlier than expected.
Robert E. Morgan said he visited the site with owner W. A. Gentry and Ellis Bennett, former quarry worker who initially suggested that undetonated dynamite had been left there when blasting operations ceased some 10 years ago.
Mr. Morgan was looking for “leg wires,” plastic coated copper wiring which would have been , ,,, attached to electrical blasting ; caps. He found none. In addition, he saw no abnormalities in the rock pile itself. “All the rock is fractured. That’s an indication that the dynamite went off,” he explained.
The inspector, who teaches a course in explosives theory and handling, said that the type used at the quarry had three parts: a cap, a dynamite primer and a blasting agent, in this case ammonium nitrate. “Most of the hole was filled with ammonium nitrate — it’s cheap!” Mr. Morgan reported. “It’s basically fer
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