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I doubt that 20 feet of blasting cord is a threat, unless it were for bomb making.

I think that we kept 50 to 200 feet of it for our use and we were only weekend miners.

Now, the story with 2,000', is of interest, it would be one heavy and large bucket to hold that much, imagine 2000' foot of clothesline rope and you will be close, but the cord will weigh more.

It seems to me, that the 2,000' was a good story and now the fear mining starts, and any little story that can be found, will be published.

I would think that a lot of folks in New Mexico, could legally own blasting cord.

The only thing strange, was that the owner denies owning it.

It has been 25 years since we had need of it, but back in the heavy mining days, Mac a partner, went to Phoenix and bought the dynamite and we had gotten the rest from Mary.

Mac was legal, got the permits and signs for the truck.

I never went with them on blasting days, my eardrums were ruptured as a child, so I don't do loud blasts well.

Glad that I was young in the "Good Old Days", when we were still a free country. Doubt very much that I could get the permits to remove ore from the mine today.

Ruth