Articles from the January 23, 2015 edition

Jan 23, 2015

Dynamite found By Finn J.D. John There was a time, not so many years ago, when every Oregonian over the age of 12 had access to dynamite. Not that they could simply walk into a hardware store and buy some — although in the early years, they could. But even as late as the 1960s, the laws restricting explosives purchasing were mild enough that it wasn’t uncommon for farmers to buy the stuff for stump removal, or to work a mining claim. And you don’t have to go back too many years before that to reach a time when anybody who wanted dyn...