Excerpt from Dust Explosions and Fires in Grain Separators in the Pacific Northwest Early results prior to the opening of the threshing season indicated that Opinion as to the cause Of explosions and fires Of this nature was divided between natural causes and incendiarism. The principal reason advanced for this latter conclusion was that prior to the 1914 season explosions were not very frequent. This led to the conclusion that means were being - taken maliciously to destroy the separators by introducing matches and explosives into the grain bundles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.