So, if I read it correctly the granite came from Georgia already with the dynamitee.
"The dynamite apparently was brought to Springfield inside the slab from a quarry in Georgia, Hawley said."
I mean it's just not everyday that you misplace your stick of dynamite.
I had to read the article several times, it looks as though the rock was drilled and the dynamite put into it, as part of the mining operation, but that stick did not explode.
It is something the miners are very careful of and it is not often that they don't count the blasts as they go off one by one.
When I was still a greenhorn, we were out in the desert hills out of Yuma, looking at the old mines.
About half the hill had been drilled and set with dynamite, some 50 years before......and never set off.
I found all that lovely wire and was planning on taking it home with me.......until Bill caught up with me on the path and made me leave....without the wire.
There are still caves that were used for dynamite storage, that will have the old dynamite in them, we would find them now and then and leave very quickly, it is very unsafe when it is old.