[meteorite-list] News Release Arizona

From: Rick Nowak <internationalmeteoritesociety_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:51 2004
Message-ID: <20020125224653.3985.qmail_at_web21002.mail.yahoo.com>

--- Rick Nowak
<internationalmeteoritesociety_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> NEWS RELEASE ARIZONA UNKNOWN TO GENERAL PUBLIC.
>
> I sent this out to 5 Arizona Newspapers. Maybe
> someone
> in the community would like to take advantage of
> this
> before the general public does.Will the papers
> print?
> I can't say but............
>
> NEWS RELEASE
>
> Dear Editor,
>
> Meteorites are worth anywhere from % cents a gram to
> thousands of dollars per gram. Enclosed is
> information
> that will make a great story and lead to the
> possible
> recovery of a lost meteorite. Worth thousands upon
> thousands of dollars.
>
> From Find A Falling Star Harvey Nininger page 127
>
> There were so many tantalizing reports, and one of
> the
> most intriguing and convincing was a tale told to me
> in Prescott Arizona about 1940. I had gone into a
> bar
> on one of my customary tours of community hangouts
> seeking likely individuals with likely stories. I
> laid
> a nickel-iron meteorite on the bar beside a man who
> was drinking a bottle of beer. He looked it over
> carefully. "Are they worth anything?" I told him
> they
> were. He stood, looking past me for a moment, as if
> gathering details out of his memory. then he pointed
> to the cigarer vending machine. "I found one as big
> as
> that machine one time, but it's been fifteen years
> ago." He stroked the little specimen before him on
> the
> counter. "It was iron just like that, and had dents
> in
> it just like that, and when I hit it with my hammer
> it
> sounded just like an anvil. I know it was the very
> same thing." He had been a surveyor at the time and
> was running a line for the government. He told me
> what
> line it was. They came to a ravine they couldn't
> cross
> and he had gone south about a quarter mile to where
> it
> could be negotiated-and there in the ditch was this
> great hunk of iron. Neither he nor I had the time or
> money to make a ten day trip to the spot at the
> time,
> and I never was able to contact him again. Somehow I
> lost the notes I scribbled down, including the man's
> name. I had fully intended to follow up this lead,
> having him guide me to the spot. The territory in
> which he was working is seldom visited by anyone
> except deer hunters, and it may be a hundred years
> before another man see that great iron-if it really
> exists. Of all the hundred of reports I investigated
> in my years of meteorite hunting, more than a
> hundred
> yielded meteorites, and the other hundreds were dud.
> Few of the productive tales were more convincing
> than
> this man's reports. It is my believe he had found
> Arizona's finest meteorite.
>
> CONCLUSIONS
>
> The line was a Government line not a state line. the
> surveyor was working for the Government.
>
> The line must be very long. Needed 1o days 1 day
> driving 2 days walking line 6 days pulling out
> meteorite and 1 day going home.
>
> Nininger did not recall he would have to deal with
> an
> Indian council. Public hunting was allowed in the
> area. Do the Indians allow the general public to
> hunt
> their land?
>
> Go to www.arizonaroads.com/maps/
>
> and look at the 1927 Arizona highway map. The only
> Government lines arew Indian reservations and the
> Grand canyon. The surveyor said 16 years ago 1940
> minus 15 equals 1925
>
> FOCUS should be on the North line of the Grand
> Canyon
> running East and West during the year of 1925 and
> not
> the modern day lines
>
> Best of success to all Rick
>
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