[meteorite-list] News Release Arizona

From: Rhett Bourland <rbourlan_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:51 2004
Message-ID: <IOEBKAHMGFBDJMOFGDFNKEBLDFAA.rbourlan_at_evansville.net>

Something tells me you're not exactly the first person in Arizona to go
looking for meteorites or even offering rewards for them...............

Rhett Bourland
www.asteroidmodels.com
www.asteroidmodels.com/personal
www.meteoritecollectors.org

-----Original Message-----
From: meteorite-list-admin_at_meteoritecentral.com
[mailto:meteorite-list-admin_at_meteoritecentral.com]On Behalf Of Rick
Nowak
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 4:44 PM
To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
Subject: [meteorite-list] News Release Arizona



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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