[meteorite-list] NP Article, 02-1908 Meteorite Find?

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:45 2004
Message-ID: <OE104h6gz9OrQuDhO2900004bd6_at_hotmail.com>

Title: Trenton Evening Times
City: Trenton, Nj
Date: Monday, February 24, 1908
Page: 2

FINDS METEORITE 2000 YEARS OLD

     The Post-Intelligencer of Seattle says: H. G. Herrold, the timber
cruiser of Tacoma, who last fall discovered a meteorite in the foothills of
the Baker mountans in Whatcom County, and who has been corresponding with
the Smithsonian Institution and several other museums of the country
relative to the sale of teh curiosity, has recieved an offer of $2,000 for
it.
     Mr. Herrold does not at present say what museum has made him the offer
for the celestrial visitant, but the institution has notified him that its
representative will make an examination of the meteorite. the meteorite,
which was described in the Post-Intelligencer of December 20 lest, is a
monolith four feet wide, six feet high and ten feet long, and consists of
the meteorite iron, according to Mr. Herrold, that when once seen can never
be mistaken. He says the meteorite was probably three times its present
size when it fell, and he is convinced from observation made on the spot
that it fell at least 2,000 years ago, and probably 2,500.
     "The meteorite is lying on a hogback," said Mr. Herrold recently. "A
little creek that now flows through the forest close by it has been formed
since and has been flowing down its bed for untold ages. The big hole made
in the earth by the mighty impact of teh monolith, as it was hurled by the
power of gravity, has all been healed by the erosion of the centuries of
rainfall, leaving the meteorite, which was originally half buried, lying
almost on the top of the ground."
     A scrapiron man of the city has made Herrold an offer for the
meteorite, providing he will deliver it. This is where the shoe pinches as
according to letters Herrold has received from museums, it wil take a great
amoun of money to get it out of the foothills.
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