[meteorite-list] Barringer Meteor $$$$
From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:37 2004 Message-ID: <BADF44CE.6656%mlblood_at_cox.net> > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --MS_Mac_OE_3135194318_1067664_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mark and All, I TOTALLY agree, Mark. I have felt exactly that way since I first started reading about meteorites way back when. The entire basis of the claim is false. Barringer did NOT shell out money to buy the crater.... he got it for FREE as a mining claim! Outrageous at the time. Outrageous now. It IS like a family "running" the Grand Canyon. They control the crater and the many acres surrounding it. Where did they get it? Berringer filed a mining claim. Michael on 5/7/03 10:55 PM, MARK BOSTICK at thebigcollector_at_msn.com wrote: The always helpful Steve schoner wrote: My opinion... Meteor Crater should be owned by the people of the United States, and managed by the National Park Service. The mining claim is invalid; there is no mineable meteorite resource in or under the southern rim, and the only thing being mined are the pockets of those now paying to see it. The opinion of many, including myself would agree with that. As I wrote in my latest Collectors Corner article their is no way I would have paid the $14.00 (per a person) I did a couple months ago had I not traveled all that way just to see it. By comparison, a whole family can visit the grand canyon for $20.00 for a car load. It seems to me that upkeep at the Grand Canyon would cost much more then upkeep at Meteor Crater. I think that the history of the crater given by the currant owners is totally bias and in very ill towards a man many of us hold with the greatest esteem (Nininger). Further by definition of national law of protecting sites of historic or scientific interest, I do not understand why the Barringer family has been allowed to keep the crater. To say that the land feature does not warrant national protection is wrong. Since no meteorites have ever been mined and claimed by the Barringer family, it seems to me their claim is not valid. It is not hard to understand why Nininger was bitter about the way he was treated by many including the Barringers. How nice it would have been to visit the crater, and this nice meteorite museum that could have been......and yet one man wanted nothing more then to donate his lifetime of work for just such a thing (Nininger). Sorry for the short rant and rave.... Mark Bostick --MS_Mac_OE_3135194318_1067664_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [meteorite-list] Barringer Meteor $$$$</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Mark and All,<BR> I TOTALLY agree, Mark. I have fe= lt exactly that way since I first<BR> started reading about meteorites way back when. <BR> The entire basis of the claim is= false. Barringer did NOT shell <BR> out money to buy the crater.... he got it for FREE as a mining claim! <BR> Outrageous at the time. Outrageous now. It IS like a family "running&q= uot;<BR> the Grand Canyon. They control the crater and the many acres <BR> surrounding it. Where did they get it? Berringer filed a mining claim. <BR> Michael<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> on 5/7/03 10:55 PM, MARK BOSTICK at thebigcollector_at_msn.com wrote:<BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>The always helpful Steve schoner wrote:<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> My opinion...<BR> <BR> Meteor Crater should be owned by the people of the<BR> United States, and managed by the National Park<BR> Service. The mining claim is invalid; there is no<BR> mineable meteorite resource in or under the southern<BR> rim, and the only thing being mined are the pockets of<BR> those now paying to see it.<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> The opinion of many, including myself would agree with that. As I wro= te in my latest Collectors Corner article their is no way I would have paid = the $14.00 (per a person) I did a couple months ago had I not traveled all t= hat way just to see it. By comparison, a whole family can visit the gr= and canyon for $20.00 for a car load. It seems to me that upkeep at th= e Grand Canyon would cost much more then upkeep at Meteor Crater. I th= ink that the history of the crater given by the currant owners is totally bi= as and in very ill towards a man many of us hold with the greatest esteem (N= ininger). Further by definition of national law of protecting sites of= historic or scientific interest, I do not understand why the Barringer fami= ly has been allowed to keep the crater. To say that the land feature d= oes not warrant national protection is wrong. Since no meteorites have= ever been mined and claimed by the Barringer family, it seems to me their c= laim is not valid. It is not hard to understand why Nininger was bitte= r about the way he was treated by many including the Barringers.  = ;How nice it would have been to visit the crater, and this nice meteorite mu= seum that could have been......and yet one man wanted nothing more then to d= onate his lifetime of work for just such a thing (Nininger). <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> Sorry for the short rant and rave....<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> Mark Bostick<BR> <BR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> </BODY> </HTML> --MS_Mac_OE_3135194318_1067664_MIME_Part-- Received on Thu 08 May 2003 02:18:38 AM PDT |
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