[meteorite-list] Largest single Pallasite?

From: David Freeman <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Oct 28 12:26:10 2004
Message-ID: <41811D8E.6020901_at_fascination.com>

Dear Bob;
Very very good story and extremely good points!
Dave F.
(who lives 60 miles from the 1872 Diamond Hoax Site)
I am very familiar with the hoax here, they were very popular.

Robert Warren wrote:

> Hello Al and others interested,
>
> Yes there was a gold rush going on around the time Evans reportedly
> found his meteorite. Though most people think it occurred only along
> the coast line south of Port Orford, that is not true. The naming of
> Johnson Mountain, the one that Plotkin says he search on, is after a
> man who was at first called 'Bovine Johnson.' He worked for a
> lumbering operation east-northeast of Port Orford. He had a friend
> who was involved with an Indian woman. She told him how to go to one
> creek and he could find gold there. He did and did find gold. Then
> he told Bovine, how to get there, which Bovine did. Bovine found so
> much gold there, they changed his name to Coarse Gold Johnson, and the
> creek was named after him, hence Johnson's Creek, which is at the base
> of Johnsons mountain. The mountain was named after him because he
> continued living along Johnson's creek digging gold. But even then as
> today, and as LaPaz foundout back in the 1930's and 1940's, it is not
> easy moving around on any of the mountains out there, unless they had
> been burned off. There is simply to much underbrush. In the case of
> LaPaz, one of his assistants went into the brush and moved around
> within 50 yards for a day, and nobody saw him. They could hear him,
> but since the brush was so thick, they couldn't see any sign of him.
> And that search was on a mountain that is within sight of Port Orford,
> to the southeast, today called bald knob.
>
> According to the the Port Orford Quadrangle book byu the U. S.
> Geological Survey, during the 1880's, the 1890's, and several times
> during the early 20th century, there were mudslides and landslides
> along many of those very same creeks. Throughout the first 50 years
> of the 20th century, there were a number of reports published in the
> newspapers, where someone found a piece of pallasitic meteorite in
> several of the creeks. They turned them over to a man named Foshag,
> who worked for the Smithsonian. They have never been seen since, and
> the Smithsonian claims they never had them.
>
> Overall, the questions to ask are as follows.
>
> 1) DID EVANS FIND A METEORITE?
> 2) DID HE BUY A PIECE OF IMILAC FROM A SO CALLED ROCK AND MINERAL
> DEALER IN PANAMA?
> (There is no evidence of such a dealer being in existence, in
> any of the books, journals, scientific publications I have found, in
> any other source other than in Plotkin.)
> 3) OR DID C. T. JACKSON TAKE A PIECE OF IMILAC FROM HIS COLLECTION
> AND PASS IT OFF AS A PIECE FROM PORT ORFORD, AND HE KEPT THE ORIGINAL
> MATERIAL?
> 4) PLOTKIN HAS NOT MENTIONED IN PRINT, NOR HAS THE SMITHSONIAN, ANY
> INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRUE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AT ANY POINT ON THE
> WEST COAST DURING THE 1850'S. WHY? THAT SEEMS TO BE A CRUCIAL ASPECT
> OF PLOTKINS AND HIS "EVANS HOAX" THEORY.
> 5) WHY DOESN'T PLOTKINS MENTION HOW WHILE EVANS WAS IN THE PORTLAND
> AREA, HE MADE HIS OWN MEASUREMENTS OF THE WILLAMETTE MERIDIAN? That
> measurement would be needed for anyone conducting surveys such as
> Evans was doing.
> 6) WHY DOESN'T PLOTKINS MENTION THE OTHER SURVEYORS WHO WERE WORKING
> IN THE SAME AREA AT THE SAME TIME? One of them became well known in
> California after he made a survey in Southwestern Oregon in the 1850's.
>
> By the way, if anyone is interested, I have gotten much of this
> information from actual newspapers from that time period, and from
> books, both published by the Smithsonian, including their annual
> reports, the U.S. Geological survey reports, and booklets, and from
> books written and printed privately, but the sources of their material
> is checkable.
>
> I just think there are too many, way too many questions about Plotkin
> and his theory. Too many things in his booklet, do not add up, in
> light of the actual records from the 1850's, till today.
>
> Have a good day,
>
> Bob Warren
>
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