[meteorite-list] Largest single Pallasite?

[David Freeman]

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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