[meteorite-list] NPA 12-16-1905 Meteor Crater Mining, Interesting Note at End

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: Nevada State Journal
City: Reno, Nevada
Date: Saturday, December 16, 1905
Page: 7

SINKING FOR A LOST METEOR

Something indeed Novel in the History of Mining in the Western Districts

     What is undoubtedly one of the most unique mining undertakings in the 
country is under way in Northern Arizona, with promise of being successful. 
The Standard Iron Company of New York, is sinking a shaft six miles south of 
Diablo station, on the Santa Fe railroad, close to Canyon Diablo, for the 
purpose of recovering and smelting a gigantic meteor which struck the earth 
many years ago, probably in the prehistoric period. The meteor tore a hole 
in the earth 600 feet deep and fragments of it are scattered all over the 
surrounding country. The fragments have been analyzed and are found to be 
pure iron, running high in silver and gold. Many pieces are large as a box 
car have been found and the returns at the smelter have been very high. The 
Standard Iron Company begun working to locate the meteor about a year ago 
and a shaft from the bottom of the great hole which it knocked in the 
surface of the earth has already been sunk to a depth of 400 feet, making a 
total of 1000 feet the company has gone into the earth. From the pieces of 
the meteor found on the surface the prospectors have realized a goodly sum 
in days gone by. At one time the Indians made a good living bringing these 
fragments into the traders, who paid them $100 a ton for all they brought. 
Even at this price and in the days when there were no railroads they shipped 
it to smelters on burros and made money out of the transaction.

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Has anyone heard of the $100 a ton/burro story before? (I can't seem to 
remember it)

Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
Wichita, Kansas
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