| Show A bag hole in arizona G K gilbert and marcus balder the former chief geologist of the united states geological survey with a force of men have returned to flagstaff from 1 canyon diablo where they were sent by the government to take observations and make a map of the region where go haai they sixteen days investigating the mammoth hole bathe supposed to have been made by a meteor the hole is feet deep and 2 miles in circumference the theory ia that from the appearance of the walls and the fact that they have found many pieced of meteoric iron around the hole the meteor penetrated the earth to a depth of or feet before it exploded and this accounts for the strange phenomenon three pieces of the meteor weighing and pounds respectively were found on the mesa within two miles of the crater and are now in the smithsonian institution besides they found many pieced weighing from two ounces upward Tomps tono epitaph |
