Show MANTI MAN FINDS LARGE METEORITE r Harry Fox of Manti discovered a large meteorite and with a number of other Manti men promptly had it lo located ted It is their intention to bring it to Manti as soon as it is possible to get equipment for hauling it It is reported to be four feet feet- in diameter and estimated to weigh four or five tons It is composed of a most tough iron composition and readily resists a drill and has lias a crust about 12 inches in thickness of some stony formation formation formation forma forma- tion around the outside This outer outer outer out out- er crust is much softer than the central part but still is hard enough to resist degrees of heat scale It is some time ago since this meteorite was first discovered No No particular attention was paid to to i until an article by Dr Talmadge Talmadge Talmadge Tal- Tal madge on meteorites appear appeared d in ina in ina a Sal Salt Lake newspaper calling attention to the properties of some meteorites and that the Maryland College of the state of Maryland had appropriated the sum ot of to secure a meteorite Manti Manti Messenger |