Show A STONY N MAY BRING fj FANCY PRICE A farmer once eted as a a weight for foil his rain barrel band cover a stone worth a hundred dollars dollar s A doorstop door stop in a certain office proved to be more valuable than the room ings A stone worth several hundred dollard dolla iril wip vat ikid is as a door steu sten for many any years before its ita true nature was discovered A kansas farm wife paid off the farm mortgage by selling milling ns spec specimens linens stoned which lind been considered worthless meteorites Meteorite 1 are rare yet there may be one on your farm or one may be brought into your sour office study the description following and he be prepared to recognize these rare raie visitors from space there are three types of meteor itei stones lions irons and abd stony irons stony meteorites are most likely to 1 be overlooked yet in most case they could be with a fall fair degree of certainty by the layman hold your suspected stone on the emery wheel for a few seconds anti and see whether grinding reveals grains of metal some times the there e granis grams of nick ol h lion on are aie so small that a lens lend Is is needed to see them are usually heavier in to their aze than terres aci res trial rocks they are black on the surface 1 if frenily freI f re lily ily fallen or they my may ta become e come brown bron by weathering in ibale meteorites tire are quite variable but the surface Is nearly always marked by certain depres biens which look like thumb marks the size of the meteorites meteorite varies front from tiny pebbles to matay tons tong but tho the maju majority rits are aie less lebs than a hundred pounds in weight in mount inoima regions prospectors atad aind us assayers sayers tire arc most likely to 10 meet with meteorite in farming country the plowman la Is most liable to discover li them more have been bech found by the plow than by any other moans means toi to careful estimates e any ahny area the size of an ordinary md western co anity has boen been the landing place of one or more moie meteorites if lar grely in cultivation there phere is a fair chance that these will be fauna the value of meteorites ves lies in their possibilities for scientific study they should never be seriously broken if it can be avoided but a fragment is better than nothing so if a specimen is broken every particle should be saved it 13 I 1 very important that nil all of a meteorite be delivered to the man who is to it 2 meteorites come from god knows where they arrive from outer oilier space traveling travel lne at velocities averaging far from arom 30 miles per second they rhey often fall f ail in showers which sometimes result from the explosion of a 1 mass while in the air lare stones bury themi nivea selve sl deeply in the earth while smaller selnes st seldom so go below plow depth sonic some even remain on the surface send very small samples of 0 suspected atones for foe examination this will ill make possible ident I 1 licit antion tion we do not wish to be obligated to ress whole stones nones anle unless 0 ot f s small m al I 1 size send only fra ments A prompt report will be made as to the true mature of the specimen clinen and is as to Js value A farm boy once paid tor for a year of college by the sale mile of c e meteorite found while blowin n address Ad diess II 11 H nininger mcpherson college rolle KP mcpherson kansas |