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dc.date.issued1938-12-12
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/63113
dc.descriptionNotes of the individuals interviewed and locations visited related to the Floydada, Texas, Meteorite.
dc.relationOscar Monnig Papers (MS 124)
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dc.sourceSeries III, Box 06, Floydada, TX folder
dc.subjectMeteorite
dc.subjectFloydada meteorite
dc.subjectFloydada (Tex.)
dc.subjectStevenson, R. F.
dc.subjectSilverton meteorite
dc.titleNotes on Floydada, Texas, Meteorite, December 12, 1938
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dc.description.transcription1938, Dec. 12. NOTES ON FLOYDADA, TEXAS, METEORITE When I obtained the meteorite from R. F. Stevenson of Silverton on Oct. 30, 1938, he stated it had been found by C. L. Bradford of the "Baker Community” about 10 miles SE of Floydada, on Route 5, in June or July of 1938. Stevenson has had, it about 2 weeks. He reported it was found "on the prairie". A Mr. Newson, either the surveyor or a deputy surveyor at Floydada, had heard of it, and it seems that Stevenson had subscribed for some paper thru Newsom's wife; apparently it came to his attention thru these folks. Later I found that Mrs. Newsom was the daughter of Homer Steen, Editor of the Floyd County Hesperian, which was apparently the paper Steve. took. Stevenson claimed the meteorite weighed just 3 oz. less than 28 lbs. when first found, before anything was taken off. On Nov. 1 I interviewed Bradford; Steveson [Stevenson] had said B. owned the farm, but I learned that the owner was “Mistress Kate Lucius” of Mana, La. C. L. Bradford, Route 5, Floydada aubrents the south 1/2 of the Section from his cousin. He has been on the place 3 year--this is the third crop he's made there. He first noticed the meteorite early last spring; it was lying on top of the ground, not at all burled, but loose It was some 100 ft. from the farm there was a litter of broken Insulators and odd bits of tin and trash within 10 to 25 ft. of the exact spot where he recalled the object as having been. When he finally lifted the object and began to examine it, he soon got the idea it might be a meteorite. It is his opinion that some one hauled it there for Junk--presumably some previous tenant who had plowed it up. The pasture lies in general to the SE of the house, and the land on which it was found Is in that pasture, uncultivated and grassy. Tate Jones, who lives E of Bradford and about 1 mile W of the town of Dougherty, was on the place 2 years, and Lee Jones, Tate's uncle, was there at one time. The point of find is on the inside slope of the NW portion of a relatively large "lake" probably to 1 section in diameter, definitely nearer the edge of the lake than the center. It lies in the SE 1/4 of the Sec. Bradford's farm is in. On the store platform scales, the piece as I got it weighed 27 lbs. 8 oz. Mr. Steen thought the piece taken out of one side had been chopped with a cold chisel, but the spot has been smoothed with a file or hack saw and probably the latter instrument was used originally. He and Bradford acted as tho they knew of only one piece having been taken off; it was sent to Nininger. The meteorite was apparently In the Hesperian show windows for a couple of months, and then thru the suggestion of Edgar Howard, archaeologist or paleontologist excavator (U. of Pa.?) the matter was reffered [referred] to Nininger. He wrote, offering 31 a pound, tho it seems that first someone from his office had written they thought it was not a meteorite. In the interim, Stevenson met this price. My original directions to the Bradford home were, starting from the highway in S. central Floydada: 5 E, 2 S, 1 E, 3/4 S, to unpainted house with tin roof. I went 4 E to a filiing station and took first section road E of there to the S. Because of the peculiar shape of the iron, it gives off a ringing tone when struck, of pitch


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