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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



1. I860: Shumard. Notice of meteoric iron from Texas. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 1, p. 622-623. 



(Analysis by Riddell.) 



2. 1858-1862: von Reichenbach. No. 6, p. 448; No. 9, pp. 174, 181; No. 10, pp. 359, 365; No. 15, pp. 110, 124, 



126; No. 16, pp. 261, 262; No. 17, pp. 266, 272; No. 18, p. 487; No. 19, pp. 149, 154; No. 20, p. 622. 



3. 1884: Mallet. On a mass of meteoric iron from Wichita County, Texas. Amer. Journ. Sci., 3d ser., vol. 28, pp. 



285-288 (new analysis). 



4. 1885: Brezina. Wiener Sammlung, pp. 155, 207, 215-216, and 234 (pis. 2 and 3). 



5. 1886: Huntington. Crystalline structure. Amer. Journ. Sci., 3d ser., vol. 32, p. 295. 



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Bd. 4, p. 105. 



7. 1891: Cohen and Weinschenk. Meteoreisen-Studien. Ann. K. K. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, Bd. 6, pp. 131, 



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160, and 161. 



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10. 1895: Brezina. Wiener Sammlung, p. 2S5. 



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WILLAMETTE. 



Clackamas County, Oregon. 



Latitude 45° 22' N., longitude 122° 35' W. 



Iron. Coarse octahedrite (Og) of Brezina. 



Found 1902; described 1904. 



Weight, 13.5 tons (27,000 lbs.), computed. 



The first scientific mention of this meteorite appears to have been bj T Kunz * who gave the 

 following account: 



This great meteoric mass was found in the autumn of 1902 by Mr. Dale, a prospector, on land belonging to the 

 Oregon Iron and Steel Company about 2 miles south of Oregon City. The official statement of its location is T. 2 S., 

 R. 1 E. of Willamette meridian. It was dug loose from the soil and removed on a truck to adjacent land belonging to 

 Mr. Ellis Hughes, where a suit is now (January, 1903) in progress for its recovery. The mass is roughly conical or 

 dome-shaped, extensively pitted and at one point perforated. The mass measures 10 feet in length by 7 in width 

 and 5 in height. 



In February, 1904, the locality was visited by Ward and a full account of the meteorite 

 was given by him as follows: 2 



This most interesting meteorite, noble in size and wonderful in physical features, was found near the border of 

 Clackamas County, Oregon, in the autumn of 1902. At this point in its course the Willamette River, 80 miles south 

 of its junction with the Columbia, runs between high banks of sedimentary rocks. At Oregon City, 16 miles south of 

 Portland, these banks come as cliffs down close to the river, which on the western side they follow southward for 3£ 

 miles to the town of Willamette. This meteorite having been found 2 miles from this town (to the northwest), I have 

 given it the name Willamette meteorite. Its exact locality is latitude 45° 22' N., longitude 122° 35' W. The region 

 immediately surrounding is a series of hills, distant foothills of the Cascade Range, with their steeply sloping sides cut 

 into by streamlets flowing into the Willamette. One of these streams is the Tualitin. On a hillside, 3 miles above the 

 mouth of the Tualitin, fell, apparently centuries ago, the Willamette siderite, the third largest iron meteorite in the world. 

 The region is a wild one, covered by a primeval forest of pines and birch, little visited and largely inaccessible. Here 

 on the spur of the hill in a email level area lay the great iron mass, lightly buried in soil and the carpet of accumulated 

 vegetable debris. In the valley, half a mile away, there lives with his family, a humble, intelligent Welshman, Mr. Ellis 

 Hughes. He had formerly worked in Australian mines. He had with him in 1902 a prospector named Dale, and 

 together they roamed over the hills seeking minerals. One day a blow on a little rock projecting from the soil showed 

 it 'to be metal. They dug and found its great dimensions and learned that it was iron. It was on land which they 

 learned belonged to a land company. For some months they kept the find a secret, hoping to buy the land on which 

 the "mine" was located. Some months later they ascertained in some way that their supposed iron reef, which they 

 had found to be but 10 feet long and a yard or more deep, was a meteorite. They became more secretive than ever 

 and covered their find most carefully. 



In August, 1903, Mr. Dale in the meantime having left the country, Mr. Hughes conceived the idea of bringing the 

 great iron mass to his house, a distance of nearly three-fourths of a mile. This seemed an almost impossible task, he having 

 only his son of 15 years and a small horse as motive power. But he was an old miner, full of mechanical resources, and also 

 full of pluck and energy. With infinite pains he fashioned a simple capstan with a chain to anchor it and a long braided 



