188 



TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



[mat 5, 



quarter, Section 27, Township 28, Kange 17, west of the 6th 

 principal meridian. 



The history of some of the pieces is remarkable. The 35.72- 

 pound piece was found on the Evans place, was lost, and again 

 found in a hole made by hogs under a barbed-wire fence. The 

 75-pound mass was used by Mrs. Kimberly to hold down a cellar- 

 door or the cover of a rain-barrel. No. 3 was used to keep down 

 a stable-roof (Fig. 3). The 466-pound mass (called by the farm- 

 ers the ''moon meteorite^') was covered by only three inches 



Fig. 3. — Diagram showing wliere the masses were found. 



of soil, and broke a ploughshare when first struck. Apparently 

 none of the masses were buried to a greater depth than five or 

 six inches. 



The 101.5-pound, the 71.5-pound, and the 55-pound masses 

 were found four years ago by a cowboy, when the ranch had not 

 yet been occupied by settlers, being simply used as a cattle-range. 

 He was unable to move them to the '' Green's Stage Station,'* 

 now Greensburg, eight miles distant, and so buried them in the 

 gulch a mile northwest of the Kimberly farm on the " Fran- 

 cisco Claim.'' About a year afterward he became ill and died; 

 but before his death ho communicated the burial of the "three 

 strange rocks," as he called them, to two of the settlers, who 



