2 PEOOEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vou 72 



When he [Jacobson] was a young mining engineer, just out of the University 

 of Arizona, he was employed by the Gold Basin Mining Co. on a location in 

 the north central part of this [Mohave] County, Ariz. This mine is located 

 about 40 miles north of Hackberry, Ariz., a few miles from the Colorado River. 

 Hackberry was the point of supply and the post office for this camp. One of 

 his duties was to make trips to and from Hackberry with mail, subsistence 

 supplies, and small articles, using a team of mules to an old fashioned 

 " buckboard." 



This was in the year 1904 or 1905, One evening he was driving from the 

 mine to Hackberry, in the afternoon, about 4.30 to 5 p. m., and he was 

 startled by a distant roar and his mules were frightened by it. He looked up 

 and to his rear, and observed a great " red body " falling obliquely toward him 

 from the northwest. It was emitting sparks, but was not as bright as meteor- 

 ites seen to fall in darkness. He was fearful that it would strike him; his 

 mules ran and he let them go to get away from danger. The body passed over 

 him to the southeast, and when it passed over the east rim of the valley (which, 

 by the way, is the Wallapai Valley; the same is bordered on the east by the 

 Music Mountains; they are the east rim mentioned) the red mass was high 

 enough to clear the top of the rim. He states that it passed over this rim, 

 directly over a mine known as the Music Mountain Mine, and he felt very 

 sure that it struck the earth just a short distance after it had passed over 

 this rim. He was so sure of this that he spent several days searching the part 

 of the Music Mountain rim where it disappeared, in an attempt to locate it. 

 He was unable to find it. 



The interesting part of the story is that the meteorite that you have was 

 discovered by Dick Grover, about 10 or 12 miles directly southeast of the 

 Music Mountain mine, and in line with the direction the body was seen to fall 

 by Mr. Jacobson. From my knowledge of the country and Mr. Jacobson's 

 description of the falling of this body, and the direction and line given by him, 

 I feel confident that the meteorite found by Grover is the one seen by Mr. 

 Jacobson to fall in 1904 or 1905. He failed to search far enough from the 

 point on the rim of the mountains where it disappeared from his view. The 

 startling impression made upon htm when the red-hot body passed over him, 

 caused him to think it was closer to the earth than it really was, and its actual 

 altitude permitted it to clear the rim of the mountains, and continue for 10 to 

 15 miles before coming to a stop by coming in contact with the surface of the 

 earth. 



With reference to the disposition of the iron Mr. Light suggested 

 that the smaller of the two should become the property of the Uni- 

 versity at Tucson and offered his services in securing the larger for 

 the United States National Museum, kindly making a recommenda- 

 tion to this effect in his letter to the Indian Commissioner in Wash- 

 ington. Through these combined agencies the iron reached Wash- 

 ington on June 9, 1927, where it was cleaned, weighed, cut, photo- 

 graphed, and analyzed with the results given below. 



The iron as shown in the photograph is in form of an elongated 

 rounded mass with abundant shallow pittings, but with no marks by 

 which its orientation in flight can be estimated for a certainty; too 

 much obscurity has been produced by terrestrial oxidation. The 

 maximum length, or height of the mass, as it stands in Plate 2 is 

 22 inches; the width 16 or 17 inches, the form in cross section being 



