I PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK MEETING 



The announcement was also made by the Secretary that the next 

 Winter meeting would probabl}^ be held at Albany, New York. 



The reading of papers was cleclared in order. The first paper of the 

 program was 



GEOLOGY OF THE SILVER PEAK RANGE, NEVADA 

 BY H. W. TURNER 



In absence of the author the next paper was read b}^ J. F. Kemp : 



NATIVE COPPER NEAR ENID, OKLAHOMA 

 BY ERASMUS IIAWORTH AND JOHN RENNE'IT 



Contents • 



Page 



Discovery and location of the copper 2 



Section of well in which discovery was made 2 



Nature of the copper deposit 3 



Origin of the copper 3 



Nature of the Red beds :5 



Chemical reactions 4 



Original source of the copper 4 



Disco VKRY and Location of thi-: Copper 



About two years ago an unknown person sent to the University of Kansas for 

 identification a sample of material which proved to he unusually interesting. It 

 consisted mainly of a piece of the well known Ked I'eds clay shale so common in 

 southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma, hat in small crevices or fissures within 

 the mass were mimerous thin sheets of metallic c<)|)per, from a half inch to two 

 inches in width, so thin that they could he rolled between thund) and finger almost 

 as readily as tinfoil. 



For two years persistent efforts were made to learn the location of this find and 

 information regarding it. Last autumn these efforts were successful. , The location 

 is about 18 miles northwest from Enid, on the farm of Mr O. P. Barnes, near the 

 northwest part of Garfield county, Oklahoma. 



Oklahoma was opened for homesteading as agricultural lands, and Mr Barnes 

 and neighl)ors feared that the finding of this native copper would cause the land 

 to be classed as mining land and thereby interfere with their homesteads, and 

 hence the difficulty in learning details concerning the discovery. 



The farm of ^Ir IJarnes occupies a i)ortion of the watershed between the Cimarron 

 river on the south and a tributary of the Arkansas on the north. It is well within 

 the Red Beds area, but just where on the vertical scale is not yet determined. 



Section of Well in which Discovery was Made 

 The copper was found in a six-inch stratum at the bottom of the well 32 feet 



