4:32 W. P. Jenney— Great Nevada Meteor of 1894,. 



telegraph, reported that he heard a faint noise ; from all of 

 which it appears that the explosion was nearly over Candelaria. 

 The San Francisco Examiner telegraphed the operator at 

 Candelaria for all the facts about the meteor, and an article on 

 the subject was printed in the Examiner about February 5th 

 to lOthi 1894. 



Discussion by the Writer. 



Other observers state that, immediately following the flash, 

 the path of the meteor across the sky was a broad band of 

 intense brilliant red, stretching from west to east ; all the while 

 the path was blazing with the combustion of material detached 

 from the meteor in its flight. As the meteor passed on, the 

 band of light gradually contracted in width, the sides coming 

 together, and the light fading out until only a waning line of 

 luminous smoke remained floating in the air for several minutes 

 before it disappeared. Estimates made of the breadth of this 

 band forming the track of the meteor vary widely ; some say- 

 ing it looked to be at least 25 feet wide ; others, taking possi- 

 bly into account the distance it must be away, thought the path 

 blazed in the sky exceeded 100 feet in breadth, and might have 

 been greater. Several tell that the meteor itself looked to be 

 three to five times the diameter of the moon as she appears 

 when rising. 



It is probable that the explosion was caused by the forma- 

 tion of a thick crust resulting from the oxidation of the metal, 

 which confined the gases generated in the nucleus — the force 

 of the explosion dissipating in dust the outer shell. This is 

 confirmed by the fact that no one saw the meteor break up ; 

 after the flash it continued its flight in a single path as long as 

 it could be seen. 



It should be noted that the meteor in its path, coming from 

 over the Pacific Ocean, passed to the north of, and paralleled 

 the Mount Diablo base line, passing north of San Francisco. 

 This meteor is reported to have been seen, traveling across the 

 sky far to the south, by people living at that time in Belmont, 

 Nevada, so that it continued its flight at least fifty miles east 

 of Candelaria, across the deserts of Nevada. 



Peculiar interest attaches to the meteor of Candelaria since 

 it seems probable that the great meteorite of Quinn Canyon, 

 found in 1908, may be the part of it which reached the earth. 

 This meteorite was described by the writer in the " Mining 

 and Scientific Press" for Jan. 9, 1909, and the chief facts in 

 regard to it are here repeated. 



The meteorite was found in the latter part of August, 1908, 

 by a prospector in the foothills of the Quinn Canyon range* in 



* Called in some maps the Grant Mountains. 



