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tends, in the main, to the earlier intrusions in the batholite, 
since, with one exception, these are relatively acid, and 
differ but little in composition from the sedentary members 
of the batholite. 
(Continued in August Number.) 
EDITORIAL COMMENT. 
ANOTHER METEORITE IN THE SUPREME COURT. 
It was decided by the Iowa supreme court, in the case 
of the Winnebago meteorite, that the meteorite belongs to 
the owner of the land on which it falls. The tenant found 
the stone and sold it. The owner brought suit to regain it, 
and after some years of litigation and delay the court 
assigned the meteorite to the owner of the land. 
The Oregon meteorite case is somewhat different. A 
metallic mass is admitted by both parties to be of meteoric 
nature and origin, and as such, according to the Iowa de- 
cision, it belongs to the owner of the land on which it fell. 
The date of its fall however is unknown, and there is evi- 
dence tending to show that it was a piece of personal prop- 
erty, separate from the land on which it was found, for 
many years prior to the date of discovery. The issue and 
the attendant conditions have been stated as follows by the 
Oregon Journal: 
The Oregon City meteorite case was argued before the supreme 
court yesterday. This is an action brought by the Oregon Iron & 
Steel company to obtain possession of the metallic meteorite found 
by Ellis Hughes in November, 1902, on the land of the Oregon Iron 
& Steel company, about two and a half miles west of Oregon City. 
The interesting subject of this controversy was found standing up- 
right on a slight knoll. It is of metallic composition, with a dull, 
rusty surface, its top or flat surface being gouged out into huge pot- 
holes or washbowls. As it stood it resembled very much in ap- 
pearance a mammoth mushroom or inverted bell, in size seven by 
ten feet across at the top, and four and a half feet thick, its weight 
being estimated at from three to four tons. It has the specific 
gravity of soft iron, and in composition is 90 per cent soft iron, 10 
per cent nickel, with a trace of cobalt. 
Hughes alleged that this was an abandoned Indian relic and 
