Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1913 — STONES THAT SEEK COMPANY [ARTICLE]

STONES THAT SEEK COMPANY

Peculiarity of Small Rocks of Nevada Draws Them Together as >by a Magnet “Traveling stone*, ’’ from the sis* of » flea to six Inches in diameter, are found in Nevada. When distributed on on a floor or other level surface, within two or three feet of one another, ‘they Immediately begin to travel toward a common oentar, and there lie paddled like a clutch ad egg* in a

nest A single stone removed to a distance of 3% feet, upon being released, at once started with wonderful and somewhat comical celerity to Join its fellows. These queer stones are found in a region that is comparatively level and little more than a bare rock. Scattered over this barren region are little basins, from a few feet to a rod or two In diameter, and It Is in the bottom of these that the rolling stones are found. The cause for the strange oonduct J ' *.

of these stones is doubtless to be found in the material of which they are composed, which appears to be loadstone or magnetic iron ore.