Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1914 — SEEK RICHES IN METEORITE [ARTICLE]

SEEK RICHES IN METEORITE

English Expedition Will Go to Break . Up Big StoAe Believed to Have Fallen From Moon. An expedition is shortly starting from England for Disco island, off the coast of Greenland, with the object of breaking up and bringing away the big meteorite there. It weighs ovei 100 tons, and the theory is that it was projected on to this earth from du moon countless years ago. Fragments' of it have already been carried away and assayed, with the result that it has been found to contain Iron, copper and silver, besides rarer metals, including polonium. Now polonium is a cousin of radium. Hence the expedition. The organizers yf it argue that if they can only extract from the meteorite even a small fraction of an ounce of radium their fortunes are nude It is quite possible, too, they .say, that there may be large diamonds inside the mass. Very small diamonds hdve undoubtedly been taken from the interiors of meteorites. Then, too* there is in existence a diamond of fair size taken from a meteorite near Tucson, Aris.