Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1917 — TRAVELING STONES ARE ODD [ARTICLE]

TRAVELING STONES ARE ODD

Cause for Their Conduct Found In Fact That They Are Composed of Magnetic Iron Ore. In Nevada there are found "traveling stones” from the size of a pea to six Inches In diameter. When distributed upon a floor or other level surface within two or three feet of one another, they immediately begin to travel toward a common center and there lie huddled like a clutch of eggs In a nest. A single stone, removed to a distance of three and a half 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 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 of the strange conduct of these stones is doubtless to be found in the material of which they are composed, which appears to be lodestone or magnetic Iron ore.