Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1950 — Page 45

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Ore First Believed Part of Meteor

Twelve.yearoid Jerry Aldrich has climaxed years of by tn 8. an iron mine on his family’s farm. But there won't be a fortune in it.

timonite. It contains only about 30 per cent metallic iron. And that isn’t enough to be of commercial

But the money is unimportant to Jerry anyway. He hunts out the earth's secrets for the fun

Jerry is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Aldrich, who farm 10 acres west of Glenns Valley, southwest of Indianapolis. It's a part-time job for Mr. Aldrich, who is assistant boiler room foreman in the g Street plant of the Indiana Power and Light a Co “rocks has always

Includes Arrowheads Digging Into the gravel pit a few hundreds yards from his home, the quiet youth has gathered an interesting collection of fossils. To these .are added a couple of glass jars of arrowv'eads picked up along a nearby creek. . . He ran onto his iron mine last

He was searching for a good place to plant his 4-H Club gar-~ den. He takes the gardening seriously, and won second prize for his vegetables this fall at the Marion County 4-H Club Fair, While digging, he uncovered a rock of peculiar formation, Honeycombed and laced like a ball of twine attacked by a

a man's first. He took it to the house and added it to his collection. / Really Started to Dig This fall, while digging sweet potatoes, Jerry’s father found more of the rock. Then Jerry and his mother really started to dig. A couple of bushels of the rocks accumulated behind the garage.

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Honor Pupils

Cathedral High School pupils on the high honor roll are as follows;

. 1d Charles Wagner, Ri EL Bate { Moore, Jo! John “Van Slyke dustin Walch, Micha ch 0 Farr River 's, Joseph Swiery nae!

Juniors—Tom "¢ Cortese, Gary Britton,

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His discovery was bog iron, or ;

inds Bog Iron Deposit on Farm | “Jerry Aldiiech ~~ Likes Prospecting

gist, and once gerved with the Indiana Geological Survey, =. He identified the rock as iron, a gift of the Great Glacier which covered Indiana thousands of years ago. There are vast deposits of bog iron in the state, Prof. Moulton says. But its value is impaired by] the low iron content. The Mesabi| Range in Minnesota, the nation's big producer, yields 50 to 70 per| cent of metallic iron. Bog iron’s value is further de-| creased by a high silica content. — Removing the silica is too expen-! » sive a process to permit its use in blast furnaces. | Jerry is disappointed that it] isn't a meteor. These stones from outer space are rare enough to] be the centerpiece of any boy's] cbllection.

Carolyn Aldrich, 11, takes a clogs oor from her brother ! But he'll he glad to ‘know it's Jerry, 12, as he displays his fossil collection. Hioaite, It Will be: semetiing to

They ranged from pebble size to So Mrs. Aldrich called The Indi- [show the other boys at Bluff Ave.| chunks as big as .grapefruit, |anapélis Times for information. school, where he is in the Tth There is a legend in the neigh-! The Times submitted samples Grade. {borhood that a meteor fell there to Prof. Benjamin Moulton, pro-| And it adds io his own fund of | about. seven years ago, The Ald-!fessor of geography -at - Butler knowledge, and that's what he's rich family thought the rocks | University. (after. Jerry is “primarily a Might have e been {1 from the ? meteor. | _ Prot, - Moulton \ also is a _geolo- scientist, not a promoter.

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