Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1892 — A Diamond Hole. [ARTICLE]

A Diamond Hole.

The diamond is a brilliant thing, but the place it comes from is dismal enough. A traveler recently from South Africa gives an account of the crowds of the diamond seekers who poured in after the first discovery. The mine is situated in the midst of a plateau, high, wide, and barren, and consists of nothing more than “an enormous hole nine acres in extent.” This hole is about four hundred feet deep, and visitors seldom descend into it on account of the dirt and danger. It is from this disagreeable aperture that the gems are brought which glitter and sparkle upon the persons of lovely women. It is doubtless nice to own a #40,000 horse—until it drops dead, as one did in Kentucky.