Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1920 — START DIGGING, MAYBE YOU’LL FIND A FEW [ARTICLE]

START DIGGING, MAYBE YOU’LL FIND A FEW

Get out the old spade and start digging in the back yard! Geologists of the U. S. Geological Survey have reported than in their opinion there are undiscovered mines somev/here. in the United State?. With the South African mines on the decline, the world is id need of new bonanza diamond fields to supply the demands of an enormous market. ” j Five thousand diamonds have been mined in Arkansas since 1906, ranging from 1-64 to 16 carats. One of 10 carats was found there in 1918. ’ ' • ’ The first diamond was found in the United States in 1887 in Indiana and cut to 2 canftS. More than twenty diamonds have been found in Indiana since. A diamond of 28 3-4 carate was found in 1886 by a laborer digging a cellar in Manchester, Va. One,of 4% carats wasfound in North Carolina. A diamond of 21 3-4 c*r*ta was found in Wisconsin w iU BB6, and another of 16 carats, now m the J. Pierpont Morgan collection. Twenty-two diamonds, one weighing 7% carats, were *7 a farmer’s plow in Illinois- m 1912. Mr^d“toS o™® to “f&.’h.d the mbfortone badly fracture her elbow m a fall Monday. She is getting along nicely now. ,