Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1949 — Page 16

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Almost Inexhaustible Store of Diamonds Reported in Western Section of Country

By GEORGE WELLER, Times Foreign Co!

DAR-ES-SALAAM, Tanganyika, Nov, 24—Britain’s hold on this and 2 for the annual clinic and German colony is being sealed with a diamond ring.

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"The treasure in diamonds found here by a Canadian prospector ai it Mkely that Britain's control of Tanganyika will

| Labrador iron discoveries are to | steel, Just as the Labrador will {replace the outworked Mesabe range of Minnesota, . Tanganyika {will provide an almost inexhausti{ble store to replace the South | African mines. i Velvet-Gloved Tilt | Already a velvet-gloved strug{gle Is going on between Dr. John T. Willlamson, the 42-year-old Canadian bachelor who developed the Tanganyika mine, and his {former employers, the big De | Beers combine in South Africa. | Dr. Willlamson was too smart to accept either the De Beers! = {offer of $5 million for his dis-|In covery, or the combine’s subseuent raise to $20 million. Having failed to buy William{son out, the De Beers people have {tied up the cool, temperate Canadian with a contract to keep him {from flooding the world with didimonds thus driving down the price, Under this agreement the Bouth African monopolists give Dr, Wil-

of the ration of diamonds on which they keep the world. He agrees to sell only through them for four years, Dr. Williamson has 600 acres of diamond-bearing “pipe,” as the gem-hun call their veins, at Mwadul, ° (western T {first three months of this year he {sold just under $2 million worth of diamonds, which was 7.2 per |cent of the world sale. | $54,000 Ring Gift The De Beers interest in South | Africa have only 79 acres of dia{mond land, but they own the marketing machinery of the world. Dr. Williamson, however, felt sure enough of where he stood to

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| stronger as that of the United Nations grows weaker, In the diamond world the Tanganyika discoveries are what the!

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150 years. Only about 3 per cent has been mined. His diamonds are mostly gem {stones, only 40 per cent being so {small as to compel industrial use, |Last year they averaged 35 to 3%! of a carat, with 295 stones weigh-| ing more than 10 carats. With their left arms sheathed slings, the native sorters em-| ployed by Dr, Williamson have little chance at theft. Watchmen pace back and forth behind them. X-rays peer at their stomachs, watching for swallowed gems.

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