Show DIAMONDS IN TEXAS Finding of Gems on a Ranch Causes Cause Much Excitement Much excitement has been caused among the people of central western Texas over the tho discovery of gems believed believed be be- to be diamonds upon a ra ranch ch 18 miles southwest of Sterling C City ty An account nt of the discovery is given by y F. F Kellis county surveyor of Ster slug ling county He writes mites as as follows About two thirty-two years ago a a well driller encountered a substance that cut his drill bit The well was finished fin finished and the driller drifted away awns wa day a n cowboy picked out of the borings of the well som some pretty rocks lock rocks and and showed them to a n Jeweler bo paid him for one of them them-a them ablack bla black k stone The cowboy some years Int later r met the driller In Seattle Wa Wash h. h They related to each other othar the facts facts- about the find The driller to told d' d the the- story to Chicago parties who came came- here with the driller last winter and und started a prospect shaft following the bore pore of the well The shaft is now v 83 feet deep At the start the forum forma was conglomerate A about 80 0 0 r feet a blue clay dope was in tIl this formation they are t taking out out some beautiful pebbles Some i are black translucent while others are white transparent and very hard |