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Show this amount, but the fact that they are found at all gives encouragement to the hope that paying fields of them may some time be found. Last year one diamond was found in Lee county, Georgia, where diamonds were not before known to exist. New Mexico furnished $18,000 in turquoises, tur-quoises, and these have been placed on the market. Montana gave us $90,000 in sapphires, which come next. They came from Fergus county. coun-ty. Granite county is now being ex. plored for fancy colored sapphires, that give evidences of being there in paying quantities. Fine and extensive rhodolite garnet deposits are found in Mason county. North Carolina. Many dark green, blue and yellow beryls, as well am amethysts and emeralds, were foumt in that state. There is hardly a state of the union in which there is not some trace of precious stones, and it appears not at all unlikely that before many years we may be competing with the old world in furnishing fur-nishing gems. AMERICAN PRECIOUS STONES. Ilnrdly a te la th I nlom In IVhleh There 1 Not Som Traei of The hi. When we think of the mining of precious stones our thoughts are . quite certain to leap into .South Africa, Af-rica, over to the orient, among the mountains of Asia and Kit rope, or perhaps to South America, but we are not likely to think of our own land yielding them; but the fact is that no insignificant value iu gems is taken from the soil right here at home. The report of the geological survey, just compiled for l'.HU, shows that, during the year we mined in the United States precious stones to the value of about $:00.000, reports the Xew York Herald. ! Diamonds represent only $100 of |