Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-07-18 | Page 4 | Garden Diamond Thick, Say U. S. Geological Heads

GARDEN DIAMOND J THICK SAY U. U S. S GEOLOGICAL HEM International News Mlee I 17 Get Got out tl old spade and start digging in t til tl back yard ard I of ot the United States ge gel l logical pi l survey urvey have haye aye reported that l their opinion t there thera er are er r mines somewhere In the thc United S State With lUo O o South African mines Ines on t th tI 3 L me lone worm is 18 in or 01 ne bonanza diamond fields to supply t demands of an enormous market Five Fhe thousand diamonds Have b be t mined in Arkansas since 1906 ran ranIng ranIng Ing from 1 64 to 16 carats One One 16 carats was found foun there in inu 1918 u Tho first diamond was found In tb Ui United States Slates in 1837 In In Indiana ah an ah cut to 2 carats More lore than diamonds hn have e been found in India since A diamond of or 23 carats carata was fou fouin fou fouIn In 1885 by a laborer digging a a. cell Ir In Iri Manchester Va One Oneo o of 4 H car carat f was found fourd in North orth Carolina A dia diamond mond of ot n 21 carats was found In Wi Wi In 1886 and another of ot 1 carats tow in the thc J J. J Pierpont M Mor j gan an collection t two Twenty o diamonds one w wIng wel h Ing 75 n carats were iere ere turned up bY farmers farmer's f plow in Illinois in E. E