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Show Diamonds. A very excited condition condi-tion of the diamond status developed itself yesterday afternoon. Indeed, we overheard one bluff bet of 810,000 mado to silcDce a certain journalistic sufferer. Our readers will remember our calling attention to Mr. J. F. Berry's samples of precious stones, and the hope wo expressed that the field of discovery might be io tho neighborhood neighbor-hood rcpoitcd upon by the corps of Denver engineers to whom wc some-timo some-timo since devoted a little space. 1 Yesterday the stones exhibited by Mr. Berry were subjected to an cxamina-1 cxamina-1 tion by a Now York lapidary, stopping 1 in Salt Lake, and were pronounced genuino diamonds. Mr. Berry offers 1 to bet $10,000 that the stones are ' diamonds, and he further declares that they wcro found by him in western Colorado. There aro in all twenty-six twenty-six of these stones, one of them which weighs three carats. Mr. Berry declares de-clares bis readiness to pilot a party to the locality at once, and to stako everything every-thing upon tho result. Ho Bays it ia where Henry Janin, of San Francisco, went, and that the latter's report is true. A number of leading capitalists ' are alroady forming a company with proposed stock of $2,000,000. |