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Show STRUCK IT Ht'GE. Somo captious individuils might coDsidcr the pq! joined scarcely a local topic, but if diamonds, diamond fields, diamond diggings, and everything pertaining per-taining to diamonds has not become a local subject in Salt Lake, what has ? Here is the startling news, however, as received from Santa Fe, in a special dispatch, by the Denver "Tribune," and onder date of the 13th inst ; Mr. C. R. Stanton, of California, arrived in this city yesterday from the New Mexico and Arizona diamond fields with a very fine collection of stones. ' Among them is one stone, pronounced pro-nounced by those who profess to be judges, and which has stood all the tests brought to bear upon it,"a ruby," weighing sixteen carats. Parties here from New York, familiar fami-liar with "cutting," say the "stone" will not lose five carats in cutting. - Its value by these parties is to-day placed at $250000. Mr. Stanton has, he thinks, many "stones" of immense value, and some diamonds. This intelligence has created more excitement here than anything heretofore hereto-fore from the diamond fields. The ruby referred to is very brilliant, even in its rough state. Mr. Stanton is on his way to San ', Francisco. Just hold breath for a second or two and take it all fairly in. Golconda is nowhere; the South African "diggins" are lost sight of; and we have next door to us wealth beside which that of tho Indies ia comparatively nothing. However, don't all rush off at once to "the New Mexioo and Arizona diamond dia-mond fields." |