Show THE fielda rig ll allor ar room from the h nall fhe salt lirly nothing lell left lint a few nil garniel Gar nirl froni the S F chronicle A trian man named william D brown of cf this otty waa was recently sent by bya a number of ol 01 capita capitalists listi on a trip to arnolds Arn olila salted diamond fields in rido radd lie on sundy night bight bringing with him several hundred stones kinds bat none of tny any showing that tha t the silt has ha b been eon pretty well up among the stones found are several small india ru rubic bilie i lot of garnets and a lew few arnall amill diamondi some of the be litter latter mr mit bre brown awn recognized im rele nie diat dia cly tely as south africa and rio rini janeiro diamondi ile iio found arter alter a practical examination that the stones norre corresponded Spon ded with such gems as lire are sold bold by the quirt in rio janeiro and at the cape of good hope at from 81 to 1200 ft a quart burt Oller frs ars salt HuDi lere i while at arnolds Arnold 3 salt fields celda mr brown met a party of eight men from colorado san francisco and the extern eastern states who were on tho the sumo same errand As himself they had bad picked up quite a quantity of stones clones tut but like himself had only done so BO after much surface digging a and washing there thild dit is 18 but ai little LID a 01 fait ol I 1 left eft and about to go on the se arch would do well to bar stat in mind mr brown undo made some other ia in te resting discoveries which in conversation with a reporter yesterday he related as fello follow wv 11 in order to obeal i a correct idea of the geologic geological al il of the ibe surrounding 0 country I 1 extended my ex 1 arai nati south vest and cast over u I 1 irge portion til territory which I 1 found fouad to be a a lindstone aind atone formation kiili ith very little volcanic it contains an abundance of coal and iron I 1 showing strong evidences evide of bouce beio being the bed of an ica mense current when involved in witter water tile diorec i i tion of the current was from north to south extending tight light or hundred bundred wiles in the ilia bove above direction nod aad a bout about four hundred milca in breadth I 1 camo came to the conclusion this was evidently the iho cause of depositing the immense parallel reefs of sandstone formation format ioa and coal A I 03 riff bell at al the elevation of feet above the sea I 1 discovered an imm immense ease bed of oyster fossil which was evidently at remote period a large oye ter ler shoal at a rough guess there must bo be at least a too tons of oyster fossil in that section of ten acres acree I 1 ako jound found a largo quantity of petrified bones abnes both human and animal with petrified ancient vegetables such as 39 turnips water creases cr esses Es sagebrush ebrus li prickly pears toadstools toad stools and a large quantity of vartoui kinds from the formation of the country I 1 do not think that any gold or silver can exist in that locality 1 baat as t of the boe 60 allej diamond fields are ara the great sierra madro madre mountains which abound in slate elate granite quartz and porphyry carrying gold silver and precious stones mr brown tavi that about two acres of the be a ground round was salted baited outside of that not even a garnet is to be bc found |