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Show to lie ordinurv garnets, and tin' j carat diamond a piece of quail.. fV'l of the sailing h id been done with !V large quantity of rough diamond bought by an unnamed American in London. ' The swindlers made by their venlnre JT.VUHHl. the greater part of which was contributed by California capitalists. Of corundum.' the mineral which, in some of its varieties lears (the names ruby, sapphire, Oriental amethyst. Oriental emerald and Oriental Ori-ental topaz, we have mime specimens hut the country is not rich in stones of this order. The North Carolina corundum cor-undum excels in variety of color. Many specimens have been cut and mounted, especially of the blue and red shades, and make good gems, though not of the choicer quality. Tim chief locality for gem sapphire in the 1'nitcd States' is near Helena. Mont., whew they occur as loose cry.-tals. usually small, but often Iran-parent and of good color. Turquoise we get from New Mexico. Arizona, Nevada, Colorado Color-ado and California. Domestic liein. ami l'reciout Ntoiiet. New Yorh Hull. While it is a fad that nearly all the ,,,-ecious stones are to be found in the bnited States, the deposit of the most varieties, so far as we know, are too meatre to warrant the application of capital ami systematic labor to their irodnction. In two states only, Mam.: ami North Carolina, has a systcma tic search for g-ms been enrned on. (if di monds. fefor instance. M per .cut of the current supply comes from the Kiniberly mines of south Africa. (et nine tons of diamonds, valued after c iltiiiK at $000,000,000 have been taken from those mines since their discovery , IB07. The s uith African mines ure ' I (.0tai-.eil within a radius of a mile . ..1 i k f The I'.'po t iscoiicentrated r is working proiiUble Since lira-, lira-, India ami Borneo are to be included a iong the contributors of the remain-1 remain-1 5 per cent, of the world s diamond mi, 1 v. it will be seen that the share of ti e toiled State as a producer is j aidlv recognizable. A few years ago . lively hope was s.arled of the j existence of diamond fields in Ken-1 t.ickv. It was based upon a stnk'ug re-s re-s mbhnce between certain earthy in Kentucky and those 'it the t'imbeiiy mines. I heo-i-eiicallv there i strong reason to . cve h. a Kentucky diamond bed. but the theory has not yd developed into l et -"-.s reason I ul a more brilliant plausibility was given to the promise of I diamond mine in Arizona twenty vears ago. preM-ntatious were made in San Irancisco of .he discovery dis-covery of an innoci. treasure of diamond's dia-mond's ami rubies in ojie of the neigh-boring neigh-boring leiril.-ries. In cnlirma ion there wen- exhibited -"-called ruble, 1 Lnmiiniiii" to so.OOO cainl". and iiuinrr t. Smds.,nrf1!Vara.- The stones were depoMte.l in tb- Hank of California, and the news preal the continent. ( apitahsis t-!;",me t-!;",me intere,ted. A bill in th" interest I of diamond miners was passed in con press A great cmbinalioil party from ' The east and the wot went l;rosH-cting. ' Thev cai-ried al-ug an exi;rt from the ro al sch.M.1 of mines, in Irc.burg. They found the promised spot. Kvery-W Kvery-W picked up ge.... In a week the pVyWuredliHiOcarals "f diamond. Ihta Mr. Clar-nc King, director r-f ,tle I'niteit State geof,.(r.el orvey. went nnt and jdovmI thai the mine had jlH-en -suited.' Th-rnbies were .hou |