Show UTAH DIAMOND FIND Verified by Prominent Citizen Citi-zen of Pinto COL FERRIS THE DISCOVERER Sensational Stories on the Bull Mountains I Prospector ReEnters the Field With Cedar City People as His Backers Back-ers Awaiting1 Returns A letter to t The Tribune above the i autograph of one of the most reputable I citizens of Pinto this State Fays that the diamond the real thing has been unearthed In Bull Valley mountains and that the man to utica rtlm It IB none other than John Ferris In earlier days few prospeclois were more prominent In the field than was Colonel John who had won his spurs In the War of the Rebellion and who voted for the martyred Lincoln a privilege that Is I still chcrifiheil by him Mr Ferris was also the discoverer of silver In the sand l reefs oC Leeds a fact that was recorded record-ed in the month of October 1871 and in 1875 located the t famous Buckeye mine out of which a fortune in silver was taken According to the letter from Pinto Uncle John Is now the Bar 111 to of a diamond Held in the western part of Washington county Some three years ago he went to Payson on a visit to friends and carried In his purse a rough crystal that was handed over to a welltodo merchant in that settlement JJy the latter It was forwarded for-warded to a lapidisl in the East 3y him it was returned to the merchant a stone that contained all the luster of a gem of first water For two years according ac-cording to the narrative for which the resident of Pinto vouches the discovery discov-ery was withheld from Col Ferris In Augustlast month however he was put In possession of the facts by Dr E Smith the Cedar City dentist and with the means provided by Dr Smith and Charles S Wilkinson the latter thee the-e l101 of the Cedar City Record the Colonel at 63 years of age went forth 10 clinch his discovery This according to the t letter lo lhe Tribune has now been accomplished and prediction is made that to other booms made possl hie by l the riches with which the State has been endowed will have soon beci added a diamond boom The writer from Pinto will pardon the reading public should he find it offensively skeptical and the boom should be slow In Issuing loin its cocoon but It would like to put its eye on the diamonds before be-fore participating in the rush A car borundum or the Western diamond has long been known and has found a place in the commercial world but Il 1 bus not found its place in miladys car 01 at her I throat |