Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-22 | Page 8 | Turquoise Find by Mrs. Clement

TURQUOISE FIND BY MRS. CLEMENT Special to The Tribune. CITY OP MEXICO, May 21. Tho cu-Hl cu-Hl rlosity of Mrs. Victor M. Clement or Salt Lake City resulted in the discovery of the only turquolso mfuo In Mexico. The mine is located ,ln the Santa Rosa district of tho Stalo of Zacatecns. near tho town of Bonanza, and Mrs. Clement is one of the' ownsrs. V. D. Williamson of New Tork, who for several yours was associated with the lato Victor M. Clcm-LL Clcm-LL ent In mining enterprises in Mexico, told LwM tho story of tho discovery at the Iturbldo hotel here. Ho said; kwm "At tho time of tho turquoise dlacov- cry Mrs. Clement was living at Bonanza. Her curiosity was a Joke among tho peo-kwm peo-kwm pie at tho sllvcr-lcnd mine wo were then kwm -working, as una was In tho habit of prowling about the dump, picking up kwm pieces of oro and claiming that they LwM wore all sorts of wonderful things. Ono kwm Oay about thirteen months ago, she went to the dump as usunl and picked up a pretty light bluo stone, which was very hard and shiny. Slio took it homo and , compared It with a piece of turquoise sho kwm had secured in the States, and Inime-LwM Inime-LwM dlatcly decided that her new find was turquoise. We laughed at her, but sho ivac so persistent that we finally rent the speolmen to this city and had It anal-yzod. anal-yzod. Tho report came back that It was pure phosphate of aluminum, or tur-quolse. tur-quolse. "Turquois'e fever broko out at once and other samples were secured and sent In for analysis. Tho report in each instance "was tho same. At present the property is being worked solely for turquoise. The Rtonca are very rich In color and are much harder than iho Oriental turquolso. They have stood the color test six months without fading." 1 Up to this time tho Zacatccas stones Hl havo not been placed on the market, but 1 a number have been forwarded to Tlf-fany Tlf-fany of New York. Several cutters arc j now employed at the mine and shipments Hj will be commenced within a short time.