Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-25 | Page 22 | Gems of New York

Gems o of New NewYork ew York or orM ORE digging has been done on M MORE Manhattan Island than in any other area of or equal size in the world All parts of 01 it were very hilly a century or more ago whereas today the city of New York Is smooth and flat except in Central park pari and the far tar northern portion The hills I hav have e been dug aw away ay and removed Incidental to the tho digging many interesting deposits of minerals have been brought to light including pockets and veins reins of gem stones Thus during the progress of Improvements improvements improvements im Im- ale ig Fourth avenue Inthe in inthe inthe the early tourmalines of great beauty were found At Sixty-fifth Sixty street and the Boulevard were found valuable de deposits deposits deposits de- de posits of oC garnets and the limestone has yielded nests of ot exquisite exquisite exquisite ex ex- ex- ex crystals of smoky quartz have been turned up In numbers In the course of excavating ex- ex excavating ex ex- operations operations' for subways and from Lenox avenue avenue and One OneHundred OneHundred OneHundred Hundred and Nineteenth street for tor several blocks east and north there are pockets of ot garnet crystals s suf large and transparent to t tot of ot prec precious ous quality In a Fifth ave avenue nue Jewelry store some years ears ago TO sear exhibited a a. single crystal of garne weighing weighing- more than nine pound pounds which had been dug on Island I Geologists say that there Is a a. reason reason rea son to believe that Important deposit depos of precious stones of various kinds kind will wll eventually be discovered on the th west side of the city north of On One OneHundred Hundred and Tenth street NOT AMBITIOUS FOR FATHER A ANew Nev England man who had a at various vailous times been a a. candidate fo for tor public office has a small son about six years of age On one occasion occasion this lad who had hai had been bc meditating upon the of oC kingly existence asked his bis mother mothers If the king Icing of ot England should di die who would be king II 1 The Prince of at Wales j 1 If the Prince of Wales should d di diet who would be king r His mother endeavored to explain but the lad with a a. deep breath said sail J JWell JWell Well anyway ay I hope dad won wont won't t for It it 1 I