Show DIAMONDS GROW GROIN IN MUD BUT ARE HARD TO PICK Chances of Find Said to Be Poor Boys Get a Bonus By Edward M M. Thierry N N. N E E. E A A. A Staff Correspondent With Universal Smithsonian Universal African Expedition KIMBERLEY South Africa ca Feb 11 Diamonds Diamonds grow in blue mud They're like raisins in a cake some cake some sometimes times far apart Spectacular r finds have been made But the ch chance nce of ot a lucky find av averages aver aver- rages r- r ages down to a heartbreaking mini mini- mum A native b boy y In September 1917 got a job on the blue ground dump In inthe the Du ToUs Pan mine Four hours after he started started work he found found-a a di dia diamond mond of karats karat worth Superintendent Austin Knight has spent twenty-five twenty years walking over the great drying floors vast fields where short tons pounds of blue ground are spread for fog disintegration purposes purposes and and he has found exactly three diamonds BOYS GET BONUS Native boys who find big pIg stones stone's are paid bonuses a karat and 2 per cent of ot the diamonds diamond's valuation above ten karats Many boys b Ys have worked two weeks and made in bonuses There Is Isa Isa a maximum however on big finds The boy who ho found the karat stone was wag given a saddle a suit of clothes and immediate release from his four months months' working contract This is the finest quality diamond ever found in the DeBeers DeBeers' trusts mines mines' In the Kimberley district I The largest was of karats karate found in June 1896 18 b but t it was an imperfect stone tone 11 FIND IS RECORD The The record record fine was wal the Cullinan I January 26 1905 It weighed karats four Inches high two and a ahalt half halt long and one and a half halt inches wide and was was was' presented to King Edward Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward VII in hi 1907 River diggings also have produced huge gems the largest being the Bob Gove diamond of ot karats It sold I in 1908 for and now is worth I |