Show SAPPHIRE HUN ring IN SIAM VALUABLE PRIZES SECURED IN A nea iset REGION riah precious GRAIS gama sometime some time ao ago a native hunter in ia siam found aa sapphires sapp hires I 1 in n a remote and secluded district some men who were let into the secret followed kin kini i into the mines and brought back to rangoon and calcutta a number of very valuable stones A adum ruth rut h an from british Bur burniac niah sale the jewelry news thousands of adventurers flocking to the mines some to find sudden fortune but more to loe lo e their lives from privation and jungle fever faver the mines are ale located iu in the proy provinces inGes ot Bat and in 11 ij liis commercial report tae le ariti tili h consul at Ba baukov ab blat av 1 winerd uncut alit an very careful to conceal their gems while in siam anxious to show some of th the gems gema to the english admiral thu taj consul called for specimens from miners minera who ball bal just bat I 1 le turned from the dig diggings didgs une ole I 1 mant r a poorly clail clad a and ii miserable looking fellow produced a few small stones and after after a preat great deal of coaxing was induced with marly many precautions to give a private his great prize which was a large sapphire in the ro rough u li valued at 10 he would probably not have the stone at all had he not been on the point of leaving in a steamer owing to the secrecy thus observed by the possessors of valuable gems it is impossible to give any estimate of the total value of the stones found but that individuals have made large L profits is certain one man dug out a stone which he offered for sale at Chaut boon aboon for ifopo but did not cot find a purchaser he went with it to ran kan goon w where here he ae was offered but having awakened to the value of the stone he declined to sell and took it to calcutta where he eventually obtained for it now however there are many experienced gem merchants established in the neighborhood of the mines I 1 and something like the real wine value of the slone can be obtained d by bv the miners on the spot the largest sipp sapphire hire hitherto found so far as the consul knows weighed carats barats in tue the coughl roughs and when cut turned out ill barats carats of the finest water the ruby onyx and add jade are found in the district apt the quality of none of them is such as to make them very valuable |