Emery County Progress | 1907-01-19 | Page 4 | Yankee in Diamond Fields

YANKEE IN DIAMOND FIELDS commiss one to study a country which produces such men mr alfred mosely Is an englishman who admires american ways so much that he sends commissions here to study us mr mosely does not admire us without a reason it Is not a very specific reason its name is mr card ner F williams and it is by way of being an american mining engineer mr williams directs the diamond out put of the world mr mosely made his fortune in south africa lie watched cecil Rhodes dream of empire develop and knew the men who made it real the one who took his imagination was gardner williams here was a man who had left michigan at the age of 15 to go with a pioneering father to california in the flush days of the early mining camps had had a taste of california mining had gone when still a young man to explore in south africa and had become a general manager of the great monopoly of the diamond mines A fighter of financial battles and a manager of men a writer a scientist and one of the world s greatest en ginders he so stamped his perso nall ty on the people among whom ha lived that he was feted and cheered by all donth sonth africa when he retired last spring and came back to the united states to build a home tor his leisure years in the land of his birth worlds work