Eureka Reporter | 1903-05-15 | Page 6 | An "Imported" Diamond

an I 1 imported I 1 diamond the finest diamond ever imported paid no duty to the customs officers having smuggled itself in from some other planet in a meteorite packed in a thick envelope of mete meteoric orle iron it tell fell to earth in diablo canyon at the toot foot of crater mountain arizona its coating being broken into numer ous particles by contact with the 41 rock formation of the ground some six weeks ago a party of geologists discovering those these fragments at first thought them indications of a re marh mar kably ably pure vein of iron ore but their true character was soon discern ed and in one of ot the pieces picked o 0 prof G A koenig the diamond 4 was found imbesi ii ed it Is now on exhibition at the american mu seum of history