The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-12-22
From the San Francisco Bulletin, Nov "a.
ARIZONA DIAMONDS.
Have We a Diamond FIELD at Oul
Doors?

| From the San Francisco bulleIln, NOV. "a.
ARIZoNIA DIAMONDS.
Have We a Diamond FIELD at Ou
Doors?
Since the days of the exploration
and conquest of the southern por
! ton of the American continent by
Herman Cortez and his hard-hitting
pious, and plunder-loving followers
the belief that Arizonia-in which
there were then situated, as we now
know, the famous "Kingdom of
Cloola," for which Coronado and De
Soto sought so long from
opposite directions-abounded in
the precious metals and precious
stones has been current. So far as
the precious metals are concerned,
recent explorations and mining op-
erations have abundantly demon
strated the truth of the old tradi-
tlOns, and it is not impossible, we
we might perhaps say not improb-
able, that the deposits of precious
stones, which the Aztees worked
centuries ago, are soon to be found.
1t Is known that the Aztecs occu-
pied Arizonia in early days and that
they assured Cortez and his follow
ers that the precious stones-of
which they had a considerable store
--came from the far north, beyond
the limits of the empire of Montezu-
ma as the Spaniards found it. The
ruins of those cities are scattered
through Central Arizona, and are
outside of the greater ruins running
in semi circle from the vicinity of
Wickenburg on the Hassiyampi, far
to the northward into the country
of the Colorado Chiquito, around
the Black Forest and San Francisco
mountain, and southwestward to the
Fila. East OF the mouth of the Sa-
linaf is found range of minor ruins
on the hill tops near running water,
supposed at first to have been tenn
pies of the sun, but nov admitted to
have been intrenched mining camps,
located in an enemy's country, or in
a country subject from raids of
hostile people-probably the ances-
tors of the sanity and lamb-like
Apache pets of Vincent Collyer Of
the present day. In the vicinity of
many these camps Stag and other
evidences of working for silver and
gold are found, but in others no
traces of the precious metals are
found, and the inference that the
occupants must have been seeking
for something else is quite natural.
One Of these ruins is located on a
bed of lava, which flowed for a hun
dred miles to the southeast from the
now silent orator Of Mount San Fran
cisco, and is twenty miles from wa
ter. The builders Of that camp were
evidently cutting through the lava
and mining for something under
meath it. Years ago Kit Carson's
men, in passing through the Navajo
country in New Mexico, and the
eastern portion Of the never fully
explored country of the Moquis,
found on agravelly plain large guam
titles Of small red stones in the
earth, carried out by the red ants of
the country and carried some of them
away with them. Years after Fred
Henry, well-known Arizonian In
dian fighter and miner, gave num-
Der of these stones to a gentleman
from this city, who had one of them
ground by a lapidary and it proved
to be a genuine ruby, though not
very valuable on account of its dark
color, the lighter hued ones having
the preference in the market. A
very pale emerald found on the
Haslyumpi accompanied the rubies,
and all the stones are now in the
cabinet of Wells Female College,
Auburn, New York. Other rubies
of similar character have been
brought here from time to time by
explorers, and have been seen by
various jewellers in this city. The
diamond is generally found in a
country producing the ruby and en-
erald, and the opinion that it would
soon be discovered in Arizona ap-
pears to have been verified. A
Montgomery street jeweler informs
us that a few months since a party
of explorers in Arizona found among
the ant-hills some bright stones
which took their fancy, and they
brought several of them away. Some
of these stones were scattered around
and lost, and by far the inest-de-
scribed as being of the size of a com
mon chestnut-was placed on an an
vii and smashed into a thousand
pieces as a test of its being a dia-
mond, it being a popular fallaey
that real diamond can not be bro
ken by any metallic or mineral sub
stance less hard than itself. After
this no particular attention was paid
to them, until one which had been
sent to Boston and cut by lapidary,
was returned here certified to be a
brilliant of the purest water of two
carTats weight, and worth from $500
to $400. 1t was here shown to a
Montgomery street jeweler from
whom we have the above particulars.
Upon its being returned here with
the news of its character and value,
the party quietly fitted out for an
other trip, and returned to Arizona.
Nothing has since been heard from
them, but if they do not fall victims
to the relentless-we beg pardon, the
kind gentle and trustworthy Apach-
es, we shall probably in due time
have something more to tell about
their discoveries.
Difference In Women.
TVboro is not hiT,Or moro Distinctive