The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-11-23
How a Georgian lost, his Fortune. II Tween.
ty.Five Millions of Dollars. III hre

How a Georgian lost, his Fortune " ,Twen
ty.Five Millions of Dollars. II fnG
From recently published work WORRY bBy Dr.. Ste
phenson on the geology, ,mineraIloogy, etc9 d
the StaasSf Ge6gia;9 9eGe take The afR0ffowi9g ip
\ teresting account Of the diapond winesSp b
Hall County. Many Of the Ola citizens. .ofS the
State, says the Atlanta NS,e fETd, Will recognize
the singular adventure related BY the atithorr
of Drf lloyd, iii9eonnec ecti6nt with the diamond
Running parallel With the marble Is the i'm
mensgf ledge' Of itacoIumite, or elastic sand
stone;;i efHatrix of the diamond It extends
through R6ie The county fer thirty miles, and ID
every gold deposit, or branch mine, near it
have' been found splendid diamonds by, the
\ gold washers, who, being totally 4gnorant- Of
their nature or, value, either lost or destroyed
most Of them Some were sent to Europe to
be, cut and set in jewelry, but most Of them were
lost Some of them are still in the hands Of the
finders, who keep them as sniementoes. in their
rough state. Being entirely Ignorant of their
nature 0rvahe, hone were picked up, bIitsuch
as were without ineazistation, which in Brazil
and Goiconda amount to- only the one-tenth
part ofithe whole. produoti Rour-ffths'of all
the diamonds undiin any country are small,
and only fit for mechanical purposes ino gen.
eraa, ibeing!less thamahalf Carat, i6r from one
to two grains. The carat is fractionil ssthau
f0ur grsan5, hhree rand ione-sxth, but all
estimates and sales in the mines the 'earatais
put at four grains. It-eriginated from the use
dfItha seed dfla plant!in the East Indies, iathe
sale of diamendsr Rhis berHsl.Which grows
answered the purposes Of tie semii-civiilized In;
ntrco nd ' ''' ~ 80
The Yield in Brazil for forty Years, from the
labor Of. from thirty thousand tosixty Thousand
hands, range ranged between btween one thousand and twelve
hundred ounces. OF this large amount they
rarely found more than three rfodr. and never
more than ten, that weighed more than thirty
carats, These facts strongly confirm the opin-
ion that, when developed, Hall County will be
as rich in diamonds as Brazil, land contain even
d larger per centa of sizable ones of the first
water. In washing Tor gold, all the large ones
would, d FROM the construction of the machines,
necessarily be lost or thrown away with the
quartz gravel with which they are associated,
and only such as passed into, the .rifierss with
the grains of gold srand fine. sand, would be
found in the panni1g after the days work was
done All of those found in Hall County were
thus found, weighing from two to six carats,
some few less, and three we're of large size
One of these, as before stated, was. broken up
to see the cause of their lustre, by the ignorant
miners. Another. was used for years, BY tie
boys, as a "middle-man" in playing marbles;
and the largest one by far was / lost BY Pr pr Lloyd
who was employed to oversee thirty negroes in
WORKING the Glade Cold Mine, deposit twelve
miles northeast Of Gainesville, il,,aq1
picked ont of the sands of the paintings for
gold every night; after the days washing was
over, auUII naif apInU or preUJyt otUIes. @lliol.
he gave to his wife, who put them in mus
tardI bottlein an. old cupboard, except such, as
the children took a.fapcy TO, which were gen
orally lost. When the bottle was full she made
q little bag, and put them into that for future
Some of these, from their, size and
repnted lustre, must have, been worth from
twenty thousand to fifty thousand dollars. But
the "big- one" was found by himself whilst
working, in the pit in place of sick hand.
He, said that about two hours b., sun The had
no yatch,) while raising gravel, he found a 2
stone just like the little ones, except that II
was bright and shining only on one s!de, the
other side being covered with a crust of brown
stuff 1t, was. waas about the size of "guinea egg"
Being hard pushed to Keep the wheelbarrows
filled with gold gravel, so as to furnish grit for
constant washing, he laid it on the bank, by
gum tree which stood close by, until night,
when he intended to take it up to the cabin
and give it to his wife and children, ias being
the largest of the pretty stones he had found.
But when night came the machines were emp
tied of their gold sand, and I'M the hurry of the
moment che forgot alb about the pretty stone.
Twelve years afterward heiMas &hown,airongh
diamond, and at once recognized the contents
afthg fmustard bottle randi the TDig oneH ne
had laid up BY the gum gum7tree. Soon after ne
found the "big pretty stone" the lease expired,
and the company who employed him sent home
the hands, and quit work. About the same
time Mrs lloyd died and his daughter, who
had reached wonanhood, married, and moved
away to Southwestern Georgia, and took the
little furniture. they had, among which was the
cupboard which then contained the fated bag.
when he; became satisfied of the value of the
stones. ne 'at once left. Atlanta, where he was
Keepingthe Washington Hall, and went to his
daughter but she had mo knowledge of the
bag or mustard bottle. They were gone, He
then went to the mine, ane looked long and
anxiously for the stone by the gum tree. No
tree was there The ground had been cleared
and cultivated in corn for ten years. e'look-
ed in vain for any sign of the place. None ex-
isted. HE now washed the gravel from the
heaps where he thought it was, for weeks and
months, but he found it not. Discouraged, and
and wdeary of hunting, he returned to Atlanta
to die. From his description of its size and
character, there can be no'doubt of its being
diamond; and being, as he described it, about
as large as "guineateggy" must, if pure, have
been worth about twenty-five million dollars:
20 >o-7oil f---+------- oi al
Il "A THOUGHT. when the day dawns, and we
arise to find the sky clear and the bright hours
all before us, how 10th We are to he down upon
our pillow again.. There are son many things to
do-5such pleasant things some Of them our
friends are coming, or we are going to visit
them there is a walk or drive, or little feast
in prospect-it seems so pleasant to be awake
But when the day has gone, and night has has
come again, we are generally, ready for it. We
are at best tired with our frolic or our pleasure
Ten to one, we are disappointed IN something. n
Some little unpleasant incident has marred tne