The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-11-27
The NEW DAILY APPEAL.
CARSON ..,wEDDEsDaY, NOV. 81.
PRECIOUS STONES IN SAN FRAN
CISCO.
Arc the Brillianrs Of Arizena the jew
els They arc Represented to He:

els They arc Represented to he.
When Bill Lent and Impending and
their sharpassociates got up that diamond
excitement in San Francisco last Summer
they surrounded their transactions with
such an atmosphere Of suspicion as to
excite a very general sense of Incredibly
regarding their representations. Those
Who took IL look at their quart or two OF
diamonds, amethysts and other precious
gems didn't fail to notice that none but
some very small ones had been through
the hands of the lapidary: that certain
sharp fellows who were pointed out as
diamond experts were rather too constant
in their assertions of the genuineness Vi
the paraded stones and were needlessly
conspicuous in and about the exhibition
room. Moreover. suspicious people said
to themselves, 'How does it happen that
Lent and Company are SO anxious to
turn those diamond fields of theirs over
to joint stock company-why do they
want to dispose of any stock when, as
they assert, these diamonds and rubies
and amethysts are to be had for the dig
ging?" And they asked, moreover,
''What do these well known stock job5ers
mean by giving out to the public that
they own IA large tract of land where these
real or imaginary diamond fields exist,
when the fact is we'll known that they
have NO such ownership in the lands of
Arizona?" These we're hard nuts to
crack-rery pertinent and stunning pos
ers; and yet the evidence seemsto be con-
stantly accommodating that they told some
thing very like true story-althoush
they did pretty nearly smother their lit
tie leaven of ver..city in a monstrous and
superfuous mass of wholly gratuitous
improbabiities. This only illustrates
the possible inconvenience of being need
lessly and supplementary sharp. They
overplayed their hands; and but for the
apparent grain of honest and unadulter-
ated evidence put in. in their behalf, by
good old Mother Earth. they would have
been popularity regarded as having I'M
necessarily and vantonly lied about q
matter. the plain truth concerning which
would have been vastly better and more
to their purpose.
We have been led into saying all this |
just by way of preface to what follows:
The San Francisco Alta of the 18th
inst, after narrating the interview Of its
reporter with Mr.. A. C. Stanton, . gen
ueman who left that city three months
since for the said diamond fields, and
Who has just returned there With q car
pet bag full of diamonds and rubies. sap
phires and opals and other precious
stones, has recourse to the Denver Neps.
q copy of which would seem to have
been brought along by the fortunate
Stanton) which paper favors n curious
and inquisitire world with the subjoined:
Deseriressn - the Rahy.
This stone-vhich Mr.. Stanton a6arms. upon
the strength Of some other PERSONS judgment.
voEth snly SssoOOo-vas found somcvhere in
Arisnna. beyond Fort Defiance. and vas picked
mp on the surface of the ground. 1t has . deep.
rich vine eols. md lools, to the inexperienced
eye, At least, just like the quarts Of small
garnets which have been paraded on exhibition
haze for several months BY each returned dis-
mond digger. |,
Having found this stone and many bushels Of
smaller ones. Mr.. Stanton returned to Santa Fe.
where he was met by Mr.. A. z. Higgins. who
rspresents himself to be the agent Of all precious
usone dealers in New York city. This man saw I
Ihe Stone and became excited The next day he I
rxamined it again and grew frrnzisd with in I
.erest in the ruby. The day following he vas
pssfsctly frantic with excitement. and yet every-
pody in santa Fee wild ON the subject. Other
.expesieDeed judgs'' were called in. and il vas
,nslly determined that the ruby-the largest in
he vorsd-vuuld bring the sung SUM of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Ii
The fortunate owner was of course elated. and !:
Ne etsrted pOst-hsste fog civilization. bearing
.ttex from M. Huggins to Nj. Benedict. . New
fork ieveler, which guaranteed the payment a |
quarter Of a million for the stone This ruby.
I ruby i, is, is about three quarters Of an inch
N length, by half an inch in With. and Ii said
10 weigh sixteen car.ts. Il vii eut - shout
,,even carats. having . slight cav
Having examined the ruby to his entire ssf1s-
lection. the Ne,Cs reporter was startled By the
Inhibition Il . diamond about the size OF