The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-09-05
Tho Arizona Diamond Fields.

We have reformation rom an independ.
cui source, SO particular and explicit as
hardly to leave donbt Of the true location
Of the diamond fields which have created
so much excitement in this city for tho
PAS, lew days. The diamond mines arc
situated in the sou,hras, corner Of Arao.
na Territory, south Of latitude $40. at o
point near to the boundaries Of New Mex,
30 aud Sonora Anyone BY taking q
uap Of recent date, can readily find tho
oint where the boundary lines Of Arizona
nd New Mexico in,erseGt Mexico on tho
outh The country has silver mines laid
iown. aud Apachcs are desiguated'as 90.
npying tho same district The country
not surveyed Ii is situated at no great
is,ance from the old southern trail cross.
og tue country from Fort Yuma to III
Paso, Its pretty certain that one or mors
artirs are in this city who have brought
up specimens Of rubies from that region.
and whose operations are Independent Of
the diamond advcniurers who first brought
IN diamonds We givctbis information 90
we have received it, We havc not much
reason to doubt but tho true locality bsa
hecn substantially given in this paragraph.
lfthat is the diamond territory. we do not
think half a dozen men will hc able to
sobble itup, or to keer'cverybody else out
of il. But We advise uobpdy to 60 there
The diamond hunters Of South Africa had
hard luck Hardly more than dozen
gained anything at ull adequate Ms com.
pensa'ion for the risks and suileringS en-.
couutcred h any extensive diamond
fields are discovered it will be very dilh.
cult to prevent MS free competition as was
established in South Africa There is not
sufficient evidence within reach to warrant
any one in running off bliudly to this dis.
lautund iuhospipblu'orriory. Diamonds
Arc used Tor cutting diamonds, and just
now very sharp men a'c disposed to try
the cutting Of diamonds on tho public
San Francisco Ballctin
II is ten months sircc tho great fire In
Chicago, by which 05 800 Of her people
were left homeless Of,hcsc IA 600 resi-.
dcd in l3,30O buildings in the North Di.
vision, where 1870 area were burned
over, Dwellings, ior 10000 people have
already been erected IN that Division. In
the South Division, where 8 $50 buildings.
including hotels. theatres, stores, aud
warehouses, were DESTROYED and AGO acres
OF grouud burned over. the ground is near.
" covered, and THO buildings ,gQmplstsl.,
shd~nnss .tndtr rSals dfiS6 SdsS 81 dti6Si Z
those destroyed. and surpass them 10 style
aud solidi'y Twenty six miles Of streets
are thus occupied In tho West Division.
where 5O, buildings were destroyed Tiers
will be erected this season as many build.
ings aud blocks of bricks stone and iron,
as we're built in all Chicago iu any previ-
aus season The removal Of .hc ruins coat
several millions of dollars; hut shout do
zen acres of land have been reclaimed
I'd from the lake, which ia probably worth
as much as the removing of tho immense
mass Of rubbish which forms it. This is
not The only result Of the ruins. The
grades Of the low streets have been raised
by the material. while all the stones and
brick that could be used have been built
into new STRUCTURES. The Times Of tina.
city SAYS: "Rb the 9th Of October, tho
anniversary y the great disaster there
viii be something to show the world; not q
nation horn in day, but a stupendous
city raised out Of its own ruins in year.
Chicago viii be the newest city 10 tho
world; an example Of what tho iniensest
energy. aided by the best labor.saving
machinery. and one hundred thousand hu.
man hands, can do in single season."
The ludicrous fabricaticbs which the
Rndicnl press now vent upon their lato
lavori'e Horace Greeley, are thus wittily
buresqued 10 the New York Tribune,
which says
Now then, We beg the Republican par.
" tn observe wat a scaudaous old repro
bate they have all t'ese years been nomi.
ualing for public Office aud trusting as q
popular leader. This Greeley is the came
miscrcant who attempted to burn New
York, blow up the Cro.on acqueduct, pay
the Confederate debt. pension the rebel
solci ciers. make jeff Davis President and
Louis Napoleon Emperor; at The same
time poison all the wells within the line Of
the Army Of the Potomac, and infect the
the Northern ports. with yellow fever -.
lie was perpnlually engaged in trcasona.
bic correspondence with the South, and
was an accomplcc iu the assassination Of
President Lincoln. He committed the
Ku Klux outrngcs in nearly all the South.