The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-02
Geological specimens.

friend Wilson D. Schooley, has slowed
away in his room on North Fifth ct,
which he has gathered from almost |
every quarter of the habitable globe.
Fine marble from the Parian noun
tains, that divides Spain fronm France;
MOSES from California and South
America, and thirty eight varieties of
the fern, from the carboniferous age,
most beautiful and perfect, from a
half inch to twenty-six inches in
length and twelve inches in width.
He has two varieties OF Algee or Flu
colds the best specimens we have
ever seen; and also great variety of
other fossaliferous vegetables, long
since passed away, some of which are
very rare. He has the best specimens
of Septarea, that the country affords,
all of which he has exhumed from the
tomb where old time had buried
them
CHOICE CoRAL.-Eyery variety of
the coral found in this country, and
some from afar, are in his collection.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL. - Shells from
China and other foreign countries,
and many varieties from our own
country, are scattered around his
sanctum. His Euchrornites which
are. many of them. very fine, are from
this State and Ohio. Slabs, with
them on, named after one of our ply
sicians. of this city.
Trilobites from the upper and lower
silurian formation, very perfect, are
here slowed away.
Mr.. Schooley's geological specimens
are worth the critical examination of
every lover and student of geology,
and he takes great pleasure in exhib-
iting them By his own indefatigable
efforts, has he gathered up these rare,
valuable and beautiful specimens, not
having been blessed with this worlds
goods to enable him to purchase but
few of them. or to travel much in or
der to gather these rich treasures of
| nature.
Mr.. Schooley contemplates soon to
60 South, to look for the ITAcoLU-
MITE and minerals of all sorts, and he
will be the man to End them, if he can
get where they are; for he is emphat-
Tally one of the best and most perse.
vering fossel-hunters in this or any
other region.
Mr.. Schooley, having opened cor
respondence with DR.. Stephenson, of
Atlanta, Georgia, furnishes us with
the following reference made by him
in regard to the mineral wealth of
Northern Georgia:
According to DR.. M. F. Stephenson
of Atlanta, Georgia, who has publish
ed a little volume on the geology and
mineralogy of that State, its mineral
wealth, as yet only partially developed,
is not to be compared with its future
in the production of jewels, particu-
larry diamonds. In the great belt of
its plutonic and metamorphic forma-
ton, extending in diagonal line
through Middle Georgia to the line
of its limestone formation in North
western Georgia, are found FIVE dis
tinct outcropings Ut inacolumite or
elastic sand stone, the matrix of the
diamond. In each of these lodges dia-
monds of greater or less value, accord
ing to DR.. Stephenson, have been
found.
| The most extensive of these lodges
is in Hall County, in upper northern
Georgia, in belt about thirty miles
wide, running diagonally north east
and south west about seventy miles
In every gold deposit or branch mine
that has been worked in Hall County
| splendid diamonds have been found
| by the gold washers, who, being igno.
rant of their value, have lost or thrown
them away. A few of them have beer
sent to Europe to be cut and set, but
most of them have been lost. None
were picked up except those withou,
incrustation, and it is we'll known il
Brazil that only one tenth of the dia
monds there are without incrustation
In washing for gold, all the large dia
monds would necessarily be lost on &C
count o. the construction of the ma
chimes, or thrown away with tn,
quartz gravel. Only such as passed
into the rifflers with the grains of gol,
and fine sand were found in the pan
nings after the days work was finished
All those picked up in Hall Count,
were found in this manner. Most 0
them weighed from two to six carats
! According to DR.. Stephenson, it i
established beyond question that dia
monds of great value have been fount
in Hall County, and that il require
only judicious outlay of capital an,
labor to develope diamond beds il
that country, and perhaps in othe
parts Of the State, as rich as the dia
mond fields of Brazil or South Africa
He tells us that some others ar
preparing to go with him, who ar
able to furnish the 'needful," and W
venture the opinion, if means can b
had, that Schooley will be the mai
who will strike oil, or that whicl
is far better. We wish him the mos
abundant realization of his fondes
hopes in developing the geological re
sources of our country, as well as de
, welcoming his own necuniary rasouroa