The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1874-09-03
IA American CcIcondl.

anu lNlueNipgy OF .tll0J StltC, ltS
mineral wealth, IA vet only partially
developed il not to I've compared with
its future in the production Of Jewels.
particularly diamonds. In the grclt
belt Of its plutonic and mctamorphir
formation. cytcuiing in a diagonal
line through middle Georgia 10 the
line Of its limestone formation in
northwestern Georgia, are found five
distinct outcroppiug' of ilaoolumito
or elastic sandstone. the mutriN OF
the diamond. H. each of these lcdg
cs diamonds Of greater or lcss val
/. lie, according TO DR.. Stephenson.
/ have been found.
| The mos, cNtcnsivo of those lcigcs
is in Hall courty in upper northern
Georgia, in Il belt over thirty miles
wide, running di0gomlly northcst
and southwest about seventy milca
In every gold deposit or branch
mine thai has been worked in Hall
county splendid diamonds have btcn
1 found by the gold washers, who he
. ulp lpupltlll VI tI'll NNlN'' nave loSt
or thrown them away. \ few Of
them have been sent to Europe to
bo cut and set but most of them
have been lost Mono wcro picked
up except those without incrustntion
and it is well known in Brazil that
only ouc.t,uth Of the djumOnls there
Iarr without ircIu5tatiDn. ln wash
INK for gold. n'i ,lr large diWpuls
would necessarily hr iostou account
.ofthc construction of the machines.
or thrown away with tho quart
gravel Only such ~ passed into
the riillcrs with the grains ot gold
and fine sand were found i'll tho pan
umrs after tio days work was fin
ishcd, All those picked mp in Han
county wuo found il this monucr
Most Of them Weighing from two to
siy c,lu,-
! Three very largo ones were found
Tho first was broken to pieces by
I the iguorcul miners to see why it
was so lustrous. Tho second was
used 10y the boys # GAINESVILLE for Il
long time q, tho middle man in play
'lu& marblos, But the largest by fur,
ms large aa guinea egg, and partly
0cncrustcd, was lost soon after it was
found by Dr.. Lloyd, the. .ycrscor of
( the Gildo Gold Mine, Il deposit about
twelve miles nor,hoast Of GAINESVILLE
This wal ten or twelve years before
/ the war.
/ In the four years Of DIR. Lloya'a
Iovorsocrship of this gold mine, he
)Dr. LoydJ picked ont of the sands
oi tho punning every night after Tie
day = washiugs about half pint Of
pretty shining stones, which ho gave
10 his wife. Some of these the chill
dren took fancy to for plnythings,
and they Of course Wore lost Or
course the children took fancy to
the largest and most brilliant. Those
which they rejected Mrs. Lloyd put
into M empty mustard bottle. and
when the bottle was full she made Il
little bag and put in all that her hus-
band brought home n store Of fl
turo playth,rgs for her children.
From the description Of thcso ii i
inferred some Of thym must have
been worth from $4,000 to 10000
apiece.
The large ono DIR. lloyd found not
among tho paintings, but wlilo work.
ing himself in tho mine in the pLlce
of Il sick hand, While raising gravel
he found II stouo just lih,fho little
ones, except it was bright and shin
ing only on one side, the othoy sido
bciug covered With crust of brown.
1t was about tho size Of u guincacgg-
as hc was Obliged to work very hard
to keep the wh,oibalrOws E!.ol with
gIavoi for tho riiilcrS, ho laid his
pretty stone OH tho bank Of tho
stream hard by, ut tho root of Il large
gum tree. But ut nighttall Lo was
worry tired and forgot tue pretty
stone,
Twelve years after that hG was
shown rough diamond and was in.
stantiy struck with it's Resemblance
to the contents of tho mustard bot,
tie, and it struck him ut onco that
tho stones were diamonds, Ho was
ut that time keeping Il hotel in At
lanta, his wife was dead, and his
daughter was married and removed
to northwestern Georgia, taking
from Hall county all the furniture