Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-12-04
A FRESH DIAMOND FIELD.
A Bushei Of Clipped. Cracked, spII
and Spotted Gems Pawued 4

A Bushei of Clipped, Cracked, SpIt,
and Spotted Gems Pawned I'm
Eureka.
For several days our reporter has been
nosing out the true inwardness of an OK.
traordinary commotion among the money
sharps Of the Base Range on account Of a
bit of "Uncle Isaac" speculation which
has, at last, come to the surface in spite Of
every precaution to keep the "~little bust
ness in a dark corner. There is a pawn
broker in Eureka who has been doing a
regular business" in off-colored dia-
monds. One Of a shrewd conspiracy,
with headquarters in San Francisco, has
been receiving installments to suit the
market OF Clipped, split, cracked and
spotted diamonds. These precious gems
are bought by wholesale in large cities,
and a splendid turn is made on them by
working them off on unsophisticated coun-
try folks. There's millions in it il they
can be sold at all. When they fash ont
their rays in q town of a few gudgeons
like Eureka, they are in beautiful dress set
oil to the greatest advantage, and twinkle
like "dot leedle STAR" How many OF these
precious stones deck the persons of the
fair ladies and brave men of Eureka, we
are not able to say. How many pawn
brokers there are who have them Sin
soak" we cannot tell either. But we know
OF. one prominent citizen and solid man
who has a lot that you can buy cheap. He
has
ONLY S., 900
Invested in them. This prominent citizen
10 q shrewd man, and usually puts his
money where it will do him the most good.
he has had so many benefits like this that
he has grown rich, and the i~mpecunious
point to him, saying: II wish / ! had that
old fellows coin. Whatever he gets his
fms into turns to gold. "These discon-
tented critics, bewailing cruel Fortune, do
not realize that this capricious dame may
for a season desert her f~avorite son. I'm
Gle Isaac approached this solid citizen
cautiously. He wanted to ~"fail;" he want
ed to realize on ode goods;" he wanted to
clean up, and he was going to sell "for dirt
cheap all his shewelry." The "girls"
had left some nice little dings at his shop
and he must get the money for them; he
couldn't wait any, longer. Our solid
friend jumps at the sparkling opportunity.
In dribblets he pawned from the sharper
ahtlt hC lat lutG5ttu SO,UDU
in golden twenties. Up to this time he
had never suspected that ANYBODY
could be cheating him. The scheme was
80 well laid and the pawnbroker seemed
so recklessly running himself by the sacri-
fee OF his precious stones that he never
took counsel with any connoisseur in the
lapidary art. But the gorgeous spell was
at last broken. He not only found him
self horribly bilked, but be scratches his
head to discover some means OF redress,
when there is zone under the sun. He
paid his money for diamonds,
n THEY ARE DIAMONDS,
But Of such a kind as will never find a re-
deemer. At law there is no fraud in the
transaction, and consequently no remedy.
Several other victims have been found to
invest in a few Of these valuables, laying
them by to surprise their friends with on
Christmas. This sorto of thing has been in
vogue here for six or seven months, and
has been systematically carried on. But
there Ia another sort Of fraud who has not
let his opportunity slip.
THE POCKET BROKER
Has been doing, not a rushing, but a
profitable. business. He has his shop in
his pocket. First thing you know you
find a diamond sparkling at the end of
your nose. You ask what that is. The.
peripatetic "Uncle Isaac says: "0h,
nothing; only q little stone OF the first
water. Cheap, if you want it. Got it
from one of the girls. She is gone" You
find bargain, and, as the saying Is, "you
hop on to it,"
The moral Of this story is How long
are we to be thus taken in?