The Elbert County tribune., 1899-10-05
ETFKSDIAMOND FIELD
WISCONSIN roLAHRAooR

, Hobbs. of wisconsin. Finds Evil
'ss 70 Encourage Him In seAre"-
si, man is looking for II
A Mn..hsrley on the American con-
He knows that Il IS there, pu'
Dea. .ure that he will find it, There
De mIliions in 1t and II Is a ittie
aa that the quest lns attracted so
iisnsv, s.v,,en,Ion and that there have
rue snIes on his trail seeking TO be
een W dIscoyerey of the promised
"a. mines. From time to time
lamons have been found in Wauke-
amosu, amn,r and the neighboring parts
% ,,r,'saansIn. ryu Sapphlres have been
.hsre in much greater numbers
IN ,he diamonds.
81 @ and gem experts from else
tis9 nave investigated these diamond
nsle lii the result that they Were
no,rced nos not TO be diamond fields
~ as the region has absolutely
..a N the geological characteristics
diamond bearing country. so the
ms OF diamond mines vanished
~ s,rav diamonds We're strays, that
y ali and how they happened none
In, 10 conjecture until DIR. w. III.
5sbhs professor Of mineralogy In the
..,s University, began to Investigate
BE- matter. - ,.,
helonr TO that region. How did
:, crt there. Perhaps dropped there
the aborigines, though that was
,rily n plausible theory. When gold
sonnd in the bed of rivers, the min
!, know that 1t has been washed
nrn from somewhere. They follow
y races of the gold and look for the
k,o,ber lode. and thus many rich mines
Isre been discovered. But one could
I,rlly expect to find trail OF dia-
[onds leading to the mother pans.
soweyer the gold hunters method
5nrnlshed suggestion. Where did
\ diamonds come from? Where did
NJ houlders and glacial debris of the
Fs,,ie range of hills In southern Wis
0usIu come from? They didn't belong
the underlying local geological for
IstIons any more than the diamonds.
| Then what more natural conclusion
han that the great ice cap that
bought down the boulders, pushed up
10 Kettle range as terminal NOR
Iue and dug the myriads of lakes, al
4 brought down the diamonds. So ns
bese boulders had home somewhere
I the far and frozen north, so had the
|amonds. Boulders and diamonds
ame together from British America,
Eum the shores of Hudson's bay, from
labrador. from the Mackenzie. Lab
hdor Is the original home OF the dia-
bonds, in DR.. Hobbs opinion. and he
on his way thither. He will follow
b path Of the glacier, and it is taking
I'm in that direction at present. 1t II
sy to follow the direction taken by
BE- Ice cap. But whether the ice cap
y not erase all the external manifes-
ions, the volcanic crumplings OF the
smond pans. when 1t was picking up
almonds and boulders, remains to be
rn
Il is possible that n diamond field
bay be found nearer than Labrador
nded. geologist of Wausau. Mr.. r.
Clark, has risen to say that the dia.
ond field is In northern Wisconsin or
Michigan. He says: Don't Labrador
be- The man who talks Labrador
lks through his hat. Well informed
ten estimate that the upper peninsula
Michigan contains more carbon than
Be state Of Pennsylvania, and no part
the world had more heat and pres
pre- applied TO its rock than upper
ffhgan. We see here all the condi-
on' required for n great natural dia
lond factory, while the stray dia-
londs picked out of the glacial drift
southern Wisconsin prove that the
Pat natural diamond factory of up
H Michigan has been successfully OPP
nicd at some former time"