The state herald., 1899-10-06
SEEKSDIAMOND FIELD
FROM wlscoNs,NroL LABRADOR
Professor Hobbs, of Wisconsin. Finds Evil
denoe 70 Encourage Him In search.

A Wisconsin man Is looking for a
new Kimberley on the American con-
tinent. He knows that 1t Ia there, but
is not sure that he will find it There
are millions In 1t and it IL a little
strange that the e'quest has attracted 10
little attention and that there have
been no spies on his trail seeking to be
In at the discovery Of the promised
diamond mines. From time to time
diamonds have been found in Wauke-
sha county and the neighboring parts
Of Wisconsin. Sapphires have been
found there In much greater numbers
than the diamonds.
At times the faculty of the State Uni.
versity and gem experts from else
where have investigated these diamond
fields, with the result that they We're
pronounced not to be diamond fields
at all, rs the region has absolutely
none Of the geological characteristics
of diamOnd-bearing country. So the
dreams Of diamond mines vanished.
The stray diamonds were strays, that
was all, and how they happened none
thought to conjecture until DIR. w. II.
Hobbs, professor of minernlogy In the
State University, began TO investigate
the matter Ffss fhss' +-h ts
There were diamonds there, they did
mt belong to that region. How did
they get there. Perhaps dropped there
by the aborigines, though that was
hardly plausible theory When gold
is found in the bed of rivers, the min
ers know that 1t has been washed
down from somewhere. They follow
the traces of the gold and look for the
mother lode, and thus many rich mines
have been discovered. But one could
hardly expect to find n trail of dia.
mOnds leading TO the mother pans.
However, the gold hunters method
furnished suggestion. Where did
the diamonds come from? Where did
the bOulders and glacial debris Of the
Kettle range OF hills in southern Wis
cousin come from? They didn't beloA,
TO the underlying local geological for
nations any more than the diamonds
Then what more natural conclusion
than that the great ice cap that
brought down the boulders. pushed up
the Kettle range as terminal NOR
aine and dug the myriads Of lakes. al
SO brought down the diamonds So as
these boulders had a home somewhere
in the far and frozen north. so had the
diamonds. Boulders md diamonds
Nuhe toEethtf lIolh DTltisu .tLneTlCu,
from the shores of Hudson's bay. from
Labrador, from the Mackenzie. Lab.
rador is the original home of the dia
mOnds, in DIR. Hobbs opinion. md he
is on his way thither. He will follow
the path of the glacier. md II Is taking
him In that direction at present. 1t is
easy to follow the direction taken by
the ice cap. But whether the ice cap
did not erase all the external manifes
tatiOns, the volcanic crumplings OF the
diamond pans, when 1t was picking up
diamonds and boulders, remains to be
seen.
1t is possible that diamond field
may be found nearer than Labrador
Indeed, geologist of Wausau. Mr.. T.
W. Clark. has risen to say that the dia.
mond field II In northern Wisconsin OF
Michigan. He says: Don't Labrador
me. The man who talks Labrador
talks through his hat Well Informed
men estimate that the upper peninsula
OF Michigan contains more carbon than
the state Of Pennsylvania, and no part
OF the world had more heat and pres
sure applied TO its rock than upper
Michigan. We see here all the condi.
uons required for n great natural dia.
mond factory. while the stray din
mOnds picked out OF the glacial drift
in southern Wisconsin prove that the
great natural diamond factory OF up
per Michigan has been successfully OPP
Grated ut some former time"