The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-01

docks. one of the most distressing scenes
in South Africa is The march of these men
from prison to work through the streets
surrounded by a regiment of guards. one
entire section is made up of Americans
and among them - the son of an ex-con-
gresham and the scion of a famous New
Orleans family.
To be a successful diamond thief, there
fore, requires the utmost cleverness, but
the detectives at Kimberly will tell you
of many instances when they have been
outwitted. An American from Chicago,
who owns saloon in johannesburg, wears
on his shirt bosom one of the finest stones
to be seen on the Rand and glories in tell
ing how he beat the Kimberly sleuths by
feeding the diamond in a bunch of hay 10
his horse lie rode the animal out of
Cape Colony pursued by the officers, an
til he got over the border into the Trans
vaaL where he cut the horse open and took
out his prize. +"t e.As
Another man got ahead OF, the detectives
by loading his gun with about 1870 earats
Suspicion rested on him and he was follow
ed, but escaped detection by firing the
charge into an OK. When the detectives
left he cut out the stones and made for the
Transvaal, which is the haven of the l. ID.
b. men. A great many diamonds have
been stolen by feeding them 10 chickens
and shipping the latter TO Johannesburg
America has proved a bonanza for Mr.
Rhodes and his syndicate. IL is chiefly
owing to our increased demand that the
prices have been raised. Mr.. George f.
Kun2, the Tiffany expert, who knows more
about diamonds tnan any one else in Amer
lea. has just completed his annual report
on the production of precious stones in
1898 for the department of the Interior
| -nited States geological survey, and there
ing predicts that the year 1890 will chron-
cle the greatest Importation into the
United States that has ever been known
and a furher advance in prices.
Fortunes spent In Tracing American
Diamonds.
In The meantime mineralogists are won.
deriug if America may not do much to-
ward breaking the com binc's power by
supplying new diamond fields The news
papcrs for five or six years have OCCASION
ally printed the announcement that line
diamond had been found near Milwaukee,
in Wisconsin. These stories have been
regarded by the public as of no particular
Importance, but not so by the
mineral ogists. From all over the world
experts have come to study that field. The
way in which the stones have turned up
has been mysterious.
Diamonds are the result of certain def
mite geological processes. They are the
product OF enormous heat and stupendous
pressure, both brought to bear upon car
bOn al the same time anu CIS H.
The geographical forma tons in which this
curious process has gone on are known
as chimneys. They are really compare
lively small vents through which enormous
quantities of matter have been expelled
quickly by means of some volcanic con
Vulson within the earth. Mother
Natude, in pushing a great quantity OF
practically molten matter containing car
bon through a hole too small for 1t,
brought about those two necessary .condi-
lions for the production OF diamonds-heat
and pressure.
But geclogists when they went TO local
ties where diamonds had been found In
Wisconsin, were puzzled by the fact that
no formation of the chimney kind existed
anywhere about. it was finally decided
that the stones must have been brought
from some great distance by a glacier,
which dropped them when 1t melted One
of the great jewery firms in New York
sent its celebrated expert to Wisconsin TO
study the course of this glacier. hoping o
find chimneys at the point where il start
ed. This expert did trace the glacier and
there found a chimney There was only
one, and it mad been worked out. Facts
indicated that his was done by a German
mneralogist, who was known 10 have been
i'm that locality some years before He
had quietly worked out the chimney, TAX
what stones he found, and finding no
other diamond-bearing spots, had gone
back TO Germany, saying nothing TO any
one of his find.
Tiffany & Co, alone has spent thousands
of dollars in studying the so-called NIL
waukee fields, but have al last abandoned
the enterprise. It is by no means certain,
however, that In America will not be found
diamonds fields of enormous richness. C
ologists and mineralOgists agree that n%
where else on earth exist conditions more
likely TO develop diamond-producing for
nations. An intelligent scientific search
for these diamond fields, which scientists
believe are hidden somewhere on this con-
tinent, is continually going ON and some
day we may all wake up and find that the
Klondike craze was nothing TO the dia-
mond craze which will then exist