The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-10
A DIAMOND STORY.
Mexican Miner Spins a Yarn That Dazles About Stone that Dazzles.

Galveston News
 The we'll known Mexican miner. Major Tom Watson, was in Eagle Pass yester- day on his way to Boston. T am after put in his pocket" said the Major That sounds big, but I believe the cold facts of the case. or. raSiler, the ono great dag zing fact. warrants the assertion. Not got it yet. but am after it. and will get 1t if l can get the necessary capital in terested, as l expect to do in Boston. came in sight of this fortune on the first day of this month. while prospecting for tin in the Sierra Madre, and I haven't .slept much since.
 I'll tell you about it. but I will not give you the exact locality for fear that l could not then interest Boston people. as they would be afraid that some one else would get ahead of them. However. I will say that it is in the headwaters of the Rio Grande. In getting to the east ern slope. this stream had to cut through a spur of the Sierra, and in so doing carved out a canyon some two miles in length with walls on both sides having a sheer drop of over 1000 feet. All through the canyon the channel Is boil ing. seething rapid. A fish could not get t:.aough 1t alive. A man would not dream of attempting it. Well, while prospecting out there with my Mozo Lopez. we climbed up to the, brink of the precipice about midway the canyon. Both Lopez and myself noted glittering object at
 
 posite bank of the river. My first inn precision was that it was light reflected from piece of gypsum or other bright object. but when noticed that the gilt ter was from point deep down in the shadow far from the light of the sun. Iu- deed. during the winter the direct rays of the sun never reach the hottomNof this canyon. Lopez said lumbre (fire). but no flame ever burned in the open with light so pure and brilliant. We both stood gazing Ike persons entranced. The approach of evening blurred everything in the dark depths below, but this object still glowed with it's dazzling white light.
 Considering all the probabilities and ex cluding every possibility of error, l am convinced that it is d diamond, cut and polished diamond at that, whether by tn" hand of prehistoric man or by tEe natural action of sands and water in the canyon cannot say, but diamond cut and polished big as your head maybe, bigger than an orange.
 ''T camped around the canyon for ten days figuring on some way of getting al this Aladdin's lamp literally and figura- tively, but it was utterly impossible to approach it through the bed of the stream or anywhere from the clin above. How ever, I did find on the north side, the side on which the diamond lays. and about 400 wards above 1t, d point where the mountain drops almost perpcndicular- ly into valley that is very nearly 1T not quite level with the bottom ot the can Von. determined to tunnel here through the base of the mountain into the can yon, the distance being. I estimated, about 1000 yards. or course. to do this requires capital. and that is what l am going to Boston for. And those fellows np there will have to get d move on themselves. for the rains in the Sierra begin in July. and rise in the river might wash the diamond away.
 4 don't know much about digging tun- ncls. but with modern appliances l should think that a manhole, that is all that is needed. could hc drilled through the noun tain there for S25. 900 or S30.0oo. But what's a SS0 GOO or 0000 or $lO0.000 tunnel when it comes to getting q diamond that dag zles your eyes full half mile away?''