The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-02
Arkansas Farmers Are Crazy
 Over the Discovery
MAY BE NEW KIMBERLY
Only One Paying Deposit Has Been Found So Far-Little Rock Com pany Has Grabbed Best Land
 For Development.

Little Rock, Ark. September 1-tSpe- cial.)-Arkansas is in a fiutter of excite ment. The rest of the country has read with interest of the discovery of iia- monds, but this Is nothing to the commo- tion that the report has caused in tho state itself Every owner of a rocky farm in the hills sees himself the prospective owner of diamond mine that will rival the Kimberley mines
 Up to the present time, however, only one find of what are believed to be da- monds in paying quantities has been made. This find is near Murfreesboro, .n Pike county
 The mere fact that diam onds had been found would not of itself be of importance because they have been found in twenty nine other places in the United States at various times, but all other finds have been of one or two stones at place. and in each case they have been glacial.
 Much Like Kimberly.
 The geological survey has issued this report relative to the Pike county dia- monds:
 ''They occur in an ignecus rock. similar to that in the South African mines. whl,h forms q small stock near Murfreesboro. The first two stones were found August l. 1sOG and since then many have been picked up, the total number found at last report being 13o. Many are white and of good water; others are yellow and some are brown. The two largest stones weigh six and q half earats one being exceedingly fine white and the other brown. They are found on the surface as well as within the greenish, friable. decomposed periodtite, Il rock like the famous blue ground of Kimberley
 Dr. John c. Branner several years ago expressed the opinion that the presence of diamonds was indicated In Pike coun- ty, but nobody took sufficient interest in his statement to make further inpesti- gation.
 Form Development Company.
 A company has been formed that will carry out the work of developing the mine. Among the directors are Charles s. Stint a leading jeweler of Little Rock, also president and vice president of seV- eral financial institutions, Sam w. Rey- burn, president of the Union Trust com pany, and Albert D. Cohn, head of the 1. NJ. Cohn company. one of the largest dry goods houses of this section.
 John Wesley Huddleston owned a farm in the hills of Pike county. He was an enthusiast about minerals and always carried around specimens of ore bearing rock He lives much outdoors and bought q farm more for it's mineral possibilities than for its fertility.
 But one day he picked up crystal which glinted brightly in the sunshine and seemed to hold the light more than any other he had noticed. He took it home to add to h.s collection Rubbing it against another crystal he noticed that 1t cut It. He then decided 10 take the some to Murfreesboro and get some other persons opinion on 1t. MT. Huddleston rode mueback toward Murfreesboro. Pos sessed now with the idea that the crys- tals on his land were valuable, he kept his eyes on the ground as he rode along. Passing through one of his fields. his eyes caught glint of reflected sunshine from pebble in the dirt. Dismountng' he picked 1t up and proceeded on his way
 Eventually he showed 1t to Judge J. C. Pinnix, who, finding that 1t cut watch crystal like glasscutter, advised him to send 1t to Little Rock. The specimens were sent there and thence to New York, where experts declared they were dia- monds.
 pr. Henry S. Washington of New York visited the Huddleston place, but in the meantime eighteen other diamonds had been found, making twenty-one. After a careful investigation. covering several weeks, Dr. Washington gave 1t as his opinion that the company formed by Lit tie Rock men had included all of the dia- mond bearing area in it's purchase.
 Hunting the Chimney.
 Since that time systematic effort has been made to locate the crater pipe, chimney, or tube, as 1t Is variously called Diamonds are framed by the of carbon and are brought from below the surface of the earth by volcanic action. By this up- leavaI a tube or chimney is forced the rock and the diamonds are found in the blue clay which Is then deposited.
 In the original upheaval several dia- monds were forced to, or near to, the surface of the pipe. and it was these surface stones that were first found oy Mir. Huddleston and others. They were freed from the mother earth by the erosion of the blue clay 5y ex- posure to the elements for hundreds or thousands of years.
 A core drill was put in and by It's use the crater and it's dimensions were Diamonds to the number of 40 have already been found even with the inadequate machinery. Most of these have been on or near the surface. and three or four have been found by pan washing. though only the rrudest method of working has yet been pursued.
 When work was systematically begun col. Theodore Hartman of Little Rock was selected as manager, and he went down to devise an economical method or He has made the best ind. He picked up stone which weighed four and half carats, fiawless blue white gem.
 John Peay of Little Rock had similar Iuck. While overseeing his men he pick ed I'D at his feet a superb canary dia- mond weighing one and half carats, hawless and so perfect in shope that little cutting win be required to make it a marketable gem.
 
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