The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-30
New york world.

NSW IOEh NoAAN
 In the barren hills of Eastern Ken lucky a party of South African pros pectors are digging feverishly for dia- monds.
 It is a far cry from the kopJes Of Kimberly to the knobs of Kentucky. but the similarity of the two districts which has puzzled geologists for many years, has had its logical climax. South African geologist who was sent by "Ooom Paul. Kruger twelve years ago to explore the Hudson Bay coun- try for the source of the diamonds found in scattered localities in Amer ica. predicted that diamonds would be found in Kentucky, and the mines have at last been found, just as he said they would be. by an exiled general of the Boer army.
 There is no doubt about the simil- arity between the South African and the Kentucky aelds. MT. Kunz. the famous government expert on Jewels, has pronounced the Kentucky blue grounds. to be the same as Kimberley ''blue," and few weeks from now all doubts will be set at rest by actual washing for diamonds.
 Occasional diamonds have been found in Kentucky and within a wide radius % the south. east and north-
 
 or pipe" as it is called in South Africa. These stones have never be- fore been traced to their source, al- though many attempts have been made to find the deposit from which all are supposed to have come. While Presl- dent Kruger's expert was waiting for funds and instructions he took d fly- ing trip to the locality hs suspected
 There l saw land," he said in an interview printed in The New Orleans Picayune ten years ago, that but for the fact that English was spoken would have taken for a little slice out of the heart of the diamond country of South Africa was recalled to Pretoria by the breaking out of the war, and so could go no further, but want to make the prediction now that the greatest diamond mines in the world are hidden somewhere around that region among the kopjes of Ken lucky"
 General Samuel Pearson, of the Boer army, was sent to this country during the war. While he was at New Or leans vainly petitionfng President Roosevelt to be allowed to attack the British camp at Chalmette, La, and put stop to the'shipment of supplies from there to the British armies in South Africa, the prediction that had been made by the eminent Boer geologist was shown to him. He recognized its importance and determined then to car ry on the investigation as soon as the war was over.
 Similar to Kimberley Mine.
 Gen. Pearson had been a weII-to-do' mining engineer and planter in the Transvall, but the end of the war found ann stranded in America, his farms fds1 fa xrFtf prisoners of war He went to the coal regions of Pennsylvania and found em- ployment Several years passed before he was able to get his family together again, but at last they were reunited at Scranton, Pa.
 All through these years of trial Gen. Pearson's eyes had been turned long, ingly toward the knobs of Kentucky. But others had not been idle, and several parties ha dactually prospected through the knob country looking for gems. There they found "cape rubies" and finally somebody found a Float" of blue rock. Specimens of this were sent 10 MT kunz, and he pronounced 1t similar to Kimberlite.
 This was enough for Gen. Pearson. He wrote to David Draper, Curator of the Chamber of Mines and Mineral Collections at Johannesberg, Honorary Secretary of the Geological Society of South Africa, fellow of the Geological Society of Holland, and the leading sauthority of the world on diamonds and diamond mines. Gen. Pearson urged him to come to America.
 It was some time before this could be arranged General Pearson could not wait. He associated with himself several well-to-do Kentuckians. They explored the region thoroughly while awaiting the arrival of MT. Draper.
 They found what they were looking