Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-17
AIT, ABOUT THE CULLIrAN DIAMOND WHICH
~ NOW BEING GUT AT AMSTERDAM.

, cheaper the prices z, \, /. :
mo r think the high prices are TO
| n large extent the cause the demand;
Make diamonds as cheap as slass& anu
no one would wear them.
FINDING THE CULLINAN.
During my stay here Il have seen
| models of the Cullinan diamond maze
| of crystal and have talked VIII MI NJ.
| C,ullinan about it and also with ths
erswlo discovered it. The diamond
is lust aboutfas big as my fist. It IS
almost the size of IL glass tumbler, ana
IT weighs over one and one-thira
| pounds, 1t is about four inches long;
Two and one-half inches thick anuS
about two inches wide If you can I'M
agine chunk Of glass OIL irles va va,
shape Weighing about 70 ounces you
nn,, have some idea of tho size ana
shape OF this, the greatest of all dia-$
monds.
The stone was discovered by Mr.. r.
Wells. the mine uHerseer OF the Ere.
micr. He was experimenting the WORK
as walked through the diggings to-
day I asked him some questions as
to his great find. Said he:
1--WE discovered the Cullinan dia-
mond on the 25th of January, 1904. !
had a gang of natives working not far
from the center of the pipe. We nau
gone down to depth of about five feet
from the surface and had been taking
out good stuff all day. The sun was
imst setting and we were about to
knock off when saw something white
and sparkling lying on slope OF the
hue. Il The rays of the setting sun
caught it and it looked like fire. I took
up pick and rushed to the spot ING
earth was already loose about the Stone
and In a short time it was In my hand.
1t was so big that l was dazed at my
discovery. 1 ran with 1t across the
mine to the office, burst into the man
ayers room and laid down the stone
before Mr.. McHardy and Mr.. Cullinan,
They were as much astonished as my
self. We then weighed it and the next
day the word was sent out that tho
biggest diamond of the world had been
found"
A COSTLY NAIL PACKAGE.
It Is interesting to know how this
great diamond got to London. Think
OF the responsibility of carving some
thing as big as your fist so small that
you could put 1t in your coat pocket and
Weighing little over A pound, worth q
million dollars or so from Pretoria,
South Africa to London. 1t would be
a brave man who would risk 1t without
a guard, and if a thief could get hold
of it it might be easily Struggled and
carried away. Nevertheless the dia-
mond got to London and that without
guards of any kind save those of his
majesty's mails. 1t was put up as
package, registered and sent by parcel
post 1 asked Mr.. Cullinan if he was
not afraid to risk so much in that way.
He replied:
Il don't know of anything that could
be safer. No one knew what was in
the package, and it was carried with
less damage by mail than had it been
guarded by soldiers
I understand however. that the stone
was insured for two million dollars, all
though the government received less
than 80 cents for carrying 1t, and the
maximum amount which could have
been recovered from 1t In case of loss
was less than $40. At the same time
dummy parcel supposed to contain the
diamond is said to have been osten-t
tatiously taken to Cape Town and
thence to Southampton. while the real
treasure lay as an ordinary parcel in
the mails.