Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-17
'pecial Correspondence.
. ULL1NAN, The Transvaal, South
Africa You have all heard Of
I the cullinan diamond, the

~ CLLlNtA-S, Inc iEaiisFsial, .9o 'iii'
Africa.-You have all heard OF
u the CulIinan diamond, the
mighty stone which was recent
ly presented by the government OF the
Trausvaal to King Edward VII and Is
now being cur in Amsterdam 1T is by
several times the largest diamond ever
found, and Its value Is over a milton.
I am writing these notes on the edge
of the mine from which 1t was taken.
From where l stand | can look right
down into 1t, or rather over ", fof ~
s covers so acres. the area. of a good SIZED
farm. 1t Is known as the Premier ola-
niond Mine. andit Is by far the larg-
est diamond mine in the world On that
hill3at the left can see the great gear.
with its crushing, washing and pulsat-
ing machines. They arc fed by the
caravan of cars which are now lying
up to it over that inclined roadway.
The mine itself Is black with work
men, There are 9,Q00tof natives at work
digging out the ore and loading It on
cars. Here men are blasting, there
they arc laying railroads, and farther
over digging tunnels down into the blue
ground. There atone end of the mine
are the offices where the managers dl-
rect the work, They consist Of IRON
rooted building worth under $1,000. and
seem strange headquarters for q Dust
ness which employs thousands of men
and has an output of millions a year
Farther back are the Compounds In.
which the native workers are kept I'M
der guard and just back Of me is the
railroad station with its hotel and few
stores, forming the town Of cullinan.
THE WORLDS BIGGEST D1AMANDa
MIME.
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diamond pipes of Kimberley from
which. until lately. % per cent Of the
worlds diamonds came. have told you
how each of them was made by a vol
cano which bored Its way up out Of the
bowels of the earth through the hardest
of rock, and left there a deposit of
blue ground sprinkbad with diamonds.
Some OF tho Kimberley pipes have been
tested half Il mile downward. and they
find that the diamonds are as thick at
the bottom as they We're at the top,
Thissm mine here isEof the same fcrnA-
ton save that the pipe3is sotlarge that
all the De Beers mines could be put.
inside 1T and leave room for everal. bi 6.
diamond mines in addition, The Pre-
mier pipe is now we'll outlined. 1t Is
half mile long and a quarter or a mile
wide. Within it there Is nothing but
this blue ground sprinkled with dia-
monds. Every yard of it contains pre-
cious stones In 1906 more than 100000
carats were taken from it, and during
the first six months of 1867 the output
was more than million carats.
1t is now only four years since the
mines began to be worked and since
then it has been producing diamonds
at the rate of a carat and quarter per
minute for every minute Of every day
and night year in and year out a
carat quarter diamond makes q
mighty pretty engagement ring. Cut
and set it would be worth at least 500.
This mine has been turning out such a
ring every minute. That gives YOU some
idea of It's value The total output in
money has been over s250O0,O00, and
within the past year or so it has been
paying several millions a year in divl-
dends.
THE PREMIER VS.. THE DE BEERS.
This Premier mine is comparatively