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Natures Treasures Beneath Buildings
of Manhattan Are Second Only to
Norway's Famous Lance Rock
in Richness and Variety
By JOHN WALKER HARRINGTON

ments Of New York are OF gold. What
though these treasures are exasperat-
mgly inaccessible! They are there all
the same. But there would be so much
to remove that mining here would
never pay and so we shall have no
Goldfeld or Leadville boom.
Unknown to most Of us the pros
pectors are going up and down
throughout our streets, for those en-
thusiasts, the New York Neurological
Club. are seeking in the veins and
pockets OF the stones revealed by
foundation digging for the rich flow
ers of the rocks" In the GRANTEES.
schists and limestones which consti-
tute the basement strata of this our
city and among the boulders OF glacial
origin there areN fun many gems
serene.
The largest garnet in the world az
far as mineralogists know was found
at Seventh avenue and Thirty-fifth
street. A beautiful stone It is, too,
which may be seen in a case In the
American Museum OF Natural History,
where It is on loan from its owner, DR..
George F. Kunz- And. by the way, the
hunt for the riches OF the rocks in
New Jersey and New York city caused
Dr.. Kunz as a young man to study
precious stones. and then he took his
chemistry course at Cooper Union and
eventually became one OF the most
noted gem experts in the world.
King OF Garnets.
This king of the garnets which he
possesses was picked out of a Quartz
lite vein traversing the gneiss. Al
though the find was made in 1888. no
other stone OF the kind has been un-
earthed which is anywhere near as
large.
1t is six inches IN its largest diam
eter and weighs nine pounds. Twenty
Of its faces are absolutely perfect,
while the remaining four seem TO have
been marred by the pressure OF the
quartzite matrix.
ION the surface" to quote from the
report OF DR.. Kunz, "the color is of a
reddish brown, with an occasional
small patch Of what is apparently
chlorite, which greatly enhances It's
beauty. On a fractured surface, how
ever, the color Is a rich almandine ana
the material in the interior of the
crystal rs found to be very compact"
This remarkable specimen was long
neglected for II served as a doorstep
for a store in West Thirty NTH street
for several months. as the workmen
who found 1t had not the slightest
idea OF its value. After It had been
stepped on by thousand of feet the
great garnet was finally recognized
and eventually came into the collec-
ton OF the present owner.
1t Is not Of gem quality. magnificent
as 1t is, but It will always be regarded
as one OF the show pieces of the min
eral kingdom.
Garnets of full rich tones and
sparkling lustre, which are up to every
standard Of value. have been found In
our Gotham Golcondas.
"In New York city" to quote the
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often as ornaments, for they have an
appeal to the connoisseur as wcll as to
the amateur in science. The most
complex OF the gem stones in its COM
position, tourmaline Is triumph OF
the laboratory of bygone ages.
"A little OF everything" as Ruskin
says. There's always flint and clay
and magnesium in It: and the black is
iron, according to its fancy; and there
ID boracic acid. II you know what that
II, and II you don't I cannot tell you
to-day and It doesn't signify; and
there's potash and soda; and on the
whole the chemistry Of It is more like
. medieval Doctors prescription than
the making Of a respectable mineral"
Altogether staid and conservative is
tourmaline. for all that, and very valu-
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- 15W YORK is made up Of Col
IN condas. They are many OF
them tucked away among the
rocks beneath the skyscrapers and
apartment houses. and were the city
not such a gold mine in itself perhaps
we should have had Leadville or
.Goldfeld and all manner Of lucrative
diggings within our gates.
This is brought to mind by the ar
rest a few days since of one Brough-
ton Brandenburg charged with grand
larceny growing out Of his selling Of
shares In corporation formed for the
purpose OF mining asbestos in New
York. Now asbestos is only one Of the
500 minerals found In and around this
metropolis A remarkably fine spect-
men Of this mineral wool twenty-five
inches long was dug up not so many
years ago at Fifth avenue and Four
teenth street. There Is plenty OF It
even now in the big gulch up at
Spuyten Duyvil.
When Brandenburg said that am
phibole asbestos existed in quantity on
Staten Island he spoke the truth, but
as the land did not belong to his COM
pany, and there is grave doubt OF his
even having an option on 1t, there are
certain legal complications which were
his undoing.
What precious store there Is en-
folded in the rocks of this old town.
II any one had in early days seriously
gone to work to exploit thS mineral
wealth OF Manhattan instead OF find-
ing IL good only as foundations for the
building of offices and houses, what a
story of prodigal nature might have
been told
One OF the richest regions in min
erals in the world is right in the city
of New York. Some foreign biologists
who have come all the way from
France and Germany to ind ont have
said that Manhattan Is second only to
the famous Lanoe Rock In Norway In
the richness and variety OF its mineral
wealth.
II wouldn't Pay to Mine.
lest any one think that the COM
harrison TO Golconda, that East Indian
garden OF gems which the youth seek
ing fortune all over the earth found
ut last at his own dooryard. is extrav-
aGant. let us call to witness the last
report Of the United States Geological
Survey. A portion OF II, just from the
press. Is concerned with the gems and
precious stones Of 1918 throughout the
world. 1t is set forth that in the region
OF the Rand there was found a large
blue white diamond. On the same page
with this foreign occurrence is the rec
ord OF the precious stone findings for
this municipality.
The rare minerals and gems and
eemi-precious tones which are beneath
our streets are so numerous that per-
haps there is some justification for the
belief OF the immigrants that tho pave
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and hawless stones have been obtained,
from the facets OF which glints the
light of day in a dazzling manner.
Clear quartz, the rock crystal OF the
Orient, is found In many points in the
city Of New York. II can be cut into
vases and other ornaments or en-
ployed for lenses. Broadway at Fifty
sixth street has furnished some eX-
ceptionally fine specimens.
Other semi-precious stones which
Broadway furnishes are topazes. For
good topazes dig in the neighborhood
of Broadway and 1e5th street A find
Of opal has been recorded at Broadway
and Sixty-fifth street. But for dia-
monds. rubies, emeralds and sapphires
investigate Broadway above the sur
face in the vicinity of the Metropolitan
Opera House on winter evenings!
Tho War ana Native Minerals.
The minerals OF New York have
taken on a new coming since the be-
ginning OF the European war. In this
country we were accustomed to import
many chemicals from Germany and
materials from Austria which existed
in abundance here II we had only the
pa'e. W ioon ior .hen' many MIN
erals with )awpreaking names doomed
.n'o euuueh vaiuo because they were
the sources OF chemicals much needed
Al .ne S mus minerals OF New
- "en VIZ oHco only valued py
,,oi,,e 40 o.. ~" , 70 o, the hlghest
- ~ e' New iork were
$50 VI sse anu haa 10 nave
49, ,. a,,,s n. s iof aus inous.
ehsn,,oa, ,oS,'.. ~ sen-conlaineo
ara storss q, az o,na US own rocks
mardad Si0 'AAi 'es oe-
n csIc,ta srs ,.a,oa ,o- .,
strrroont. a., o.. - '.,- 20 ~
GONNA 20 - had :, D"aaS eS' '.1 49,. -
street by notIant s,a~, ~ AV''n
Few q, ne v,,,ho,. s.nSn,
b.rd ahon, ., 49,. pps W 'iiihk
on,do,. =. So - ~ -. - .ha'
nonsst ,,sa 49, e. 20 INC eoiil,
sIates and rrs'an1 oouonns
rnar,,,a oturaus &c - ooine
80. 90 =. - So pay soou
aIonr pt",os,so 'N epiuole pias'
nos,ts =, a. go, - - 'enslVe oe-
nortJor -, a. IL. ~" ~ ."e upper
iocar,t,, ,,,htoh epiuo,e
Lnowr ha,r 80, - mtueiy
ora ,asth -. ' avenue
Thts ni.n - ,.
which .,o,,;S -. %" % espsui
and a,so m,vht he 1919 S ~ o., -. paris an
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able for certain ultra scientific pur-
poses.
One can always be sure that a tour
maine Ia genuine, for any chemist who
attempted to produce 1t alphabetically
would be in the position OF the
chameleon who was placed on the
Scotch plaid. Broadway has furnished
some of the finest brown tourmalines
known and also several OF the green
variety. The black crystals, while
never found anywhere in gem quality.
are to be found associated with many
OF the rare minerals OF Manhattan.
The smoky quartz crystals which
have been cut like diamonds were
taken from the excavations for the
Harlem ship canal Along the line
OF Broadway. however. some beautiful
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CANYON THROUGH GNE,SS, WORN by
BRONX RIVER
ESN

current report of the Geological Sur
vey. garnet Of gem quality was coll
lected by Gillian s. Stanton and James
G. Manchester in November. 1913. on
Riverside Drive north Of West 165th
street. The cut stones are deeper red
than the spessartites found on the
same ridge about half a mile further
north. A number OF stones have been
cut. the largest about three-quarters
Of a carat in size"
Garnets are considered a common
mineral on the island Of Manhattan.
Like most OF our local mineral treas
ures they are brought to light in the
upper portion of the borough Of Man
haitian; because in the southern end
of the long tongue Of land the basic
rocks are covered with deep deposits
Of sand and clay. Where deep Dor
ings are made for foundation caissons
they are often taken from their hard
settings. The rock core OF . test
drill used at the southwest corner Of
broadway and Liberty street q few
years ago showed garnets In tho
schist seventy-three feet below tho
curb.
The best find Of garnets in New York
previous TO the Riverside Drive trove
was made by Mr.. Stanton in q vein
at Broadway and Sixty-ffth street.
This was In 1888. when he vas q
young student in mineralogy.
The beautiful and interesting crys-
tails OF garnet, of which there were
fifty-nine in one group, made o
sensation among tho collectors at the
thine. The deposit was axterward
worked by a dealer, who got q con-
cession and cleaned UP q handsome
profit In a commercial venture.
Messrs. Stanton and Manchester
have had some OF these garnets set.
Under the skill of the lapidary they
have been greatly improved.
One may derive a very good idea
Of the mineral beauties OF New York
by studying the collection OF Mr..
Manchester, which he has lent 10 the
Museum. At considerable expense, he
has had some OF the semi-precious
stones of New York cut. Although
they are not large. they compare very
favorably in color and brilliancy with
gems OF the Morgan collection on the
same floor. drawn from all parts OF
the earth.
Aauamarine ana Beryis.
One OF the finest gem stones ever
found IN Manhattan rocks Is an aqua
marine OF a pale green hue weighing
carat and a half. There are also
some exceedingly rich looking green
beryls which are so deep in their aiiur-
ing green that they once passed as en-
eralds. There CLEANS from It's plush
box In this group a single crystal Of
golden beryl which any one would be
glad Of the opportunity OF wearing. II
was taken out during the excavating
for an apartment building Just west OF
the Chapel of the Intercession.. near
Trinity Cemetery at Broadway and
l5Sth street. Several smaller gems OF
perfect color and lustre have been cut
from 1t and are being worn as Jewels.
The beryls are favorites of Broadway
and have been found all along its
length. The green beryis which were
found at Broadway and Sixty nth
street are especially fine. Chrysoberyis
are also frequently broken from the
Manhattan schist.
The gem stones in the tray also In
clude some brilliant tourmalines which
have a high rank among the Jewels
from the Broadway lode. One often
wonders that tourmalines are not worn
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12
Yuma Sun, November ~

Five thousand dollars for the alfalfa
seed off of fifteen acres of Yuma Val
ley land. That is, $4,000 if the seed is
Sold at present prices. An average on
fifteen acres of $3.50 per acre from
an alfalfa seed crop. Such is the
story that was brought to Yuma yes
terday by "Bill' Huss, who is just
threshing his alfalfa seed crop. For
The first fifteen acres threshed the
return was $5,632. Mr.. Huss was Of
fered 40 cents per pound for his seed,
but refused the offer.
Off of the fifteen acres Mr.. Huss
obtained "a sacks of first class Seed
or about 1000 pounds to the acre.
The market price at the present time
is 40 cents; but may go higher
Mr.. Huss is holding his seed for a
higher price.
When land will return such divi-
dends, the Yuma Valley farmer is the
most prosperous farmer in the world
and the Yuma Valley is the most pros
porous community on record.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12
UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE
COMMISSION

The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that carpen-
ter UNCONVENTIONAL examination will
be held on November 21st, 1919, for
the purpose of filling vacancy in
the position of carpenter in the utili-
titles service at Nogales, Ariz.
Application blanks and further in
formation may be obtained from the
formation may be obtained from the
Local Secretary, Board of Civil Ser
vice Examiners, at the Nogales, Ari-
iona, immigration Office.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12
UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE
COMMISSION

The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that plumber
noneducatitonal examination will be
held on November 21st, 1919, for the
purpose of filling a vacancy in the po-
sititon of plumber in the utilities
service at Nogales, Ariz.
Application blanks and further in
formation may be obtained from the
Local Secretary, Board of Civil Ser
vice Examiners, at the Nogales, Ari-
iona, immigration Office.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12
UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE
COMMISSION

The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that an cleo
trician, noneducational examination,
will be held on November 21st, 1919,
for the purpose Of filling a vacancy in
the position of electrician in the util-
tiles service at Nogales, Ariz.
Application blanks and further in
formation may be obta1neC from the
Local Secretary, Board of Civil Ser
vice Examiners, at the Nogales, Ari-
iona, immigration Office.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12
RED CROSS ELECTION

Nogales Chapter, Red Cross, will
hold annual election of officers We'd
nesday, November IL, at 8 o'clock, p.
M, in the ball room Of the Santa Cruz
Club. All Red Cross emmbers are re-
quested urgently to be present. II 9 a
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12

If its Electrical, We Can Help You:
Russell Electric & Machine Co., 233
Morley Avenue. 1921 If
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12
CAMP NEWS
Collection of Interesting
Items About Soldiers Sta
toned at NOgaIes and
Their Families

The dance given by the Second
Squaron, Tenth Cavalry, Tuesday ev.
ening, was a delightful affair. The
music was fine, delicious viands were
served the guests and everyone pres
ent had nice time.
Saddler John Wiethers left yester-
day for Fort Bliss, Texas, at whcih
post he will attend school.
-J-
Miss Mamie Turner, who has been
very i'll at her home, is able to be
about again.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12

Eye Trouble. See Arizona Optical
Company.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12

SAVE YOUR EYES. Consult Ari-
iona Optical Co.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12

William Smith, Machine Gun Com
pany; Ollie Smith, B Company; Clar-
ence Jameson, G Company; Allen
Thomas, l. Company; left yesterday
for Fort Bliss, wherethey will attend
school.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12

Sergeant John Day left yesterday
for Pittsburgh, Pa, where he will put
in the time of a thirty-da furlough.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12

RAGS WANTED-Will nav S
cents per pound for good clean rags.
Oasis office.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12
The Sun Quits when our lights "A
on. Arizona Gas & Electric Co.

Electrical Apparatus, Appliances
and Supplies: Russell Electric & Ma.
chine Co., 2S3 Morley Ave. 1921 If
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12

Sergeant Thomas of B Company de-
parted Tuesday for Los Angeles at
which place he will visit for thirty
days.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12

Anyone desiring visiting cards may
obtain them promptly by leaving or
ders with her.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12

New subscribers who have not re.
ceived their papers yet will get them
today or tomorrow morning.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12

Sergeant Evans of A Company left
for his home in the East, where he
will pass his thirty-day furlough.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12

The brightest llghts are ouRv.
Arizona Gas & Electric Co.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12
BUILDING
MATERIAL

When you build house you want
something that will last and look well.
Our stocks of building material are
large and give you the opportunity Of
selecting exactly what you want.
Our mill does all kinds of cabinet
and interior work so that you can
have your finishing work done to suit
your own taste.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-11-12


Tuesday Sergeant Donnelly of the
Machine Gun Company left for Kan
sas City where he will visit friends
and relatives for a month.
Company I is still the chief contrib
utor to Camp News. The reporter
would like to hear from the other COM
panies as well.
Sergeant Wright of M Company is
discharged but will not leave Nogales,
having decided to pass his vacation
here.
The reporter of Camp News is tax
ing subscriptions and orders for cards
New Britain herald., 1919-03-26
kOLCHAK ARMY GAINS.
Completes Capture Of Osa and Boil
Shcsdst Force Retreat.

London, March 26, via Montreal
Troops Of the Kolchak governm ent,
who pierced the Bolshcvik front on a
80 mile sector on March IL, continue
their progress and the position of the
BolsheV1ki is. precarious, according to
a Reuter- dispatch from Omsk. The
kolchak army has completed the cap
ture of Osa, southwest of Perm, and
is driving the Bolshevik army west
ward in three directions. The Boil
sheviki are abandoning large guam
titles Of stores, while the Kolchak
troops have taken a large number of
prisoners and annihilated three Boil
shevik regimen ,o
New Britain herald., 1919-03-26
PROGRESS IS REPORTED
American Delegates i'll Paris Cable
Assurance That Peace Work Is
Going Forward at steady Rate.

Washington, March 26.-A message
to the White House today from the
American peace delegation at Paris
said greater progress toward peace
was being made than appeared on
the surface
No details of The progress were
given.
In some quarters it was assumed
that the Am merican delegates were OPP
timistic over the important amend
ments to the league IF nations con-
stitution agreed upon yesterday, in
cluding one specifically to exempt do
mestic questions from the jurisdiction
of the league and over the apparent
certainty that the associated powers
will accept President Wilson's -proVi-
sion designed to preserve the Monroe
Doctrine.
New Britain herald., 1919-03-26
B0LSHEViSM threat
is GERMANY'S TRUMP
Count Won BernstOrff In.
sists on Peace Based on
Wilson'S Points.

Paris, March 25.--Germany is de-
termined to stick close to the Wilson
program in making peace with the
Allies, Count Won Bernstorff form er
German ambassador to the United
States, declared in an interview given
by the Berlin correspondent of the
Temps which that newspaper prints
today.
THE armistice Of November IL"
said Count Won Bernstorff, was
signed when all the powers interested
had accepted the program of peace
proposed. by President Wilson. Ger
many is determined to keep to this
agreement, which history will regard
in q way as the conclusion Of a pre-
liminary peace. She herself is ready
to submit to the conditions arising
from it and she expects all the in
terested powers to do the same. If
these essential conditions of the Will
son program should be violated or
neglected and especially if conditions
were imposed which went beyond the
program, the German delegates would
unfortunately find themselves in a
position Of, say, n-possumus."
plebescite for AlSace-Lorraine and
Gernnan-Arlstria.
"Ger1nanys attitude on indemni-
| ties he continued 'is fixed by her
! acceptance Of the note Of Nov. 5, 1918,
! whereby reparation is accorded for
/ all damage done to the civil popula-
tions of France and BELGIUM by Ger
man aggression. This note admits OF
. the payments of no ether indemni-
tes.'
] Asked what the consequences would
; be OF the failure to sign a peace
| Count Won Bernstorff replied:
! Il am no prophet, but Bolshevisn
would gain imm ensely. The liberal
world, which has seen salvation for
j humanity in President Wilson's prin-
| ciples would be terribly disappointed
| if peace We're not made. Even the
! higher classes would be given to
| despair. Remember that since the
| Middle Ages no idea has aroused the
worlds enthusiasm like a league OF
| nations; based on peace and justice
| and who will dare to cause the idea
! to miscarry at the first test? I hope
! that q league of all the nations OF
! the world will make common cause
against the spectre of Bolshevism and
! triumph over it,
New Britain herald., 1919-03-26
ALLIED MILIT
LEAVE HUJNGAK
ALLIED SOLDIERS IN
RUSSIA HELD At BAY
Hampered By Deep Snow
Men Are Unable to Gust
..-- ROlshevik Forces.

With the Allied Force in North
Russia, March "a, (By the Associated
Press)-The BoIsheviki are entrench-
ing and reinforcing both their infan-
try and artillery at Bolsh ola Ozera
and are endeavoring to hold this i'm
portant point in the line of Allied
com munjcations between Obosersk ia
and Omega. Yesterday the Americans
and British attacked from the west
side Of the village and the Russians
supported by Americans and British
alta cked from the east along the road
Fighting under the utmost difficulties.
the Allied troops wore unable to adj
vance beyond the lire CT enemy MAJ
chine guns while the Bolshevik artil-
lery maintained a certain sweep of
the winding high road through the
woods.
Struggling waist deep in the soft
drifting snow Of the forests, the forces
striking from the east found a flank
ing movement impracticab1e and
could progress only two-thirds of 81
mile an hour. Today the Allied troops
are blvouacked along the road on
both sides or the village within good
artillery range.
The weather during the past few
the Americans and others, who are
living in igloo-like Arctic tents, arc
finding their first opportunity to test
these shelters. They are holding the
line to Omega and Obozerskaia. Their
big guns are moving up drawn by
American mules who are steadily
plodding ahead and conquering the
steep, high icy hills, and snow drifts.
Airplanes, equipped with runners in
stead of wheels for alighting on the
snow have nom bed Bolshoia Ozera
The Bo1sheviki are trying many
ruses. In The wood where the Allied
patrols are operating the enemy has
tied dogs to trees and their barking
on the approach Of any human being
gives the Bolsheviki warning. When
the enemy first ratded BOlshcia Ozera
advance details OF Reds which rode
into the town wore the uniforms of
the Slavo-British legion. Their sur
prise of the little Allied garrison there
was evidently complete. Some of the
French escaped by walking for two
days and two nights through the
snow and turned up half frozen.
Malcolm V. Arnold, a Y. NJ G. A.
worker at Bolsho ia Ozera, is missing
and is believed to have been cap
tured.
New Britain herald., 1919-03-26
POLISH ARMY VICTORIOUS
BoIshevik Armies in Full Flight,
Leaving Many Cannon, Guns, Mon
CIV and Other War Materials.

Paris, March 26.----Tbe recent Po-
lish victories over the Bolsheviki in
the Finsk and Grcdno districts are Of
ficially reported by Polish hcadquar-
ters here in a statement given out
this afternoon as follows:
THE administration of the city of
Grodno has been formally taken over
by the Polish authorities.
'"The Bolshevik armies occupyin s
the city and district of Pinsk have
been beaten by the Poles. The Boil
shevilti In full flight left behind many
cannon, machine guns, ammunition,
locomotives railway materials and n
half million rubles.'