Identifier: stnicholasserial351dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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of the precious blue are dislodged. These are loaded into little trolleys and run quickly to the elevators; they emerge at the surface and are run to the dumping grounds. I should tell you that so hard is the soil that it has to be spread out in what looks like tennis-courts for many months until the action of wind, rain, and sun have made it amenable to treatment by the pulverizing and washing machines, which will pass over garnets, olivines and other gems found associated with the diamond, and arrest only the most precious of all stones on grease-lined tables. The soil that remains is carefully sorted by the Kafirs on special tables under the supervision of white men. Despite this, however, smuggling goes on at the rate of nearly $5,000,000 a year, . . » *T^a fSKv^* • *■ •>■■■* v ill/* - -■■ ■*& 9k tteV-*^., W **_^^H SnAll ■* .sum m ^m ipr . ■ ■■ ■ ■ ; *-#*■ --. A PART OF THE DAYS TAKE. FIVE HEAPS OF MAGNIFICENT STONES. THE DIAMOND MINES OF KIMBERLEY 227
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SORTING AND SEARCHING TABLES and all stones so stolen are actually bought back by the De Beers Corporation, so anxious are they to control the diamond trade of the world. Their monopoly bids fair to be cut into, however, by the new diamond diggings recently found in the Transvaal. One of these claims known as the Premier recently turned up the most monstrous diamond the world ever saw. It is called the Cullinan, after the chairman of the company, and is bigger than a man's fist. Moreover, it is of transparent purity; and already the colossal sum of $2,000,000 has been offered for it by an international syndicate. Meanwhile the world's greatest chemists, well knowing the constituents of the diamond, have been trying to make precious stones in their laboratories, and the great French scientists M. Berthelot and M. Moissan have actually produced diamonds and rubies — small enough, yet absolutely real — in their crucibles. You might think this means an end to mining for diamonds, with its romance and adve

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