Smithsonian Report. 1923. — Miser and Ross 



Plate I 



I. The Arkansas Diamond Mine, Near Murfreesboro, Arkansas 



Deeply weathered peridotite underlies all the treeless area and has been mined by means of a 



drag-line scraper 



2. Trench in Soft Decomposed Peridotite on the Arkansas Mine 



Lee Wagner, the man standing in the picture, has found more North American diamonds than 

 any other man on the continent 



