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ful cr^^stals, was announced at two points in Goochland 

 county, by Mr. G. L. Chase, and also near Lovingston, Nelson 

 county, by Mr. Benjamin Dillon. In 1902 a promising locality 

 was discovered and opened in Amherst county, near Lowes- 

 ville. 



The western sources of production are chiefly in Mon- 

 tana. A crystal weighing 12 pounds was found at Granite, 

 and in 1900 remarkable discoveries were made in Jefferson 

 county, some 22 miles southeast of Butte, by Mr. A. P. Pohn- 

 dorf . Here ameth}- st occurs in fine cr3^stals, curiously mingled 

 with quartz both colorless and smoky. Crj^stals of black 

 tourmaline so penetrate the quartz as to render it opaque. 

 The amethyst itself is free from these inclusions, though some- 

 times it forms parts even of the same crystals. 



In Colorado, amethyst is reported from Cripple Creek 

 and from localities in Park and Mineral counties, but no special 

 data have been given as to these occurrences. 



Good material has been brought from two or three points 

 in Alaska, but there has been no development as yet. 



Natural rolled pebbles of quartz, of various colors, are 

 often beautiful, sufficiently so at times to be applied to some 

 uses in the arts or for cheap jewelrj^ At many points along 

 the Atlantic coast, visitors to the seaside resorts gather pebbles 

 of attractive aspect, especially those of colorless transparent 

 quartz, and sometimes have them cut as souvenirs. These are 

 the so-called Cape May diamonds, and there is quite an in- 

 dustry at many resorts in gathering pebbles to cut for gems, 

 seals, etc. A good deal of fraud is also practiced upon visitors, 

 all manner of ornaments being sold as material fomid in the 

 vicinity. At Narragansett Pier, R. I., some local dealers and 

 lapidaries have been known to sell foreign cut quartz, cairn- 

 gorm stone, topaz, crocidoiite, Ceyloncse moonstone, and even 

 glass as stones from the beach. In some cases pebbles found 

 by visitors and entrusted to lapidaries for cutting have been 

 replaced by cut stones imported from Bohemia, Oldenburg, 

 and the Jura, where cutting is done on such a large scale and 

 at such low wages that the stones can be brought here at one 

 tenth of the cost of cutting the material itself, in the case of 

 quartz, having but small value. The annual proceeds from 



