DIAMOND FIELD OF THE GREAT LAKES $77 



ground of his ignorance of the nature of the stone at the time 

 of purchasing it. 



The writer called upon Colonel Boynton at Chicago, and was 

 allowed to examine the stone. Both it and the Oregon diamond 

 were subsequently purchased by Tiffany & Co., of New York, 

 and are still uncut in the Tiffany collection. 1 



Through Mr. Boynton the writer learned that a large dia- 

 mond had been found in 1884 (this date should be 1886), by a 

 farmer named Endlich, at Kohlsville, near West Bend, Washing- 

 ton county, Wisconsin. The stone had been brought to Mr. 

 Boynton's shop for examination, and he had remembered it as a 

 wine-yellow diamond, weighing 21 j^ carats. After considerable 

 correspondence this diamond was located by the writer in the 

 possession of Mrs. Louis Endlich, of Kewaskum, Wis, the 

 widow of the man who had discovered the stone in the neio-h- 

 boring town of Kohlsville. On visiting Kewaskum the writer 

 was allowed to examine the stone, which proved to be in all 

 respects as described by Colonel Boynton, and there is no doubt 

 that the weight (21^ carats) reported by him is approximately 

 correct, since this stone is considerably larger than the one from 

 Eagle. Mrs. Endlich stated that her diamond was found by her 

 husband in the spring of 1886 while plowing a field on his 

 farm in the town of Kohlsville. 2 This stone is still in her pos- 

 session. 



In 1894 Mr. Kunz reported the finding by Mr. Frank B. 

 Blackmond of a diamond weighing almost 1 1 carats, at Dowagiac, 

 Cass county, Michigan. This locality is to the southeast of Lake 

 Michigan, on the Michigan Central railway, between Niles and 

 Kalamazoo. The stone was found in the glacial drift and some 

 search was subsequently made in the vicinity for other stones, 

 but with negative results. 3 



1 Wis, H. Hobbs : he. cit, p. 32. 



2 Wm. H. Hobbs : N. J. B., 1896, II, p. 33 ; also Bull. Univ. Wis., Sci. Ser., Vol. 

 I, 1895, pp. 152-154; see also, G. F. K.UNZ : Eighteenth Annual Report U. S. Geol. 

 Surv. Pt. IV, 1895, P- 596. 



3G. F. Kunz: Sixteenth Annual Report U. S. Geol. Surv., 1895, Pt. IV, p. 596. 



