James D. Hague 



influential capitalists, who had been 

 led to believe the favorable reports 

 thus far presented, had invested large 

 sums of money in the purchase of 

 the ground said to be diamond-bear- 

 ing, and were preparing for the in- 

 tended operation of the so-called 

 mines on a large scale, which would 

 soon have caused a rush of fortune- 

 hunters and adventurers comparable 

 to the California immigration in '49 

 and '50. Through information gained 

 by one or more of his assistants, it 

 suddenly came to Mr. King's knowl- 

 edge that the locality of the alleged 

 diamond find was not in Arizona, but 

 in Wyoming and really within the 

 region of his own field-work of the 

 Fortieth Parallel survey. Not then 

 suspecting a fraud, but, on the con- 

 trary, having good reason to regard 

 as trustworthy the favorable reports 

 of the well-known engineer who, 

 shortly before, had visited the fields 

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