. It perks my interest in the other article about the diamond mines too! Can you post that one as well? I seem to remember a diamond field shown on an old map in South Elliott Co. a few months back as I was searching late one evening.
Getting ppl to come in, buy land, & settle in...
YEP! "Work it up" to their satisfaction, as Frontier Folks...
about 1985 found a small old book at Ashland library on geology of Elliott county. the book date was around 1900 to 1925. this geologist from Cincinnati Ohio, told of his findings along creeks around the diamond mine. I can't be sure, (but i think it was ison creek??) he found a lot of garnets, rubies, and (Saffiries)?? he tested what he had found and said the total came to around 40,000 dollars. he did say a few diamonds were found. but in the whole book, he says nothing of finding anything on land? it was all found in the creeks. was this running down from a ridge line over hundreds of years. has for the gold, when I was at the diamond mine, I was walking the path up to it when a flash of light hit my eyes and looking down, I saw a small sliver of glass and that was what I figured it was. I never saw diamonds in the rough before. it was waxy, blue green in color and shaped like a tear drop 5/8 " long. stopped at the gas station where all the treasure hunters hanged out. showed the diamond and a lady asked where I found it. when I told her, she said my farm is next to the mine. talk about strange. she said grand dad would go and search for diamonds during the depression. he also melted silver out, behind the barn. he had a place at the back end of the farm that had silver ore. when he died we cleaned out his work shop and found a small bag that had small gold nuggets in it, about 2 ounces. anyway I went there and found two old paths that were covered over with weeds. one seemed to go toward the diamond mine. the other goes along the ridge south and drops down toward the sandy river. that's all I could find on this. I remember over the years and some of you may have seen small stories in the Ashland and Huntington papers about small gold nuggets being found near the bruin boat dock and greenup boat dock. it never ends does it. so much out there, but we never find the one clue that opens the gate.
