DIAMOND MINES OF BRAZIL 205
	for diamond rough and carbon has given a stimulus to the industry, and considerable outside capital has been enlisted in developing new fields or working over the old ones, though some of the new companies formed for that purpose, in the United States especially, have not as yet got much beyond enlisting the capital. Withal, the output of the Diamantina region is given in consular re­ports as averaging about 5,000 carats per month only during 1906.