Charles
W. Schafer found one stone weighing 0.81 metric carat in the Tolkey
mine, Texas Hill, which was sold to John Cook. No date given.
In
1878 Frederick Bendfeldt, sr., found one canary-colored stone weighing
0.45 metric carat at Smiths Flat, which was sold to W. F. Alma, of
Boston.
In 1879 Edward Randall found one white stone in the Wisconsin Flat mine, which weighed 0.13 metric carat.
In 1894 Frederick Bendfeldt, jr., found one stone weighing 0.96 metric carat, canary color, which was sold to W. F. Alma.
In
1896 Bert Carpender found two white stones weighing, respectively,
1.92 metric carats and 0.26 metric carat; also one canary-colored stone
weighing 1.67 metric carats. They were sold to W. F. Alma.
In 1896 Thomas Murdock found one yellow stone weighing 1.07 metric carats at Smiths Flat, which was sold to W. F. Alma.
In 1897 Snow Bros, found one white stone weighing 1.54 metric carats near Newtown.
In
1897 Snow Bros, found one canary-colored stone weighing 0.97 metric
carat near Fairplay. It is now in the possession of George Richardson
of Placerville.
In
1899 Bert Carpender found one white stone weighing 0.65 metric carat in
the Stanley mine, Smiths Flat. It is now in the possession of W. P.
Stanley.
In
1900 Frederick Bosworth found one white stone weighing 1.46 metric
carats, in Cedar Ravine, at Placerville. Bosworth, of Placerville,
still has this stone in the rough and has been offered $80 for it.
In
1901 J. Allen found one white stone in Cedar Ravine, at Placerville,
weighing 0.42 metric carat, which was sold to W. F. Alma.
In 1912 Bert Carpender found one white stone weighing 0.97 metric carat, in the Carpender mine, at Prospect Flat.
About
1874 two diamonds were found at Smiths Flat, one weighing 0.10 metric
carat, which was purchased by F. F. Barss from a Chinaman, and the
other weighing 0.13 metric carat, which was bought by Mr. Barss from a
white miner. Mr. Barss is quoted as saying that in the seventies and
eighties he mounted five stones in breastpins and two in finger rings
for different people, all of which were good diamonds and were found in
the vicinity of Smiths Flat. Mr. Barss states that another good stone
was found by Henry Ash-croft in 1869.
N.
H. Burger says he cut and set in finger rings from 1906 to 1910 five
diamonds that were found by different persons in the gravel of the
Neocene river channels between Placerville and Smiths Flat. The stones
ranged from 0.1 to 1 metric carat, and one was a fine stone of about
0.36 metric carat. About the year 1913 he set in a finger ring for
Frank Jones a diamond of about one-half carat, which Jones had found in
his gravel in Chile Ravine, just south of Placerville.
