The diamond season at Murfreesboro, Ark., opened early this spring when word got around that Fred Wood, a sawmill worker from Chidester. had found a ten-carat stone. It ought to bring $8,000, says Wood, and it is not the only diamond that he has found. "I don't do no digging,'' he says. "I just walk and look." He plans to name his find the Orval E. Faubus diamond, for his state's Governor.
Glittering Pebble. A few diamonds have been found in other parts of the U.S., but they are considered freaks, probably carried long distances by rivers or glaciers. The...
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