Table of Contents

Introduction

BACKGROUND OF DISCOVERY

John Huddleston's Crystals

SAM REYBURN AND THE ADC, 1906-1932

From Caution to Overconfidence

Surface Bonanza

A Challenge for Experts

Speculative Heyday, 1907-1912

MM Mauney's Ill-fated “Boomtown”

Mauney and the Beginning of Recreational Diamond Mining

The ADC's Dilemma

A Test for Truth Tellers

Evasive "Big Ones"

Financial Doldrums :  The ADC, 1912-1919

The First Big One

THE ADC AND THE ARKANSAS DIAMOND CORPORATION, 1919-32

The Big Test

Lee Wagner's Heyday

The Big One

Pride, Suspicion, and Taxes

Inactivity and a Change of Leadership, 1926-1932

John T. Fuller's last Stand, 1929-1931

Final Sluicing and Financial Loss, 1931-1932

THE NORTHEAST SLOPE, 1906-1940

The Enterprising Mauneys

Battling in the Courts, 1913-1920

The 1920s: Financial Plight and Promotional Morass

The British-American Company: a Scheme That Might Have Succeeded

A Final Deal and Final Justice

The Ozark Venture

The Ozark Diamond Mines Corporation

Testing the Properties

Disclosures of Bankruptcy

The Millars and the Kimberlite Company, 1908-1939

The Mauney Lease, 1912-

Attempt to Take Over the ADC, 1914-1915

Reprieved by the Ozark Purchase

Reprieve:  The Great War, 1917-1918

Fiery Ending and a Revealing Testimony

A New Speculative Heyday:  The “Roaring ‘20s”

Dealing With “Conspirators” and Other Dealers

An Act of Desperation:  The Bribery Scheme

The Consolidated Mining Corporation and Financial Ruin , 1927-1939

THE 1940s:  FURTHER DISAPPOINTMENTS

George Vitt's Analysis

North American Diamond Corporation and Trust A

The U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1943-1944

Martin's Diamond Corporation of America

A NEW WAVE OF DIAMOND FEVER

The Last Private Ventures

Transition to Recreational Mining

The Diamond Preserve of the United States

The Crater of Diamonds

The State Park and the Era of the Diamond Diggers

Promotional Maneuvering and a Final Test