The Secret of the Diamond Mine

When Tiffany announced that the gems were real and worth a fortune, the financiers could barely control their excitement. They wired Rothschild and other tycoons to tell them about the diamond mine and inviting them to share in the investment. At the same time, they insisted that a mining expert of their choosing accompanies Slack and Arnold to the site to verify its wealth. Several weeks later, a man named Louis Janin, the best mining expert in the country, met the prospectors in San Francisco. The dig lasted eight days and by the end, Janin was convinced. He told the investors that they now possessed the richest field in mining history.