Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-15
SOME TRzAsURE TRovE.

The finding Of a sovereign coined in
the reign of the first Hanoverian king of
England, together with two bars of ell
yer tarnished by the action of sea water,
leads up to the belief that the dredgers
and submarine toilers of New York are
not far from the foundered bonanza of
the British man-of-war Hussar, wrecked
in the strait known as He'll Gate, not
far from Blackwell's island, just after
the revolution. The treasure on board
the lost ship, it is claimed, amounted to
q quarter less five millions of dollars,
most of which was in gold.
Searches for this lost treasure have
been instituted Vt intervals during the
past sixty years, with varied success. In
1928 French engineer named Henri
Maillefert, accompanied by Russian
engineer named Raaslof, made for
tune by blasting out several reefs in
that narrow channel, and equandered it
all in a search for the lost treasure of
the Hussar. Nothing ever came to re-
ward him for his efforts in that direc-
tion. In 1876 party resumed the work
about sixty yards from where Maille-
fers abandoned his work and succeeded
in finding thirty guineas, at cost of
nearly $1,000. The capitalists who were
backing the enterprise, grew weary of
the Fenian dividends and abandoned
the undertaking.
The company now engaged in this
work has as it's superintendent, Captain
Thomas Symonds, who was at one time
at the head Of dredging operations on
the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
He has in his outfita powerful dredging
machine called the "Little Giant" His
operations have been going on for nearly
three months, but up to Friday
last, he had met with no success what
ever. The finding Of the coin argues
nothing, but bringing up the two bars
of silver, which are probably Of not less
than twenty pounds weight, would in
dicate that he has pretty nearly reached
the goal Of his ambition.
There are other searches for treasure
to which Captain Symonds can turn bis
attention later on, should his efforts
in this quarter prove successful.
On the 26th day of July, 1866.
the steamer Brother Jonathan, Of
the California Steam Navigation
company's line, bound from San
Francisco to Portland, was sunk about
FIVE miles off the coast, nearly abreast
Of Rogue river, which empties into the
Pacific ocean just gorth of the California
boundary line. Among her passengers
were Gen. George Wright, U. S. A., and
Col. E. w. Eddy, paymaater of the de-
partment Of the Pacific: The latter
! gentleman had in his possession some
$S0. 1000 in legal tender notes to pay off
the troops in Oregon and Washington.
These, of course, were destroyed by the
action of salt water, but there was also
on board shipment Of gold coin some
what in excess of $260.OO0. The placer
mines Of Florence and the Boise basin
were then yielding enormously, and the
coin was being sent up to the banks in
Portland and Walla Walla for the pur-
chase of gold dust. Repeated searches
for the wreck of the ill-fated ship have
been made. without success, at various
times. In addition to this amount,
there was probably not less than 1000
in the hands of passengers. All this will
be handsome reward if Captain
Symonds can only find it.
Beside these submerged bonanzas,
there is the treasure supposed to
have been buried somewhere about
twenty miles east of New York by Capt.
Robert Kidd, the notorious pirate. And
off the Cocos islands, on the coast of
Lower California, large amount Of
money is said to have been concealed in
the earlier part Of the present century.
If Captain Symonds RECEIVERS couple
of millions from the mud that surrounds
the hull of the Hussar his hackers may
feel disposed to expend little of their
gains in searching for the Inflated
Brother Jonathan.