Arizona silver belt., 1894-02-17
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This vessel which fountlersd July 80th, 1865, in the Pacific, near Ores cent City Cal, twenty-five miles south of the Oregon hne, %as recently located by tho noted deep sea diver John P Ryan, at greater depth by several hundred feet, than that supposed to have been reached by McGinty on his first and only voyage of discovery to She bottom of the sea, whose requiem fs still signing through the salt waters Of the vicinity where he was last seen, and not infrequently is the mourning dirge heard from lips of female beer isrkers in communities where the in- spring and fruetifying beverage is re- garded as staple article of commerce.
 Ryan, through oupidity, became convert to the story of the gold treas. hfe which he had repeatedly heard from &. ". Hill, survivor of the wreck, and which Hill said aggregated mil Non dollars, and as there was truth iu the observation, the diver had become interested in the story of the old man, who agreed to show him the place where tho catastrophe occurred, for S200. Ryan ascertainod that there was $250, 900 aboard, in charge of Wells, Fargo < Co.,, and $S0, ,000 with the purser, and that Major E. W. Eddy, of the U. S. Army, was passenger on the ill-fated vessel, with about S200,. 900 with which to pay soldiurs at Van couver, Walla Walla and other north western posts. Besides these sums, there was other treasure, which the diver was satisfied would swell the amount to sl 900, 900.
 The steamer had one hundred and sixty-six persons on board, and but nineteen of tha.nbnber escaped, in an open boat before the Brother Jonathan rank beneath the wave.
 Ryan gave peculiar proof of having reached and partially explored the sub merged craft by bringing to the surface ships bucket, upon which was legibly inscribed Brother Jonathnn:" nor was that all, upon reaching the surface, as confrmatiye proof of having sue ceeded in his mission. He says the  ship k well preserved that the hull is intact, and expresses his ability to float her. This, however, appears to be a question of serious dOubt, as the vessel foundered in consequence of striking suRken rock which must have punct- tired' Ter hull, if t did not badly shat ter it, and it is not probable that the hull retains sufficient cohesion to per init of its being again foated The story of the disaster, as graphically told by Mrs. Altrie, of Albany. Oregon, be- heved to be the only living female sur vivor, and published in the San Fran cisco Chroncle of the t1th inst, diseOur- sges the belief that the Brother Jona- than will ever again cleaye the waves She was standing on tue lower deck at the tine wien, as she relates, there was "frightful crash, which threw her violently under the feet of some horses. Tho vessel had also, a short lime previous to the catastrophe, col lided with schooner in the Columbia river, and had not been sufficiently rsPaired, as claimed by Mrs DsWof, widow of the captain of the Brother Jonathan, now living in San Francisco.
 Tie derivated title of that ship is cherished with memories of our colonial war with Great Britain It takes it's rise from the lips of General Washing ton, who addressed Jonathan Trumbull, L. L. D., of Connecticut, as Brother Jonathan" by whom he was highly esteemed, and was frequently consulted by the General, and from this the term Brother Jonathan" grew into use as a name for sse United States govern. ment, now practically obsolete; bui nevertheless, it is feryently hoped that the inanimate ship Brother Jonathan may again awaken from it's Van Wrinkle sleep, breast the wave and in the plen- titude of strength defy the storm.
 Arizona has hneal descendant Sc we are told, of that sturdy New En. glander, Brother Jonathan" in the person of Charles Trumbull Hayden, himself man who has figured promi nsntly in the history of this Territory, and is still thorough going business man of Tempe.
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