Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-04
To Search For Hidden Treasure
MORE THAN A DOZEN NEW COMPA MES ARE FORMING TO GET THE
RICHES THAT LIE UNDER THE WATER,

'That the search for hidden treasure
RUIZ in cycles that are almost as reg
ular as thouse of any comet is a fact that
cannot fail to lave impressed anyone
who has made a study of the question:
said the president of a submarine COM
pany which will search for treasure as a
steady occupation.
while it cannot be denied thai there
are many spots in various parts of the
world that are rich in their stores of pre-
cious metal and that the waters of the
oceans conceal fortunes beyond the
dreams of avarice it is only at intervals
that man sets O ut to make this wealth
his own.
THE reasons for this periodic lack of
interest in such vast sums of money are
not difficult to discover. Men desire
wealth above all things but after a period
of unsuccessful search they become dis
couraged and return to their ordinary
pursuits, remaining in obscurity until
some more fortunate man unearths a
portion of the treasure to find which they
had been striving SO long and so vainly.
AT the present time the world is about
to enter upon another period of search
for buried or hidden treasure. The recent
success of Captain Charles A. Henderson
in locating treasure that had been buried
on an island of the Triston d'Acunha
group in the South Atlantic is the direct
AISpI tIo VI IN Va iiASiSSS AA
this subject, but the successful operation
of the submarine boat has proven an
even more powerful instigator Of a con-
tinuance Of the long deferred search after
this wil~l-o'-the-wisp of wealth.
For generations it has been known that
vast treasure lay on the bottom of the
ocean awaiting a m To find and
claim this gold and silver and other pre-
cious metals and stones was the problem
that baff1ed even the most daring eXplor-
err. Treasure buried upon land. wealth
that might be dug out of a certain num-
Der of feet of earth might possibly be To-
Gated, but when this hoard of wealth was
hundreds of feet under water and no ! u
could be obtained as to its whereabouts
the problem became one that simply
could not be solved.
"When it was some time ago
that Simon Lake had succeeded in &C.
complishing an actual realization of the
vision of Jules Verne by inventing a boat
that could be made either to float on the
top Of the water or run on wheels like a
locomotive on the bottom of the ocean.
treasure hunters caught at the suggestion
and eagerly waited the perfection of the
invention. For two years he worked and
now that he has positively succeeded in
the achievement of his purpose it will
probably not be long before the 'Argo-
a will be called into service to search
for some of the wealth that has been held
within the grasp of the old ocean for so
many years.
The success of M. del POZZo, who has
succeeded in the invention of a diving bell
with which he is even now raising a rich
treasure-trove from the sunken warships
In the Aegean sea, argues we'll for the
success of Mr.. Lakes invention. 1t was
nearly one hundred and thirty years ago
that a famous sea fight took place off
TShpShmp. an ASHatic-T11rkiS h sea pOr
between the Russians and the Turks.
"The Turks were defeated and their
fleet was sunk but not until several Rus
sian vessels had also gone to the bottom.
For years all attempts to raise the treas
ure known to be at the bottom of the
ocean failed, but late last summer an
other effort was made. This time the
new diving bell was used and from al
most the first day the work has been most