The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-04

ments is located and how they may be
discovered and made to disgorge their
treasures. These blue prints came into
my possession in a perfectly natural
way, but were delayed in transmission
nearly three years, so that when I did
receive them there remained no posi-
biilty of fulfilling the trust that had
been imposed upon me, and. besides
there was a saving clause among the
documents which bestowed the wealth
absolutely upon me in the event of
certain contingencies happening. Every
one OF those contingencies had arisen
before I received the documents and
tracings, and in addition to that the
vessel which contained the treasure
mad never been spoken or heard from
since she started on her voyage TO New
York say never heard FROM that is
however, not strictly true, since a mart
I Of her crew were picked up and saved
by tramp steamer bound for China.
These men reported the total wreck of
their vessel, the loss of their officers
and half the crew. and their own mar
row escape from death. It WAS with
great delight that 1 got trace of them,
and subsequently became convinced
that the treasure ship had gone to the
/ bottom
Not very long ago it happened by
accident that 1 examined one Of the
! ot1eial photographic reports. and there
l saw the name of this very vessel. as
/ describing one Of the hundreds of dere-
ilcts which are floating about the seas
as constant menaces to navigation"
You have thus far neglected to men
ton the name of this derelict," inter
posed Darlington quietly, but not with
out irony.
BE patient" was the quick response.
/ FOR since l have chosen to relate the
| story l will tell it all. She was called
the Sallie Johnson of Yarmouth. When
she entered the South American port.
from which she subsequently, sailed
laden with gold, but ostensibly with a
cargo of fruits and spices. consigned to
my house, of which l was at that time
the head, she had been purchased and
fitted up expressly for a treasure shin.
Her original officers and crew We're
discharged, we'll paid for their consent
TO foregO the shipping articles they had
signed. The name of the vessel-she
was bark-was changed to La PaIo-
ma, and under that name she cleared
| for New York. although the formalitv
Of painting her former name and port
of hatling was neglected, and as a de-
relfct, which she now is, she is known
by the name which she bore when she
/ left the stocks and glided down the
ways at Yarmouth. The United States
| photographic office records her as the
Sallie Johnson. Does that EXPLANATION
/ satisfy you?"
I Quite so, Mr.. Gregory Your infor-
| nation seems to be exact 1t will.
| however, be difficult to locate her. if.
indeed. she still floats. When was IL
did you say, that she was last report
ed?"
/ About six months ago.
| Where was she at that time?"
/ The capitalist took memorandum
! from his pocket. and after studying ii
for a moment. read aloud as follows
." 'Derelict, Sallie Johnson, reported by
Captain Graham of the steamer Scor-
pion, bound from Buenes Ayres to
/ Liverpool. In the tail-end of a gale
nOr'east by east. still raging at number
| five" sighted dereIict about four bells
in the morning watch. Dec. 13 No OBJ
servation except dead reckoning for
three days. Location of derelict prob
! ably Il degrees 20 minutes w. long. Is
| degrees. 10 minutes lat. Plainly saw
name Sallie Johnson, Yarmouth. az
she pitched in the heavy seas. Derelict
headed due west, but owing TO the
gale making sternway almost to lee
| ward. Decks awash. Hull COMPARE
lively buoyant. If gale continues, in
my opinion, she viii make the Sara
gOsSa sea and disappear There. cap
| tain you have a literal copy of the last
report concerning her. l have the hy
geographic official tracings of her sun
posed wanderingg since she became a
Gerehct, during which time she has
covered approximately 5000 miles over
a Ziz-zag course between the Caribbean
sea on the west. the neighborhOod Of
the Azores on the east, lat, As degrees
on the north and the margin of the
SaragOssa sea on the south. Some
| where within those boundaries T be-
Eeve that we will find her if she is still
aloat. unless, indeed she has lost her
self among the weeds and debris of the
Saragossa region. And, man." he ex-
claimed, leaping to his feet with more
excitement than he had yet shown.
I'VE must penetrate even there, IL need
be- to find her."
'Humphl" said Captain Darlington
complacently leaning back in his chair
and emitting a volume of smoke worthy
of the funnel of a man-of-war. Have
you any idea what the Saragossa sea
is like? DO you know how impossible
it is { penetrate il. or having penetrdt-
ed it, to escape again into the open sea
f-If your Sallie Johnson has found en-
trance there, s5.0O0,0e0 is too small a