The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-19
MANY SEARCH The
SEAS FOR GOLD
Some Of the Treasures That
Davy Jones Guards in
His Lockers.
THE U MILLIONS"
Five Well Equipped Expeditions Have
Failed to Run This So-Called
Treasure to Its Lair on the
Tenedos Reefs.

lLOlluOIl 1ll-IbllS. w men DdNy jules
once gets treasures of gold safely into
his locker he guards them more jeal-
ously than any merely human miser.
And yet, as Edgar Allan Poe once
wrote, one might almost trace ones
cay to these sunken boards by the
trail of bones of those who have failed
to find Them" Five expeditions have
failed to run the so-called kruger
millions" to their lair on the Tenedos
reefs, and the last of them cost the
lives of tWenty-eight gallant men.
One might fill volumes with stories
of these rainbow chaserS, many of them
startling and dramatic. No n has
ever yet found the San Pedro, the five
decked Spanish galleon which sank in
the Margarita channel off the Central
American coast ninety-two years ago,
carrying untold millions in gold and
jewels to the bottom OF the sea. There
were two chests which held over e.
100000 in d%oubloons; there We're gold
images n precious stones almost be-
yond number, placed on board for safe
ty. from Catholic churches; and there
were millions of treasure to pay off the
garrisons and Spanish warships along
the American coast.
In all, the treasures of the San Pc
dro were valued at E13,5 500, 900. Syn
dictate after syndicate was formed to
rescue these riches from Davy Jones
clutch: fortunes We're ~SQuandered on
the search. many lives were sacrificed
in the chase, but all to no purpose.
Davy is still gloating over his doub-
looms and golden images as he gloated
first nearly a century ago.
The Hussar.
Then there is the Hussar, an English
man-of-war, which sailed away to the
west in 1880 laden with gold to pay
British soldiers and sailors. 1t is said
the Hussar had nearly 1000, 900
abroad when she ran on a rock and
sank in seventy feet of water, less than
100 yards from the shore of the East
river. For more than a hundred years
one attempt after another has been
made to snatch this treasure from the
deep, but so far not even the locker has
been found.
Not many years after the Hussar dis
appearance under the water of an
American river the sloop Of war De
Braak went to the bottom in a gale
off the Delaware capes. taking with her
a rich spoil of two captured Spanish
galleons laden with gold and gems Of
fabulous value. Governments and pri-
vate individuals have Wed with each
other for half a century in the chase
Of these treasures; but they still re-
main as seductive and elusive a lure
as when Davy first aid greedy hands
on them.
If anyone seeks for treasure nearer
home, 1t is to be found not many miles
from the Lizard. in Cornwall, where
they say, a Spanish galleon with ST.
600, 900 in her hold lies buried under the
sands n rocks where the richly
freighted vessel was battered to pieces
by the fierce Atlantic waves" AL
though many companies have tried in
I-nj1, 4 rnnnI-nr fhiS wv ~ i,o L~n,J
there is no doubt Of it's existence. for
coins are constantly being washed up
by the tide as tantalizing evidence Of
the ichness of the Golfers from which
they have drifted.
Gold Of the General Grant.
Ina cave in the Auckland islands may
still be recovered all the gold that the
good ship General Grant was carrying
when she started in 1856 on her voyage
from Melbourne to London, with a pas
senger list Of miners returning with
their riches from the Ballarat diggings.
Occasionally, when Davy Jones is in
an amiable mood. he will release part
Of his booty. but he takes care to
clutch what remains more tightly still.
When La Lutino, a captured French
frigate. sank under the waves of the
Zuyder Zee, a little over a century ago,
she took $50 bars of gold down with
her, in addition to much silver bullion
and &127,000, the pay of the troops in
Holland. Within a year Of her founder
ing G55,000 a been recovered; fifty
years or more later she gave up an
other $4,000; but on the rest of her
hoard-she was insured for a round
1000, 00O-she still keeps a jealous
hold.
And again-as evidence that Davy
Jones is not quite so bad as he has
been pictured-of the ten boxes Of gold
that went down with the Alfonso XII,
off the Canaries some years ago, nine
have. been recovered. Davy Jones
keeps the tenth.