The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-14

one autumn, securing ,nly nineteen tons of copper Then Captain Baker of Detroit began operations which re- suited in the recovery of nearly Sl0O,- O00 worth of property.
 Wreck of Dean Richmond. h In 1895 the William Home, loaded with $2O,00O worth of starI billets sank in ninety-six feet O: water off Swishwah Point, Lake Michigan. In 1901 she was raised, one liver being killed in the work and another Lara- lyxed Captain Baker also recovered treasure in steel billets amounting to $s1,0O0 from the Ava Bradley. which sank in deep water of Nor'h Manitoa island. Captain Quinn of Detroit has also recovered many valuable cargoes
 Somewhere along the south shore of Lake Erie, between Dunkirk and Erie, lies a treasure ship which w.il bring d fortune to her lucky discoverer if she is ever found. One night the .Jean Rich mond with $50,O00 worth Of pig zinc on board, mvsteriously disappeared between those two places. Every hand on board was lost and heir bodies were picked up ashore. Tn vain have searching parties spent mucn time and money in the hunt for She lost vessel The IaSL attempt was HidQC the Murphy Wrecking Company of Buffalo, which had a vessel a:.I several divers searching all Of one year without suc- cess.
 Somewhere fin the deep waters of Saginaw Bay lies the steamer Gay, which went down with $20,G0" worth of steel billets. Efforts have been made to locate her. but Ike many other treasure ships fin the great lakes sine iS deaD Hourn that m dsttn, 1i,-C to reach her. Undersea workers can g0 no deeper than 100 feet and work, for. while they can descend to 13O feet, they must rise immediately or suffer d terrible death.
 Lake of Sunken Treasure.
 Near Walnut creek, in Lake Erie, lies the Young Sion with a valuable cargo of railroad iron. Tn the deep, cold water off Point Pelee is also tue Kent, with a small treasure in money in her hulk and the skelet cns of eight human beings in he: cabins Some where between Cleveland and the De- troit river are a deckload of locomo. tives. lost from the Clarior in 1S51. In Lake Huron, in the neighborhood I of Saginaw bay, are said to be more ] lost ships than in any other part oi the great lakes, and for that reason l Huron has frequently been referred to as the Take of sunken treasure" in the days when the country along the bay was filled with lumber camps large sums of money were brought up in small vessels and many of the5D vessels were lost.
 In the deep. water of Saginaw bay it is believed lies the City Of Detroit. which went down in 1873 with abo, !. $h0.000 worth of copper aboard. All | hands were lost and no wreckage If the vessel was ever found The R. G. | Coburn, also laden with copper, sank in 1 the bay in 1871 with a loss of thirty lives. Although searches have been made for her the location of the Co., burn is still one of the unSolved mys | teries of the lakes.
 l Of the treasure which is awaiting discovery in the inland .eas whiskey forms quite a part Scores of vessels with cargoes of liquor have been lost | and while whiskey does not age undet water 1t would be fully as good as when 1t went down.
 l WhisI1ey Worth SI15 q BnrreI.
 In 1s46 the Lexington, commanded | by Captain Peer. cleared from Cleve | land for Port Huron, freighted with 110 barrels of whiskey. In midlake the vessel foundered with all on bo1rd and though sixty years have passed since then she has never been located. Today her cargo of whiskey would be worth $115 a barrel In 1859 the An ] thony Wayne went down in Lake Eris | with 300 barrels of wine and whiskey and five years later the Westmoreland sank near Manitou island with a simi- Jar cargo These are only few of tSe many cargoes of whiskies and wines which are now at the bottom of the | great lakes.
 It is estimated that at the present 1 time there are several hund:ed thous- and dollars worth of coal at the bot tom of the lakes and that the day Is approaching when modern invention will make 1t possible to recover much of this there is little doubt. In To- bermorry bay a device is now being i used which. according to the descr!p- tion of the work, might be employed successfully to bring up cargoes of coal This invention IS long pipe which can be thrust down deeper than divers can work, and which. by means of powerful suction apparatus draws up sand, stones and articles small