Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1914-07-27
AND THEY DUG
AND THEY DUG
Regular Land Rush to the
Sandy Spot Where Treas
ure Was Hidden-Great
Fun for Hundreds Of Fun
Seekers at Riverside.

Anybody doubling the lure of the
mines should have been a spectator at
the treasure hunt yesterday afternoon.
The announcement that a large sum of
money would be buried in an easily
accessible spot and would become the
property of any person finding it drew
an immense crowd and was responsible
for one of the most remarkable scenes
ever witnessed in this part Of the
country.
Throughout the morning the roped
off space where the treasure" lay
buried was the center of interest and
as the afternoon drew along and the
time for opening it to the public ap-
preached hundreds of people in, and
out of, bathing suits crowded around
waiting for the ropes to be removed
| Ten minutes before the time announced
i for the hunt to begin there was wild
mob struggling to be first over the line
| and this kept growing until the last
| minute.
The announcer called off the flying
minutes and then the seconds; no one
heard the call to begin: when the
count got down to five seconds there
was one wild Whoop and mad rush to
! dig. No sand storm that ever hit the
valley ever raised a greater cloud of
| dust than went up when the excited
hunters hit the dirt A great cloud of
| sand forty feet high rose above the pool
| at Riverside that covered the workers.
i 49,
| that the beach would provide ample
| room for the hunters to dig in comfort;
! but the crowd could not find room
| enough to move and were covering
each other much faster than they un-
covered the cash
In less than minute someone found
a dollar and yelled his triumph and
Immediately there was wild STAN
pede for that particular patch of sand
which he was working. Soon the yells
were coming from all quarters of the
beach as the finds began to come
quickly and the crowd milled to and
fro like a herd Of frightened steers
Dollars and dimes and pennies, gate.
bath and dance tickets began to show
on every hand and then the spectators
who We're not in bathing suits took a
hand 1t mattered not to them that
they were barred by the statutes of
| limita tons: they saw the treasure for
themselves and they were bound to
have part in it. Don't think it was
| only the kids that took a hand, men.
| women and children We're down on
their hunkers digging for dear life and
having a grand and glorious time in do
| ing it
1t wasn't only fun; there was whole
| lot of profit, Dick Hefflin caught one Of
the season tickets while Frank Moakes
and George McEnnis each drew a five
dollar gold piece, hundreds Of others
were lucky in varying amounts and it
| is a certainty that when the next treas
| ure hunt comes off in a couple of weeks
| Riverside will be the most densely
| populated spot in the southwest.
| Owing to the final concrete work on
the new outlet gates having to be done
| tomorrow: there will be no swimming
| in the big pool until the evening The
water will not be turned in until Well
| diltl NUN anu IL VIII bOl w uVV u
enough for swimming until around
supper time After this. however, there
will be no shallow days. The pool will
be emptied and cleaned every Sunday
and Thursday night and with the in
| creased facilities for emptying and fill
F, ling the huge tank there will be deep
water at all times during bathing
hours hereafter.
! There is not swimming pool any
where in the country where one can
find cleaner water than at Riverside; 1t
is not only emptied and cleaned from
top to bottom twice every week; but
the great flow of fresh water that is
| pumped into it at the rate of eleven
| hundred gallons every minute COM
| pletely renews the contents of the tank
more than three times every two days
| There will be a complete change OF
| bill in the movie theater tonight.