The Press., 1917-02-22

{ DISlm1SG ITOIu u1U lD see AuC tlAkOu@h I witlg any legitimate undertaking.
 Tt was not so easy to get the million l oire ireman to take any stock In a | treasure hunt. It was not, he said. so l murh the amount of money involved, i hecause that wasn't much, but he hated to be mixed up in any scheme that looked fishy This buried treas
 urc hase would get around and hurt ] his standing, he thought. i "SuDpose we leave it this way pro pnsal Grover-''Packard and 1 will make a set of soundings and explore inc ground thoroughly. If we find the oll boat where he says she Is we'll see what you think about the matter | then.''
 "All right, Grover: you find the boat l and will come pretty near underwr1t- i ing this enterprise. My opinion is that vou will find nothing stronger than pocd rich Missouri bottom mud" r. "Au right, sir" said Grover cheer fully. q know you are from Missouri, anl if am not able to show you all IictS are off"
 "C'ome on, Packard" called Grover. whirling on his heels; Tets get busy!" The next morning found Grover and Packard on the way to the scene of operations in a. blackboard with lot of stuff the youfg man had borrowed
 from the local government engineer.
 For five miles they followed the river
 road and then struck off over a wagon 't"ail through the brush toward the
 bluffs.
 Il can find my way to the place in the dark" said the old man, all excite
 nent. We will be on the ground in three minutes.
 '"There, do you see that curving ridge in front of us? That's the bank of the old bend, now all filled in with the overflow of mud from the river. Here is the stake at the intersection of the two ranges. You can gamble that the old General is right under us this minute and the yellow boys as good as they were when put aboard in '54."
 Now show me the ranges" said Grover '"They are of the utmost i'm rortance."
 One, showed Packard, lis the line through that point of rock above the railroad cut and the gap in the bluffs back of St. Mary's. Do you get that:"
 Yes" said Grover. "And the Other?" @ l"rhe other range is not quite so YooI It's the head of that bend on the Iowa bank, on line with the high point of the bluff beyond. Do you Itch it?'
 .''I have it such as it is," said Grover. and We will get right on the job and see if we can punch the General the first crack"
 Grover produced q bunch of steel sounding rods from the wagon, and carefully plumbing one had Packard hold it perpendicular at the stake, while with a few blows of maui he sank it level with the ground.
 That's five feet" he said and screw cd on another section, sinking that the sane way. If I strike rock we can tel by the metallic sound, and if We run against wood there will be no difficulty in telling that by the feel if lt.''
 In few minutes a dozen lengths were sent down sixty feet, and no wood was found. ~ Old Packard looked disappointed.
 Grover saw that the uncertainty lay in the second range and that the )nlY way was to explore a wide ter ritOry systematically.
 This was to be done by laying out | section of ground like a checker board, with a stake at each corner of Ahe squares, and probe at one stake after another until they struck the hull. If not then, to lay out another set of squares and in that way ex- hauSt all possible territory.
 They sounded the next day, and the Hexr, and the next. Nearly at the end of a week of prOdding the rod struck wood, and Packard did horn pipe on the spot.
 The next morning Grover brought down three husky laborers and had several soundings going on at once Tn this way he was able in time to lay out on the ground the exact form lEd position of the hull. Packard was sure that the strong room in which the treasure lay was in the center of the boat, and of course this was eas-
 
 It took a good deal of argument to persuade the big iceman to make the journey to the "jOb," but one day when Grover managed to get him down there and explained the whole scheme he became as enthusiastic as the oth- CTS and offered to back the work to the limit
 On that the real work of raising the | gold began, and this is how it was the ground covering the position of the strong room. Then inch and a halr l pipes, coupled up in proper lengths to | reach the hull or to go past it at the | sides, were forced down through sotr. l mud and quicksand, making something l like circular iron. fence. Outsideathis another and another ring of pipes. | upright like the first, makins | in all three concentric iron pipe fences, 1 the strong room.
 These pipes were closed at their low CT ends, and the upper ends had d special fixture upon them, so that a small inside pipe could be inserted for the full length of the larger tube and all the. pipes connected up in series The object of this was to provide a continuous course for the flow of mixture to be pumped up and town, up and down throughout the whole circuit of the pipes
 A portable refrigerating plant was brought down from the icemaking eS- set up and started. At the end of week, with the outfit working night and day with two small t. ..= |,. |