Weekly journal-miner., 1918-10-23
ID ATTEMPT THE RECOVERY OF A
 TREASURE SHIP
SALVAGE COMPANY, OR GANIZED BY LOCAL MEN, WILL SEEK TO RECOVER $9,000,000 FROM SUNKEN ALASKAN VESSEL.
(From Tuesdays Daily.)

(From Tuesdays Daily.)
 c. c. Lemmons, one of the princi- pals in the newly-organized Anglo Saxon Salvage Company, formed in this city few weeks ago, stated yes terday that he expects to go to New York City within the next few days and from that port sail for London, England, where he will complete some of the financial arrangements in the interests of the new corpora tion, after which he will return to this city and later go to the Pacific coast to take charge of the salvage work which the company has already mapped out Attorney Richard Lam son and Lyle Sharpnack are among the local people interested in the Anglo-Sa Company.
 The company has been organized for the purpose of putting into use a device invented by Mir. Lemmons for raising sunken ships and recover ing whatever valuable cargoes they may have contained at the time they went down. The first job which the new firm will tackle will be that of raising the ill-fated Canadian Pacific steamer Islander, which was sunk carly in 1904 in the Lynn canal at Juneau, Alaska, entailing a loss of 1, 100 lives and carrying down with 1t Alaskan gold to the value of about S1O,000O0O. The ship, according to Mir. Lennon, is resting on an even keel under 170 feet of water off the north coast, and with the equipment which the new company expects to build, the work of recovering the yes sel and its handsome cargo will be an exceedingly simple matter. The ls- lander. carrying 1000 passengers, set out for Seattle. Most of the passen- gers carried small fortunes in gold dust and nuggets and the express company's safe on board was known to have contained So,000,000 in gold when the ship cleared for the States. As the vessel steamed out of Juneau and headed for the canal, a large iceberg was encountered and the ship was crushed A big dance was in progress at the time of the collision and in the panic that followed the crash, many were trampled to death and only 500 persons were able to get to the boats The sinking oc- 4 ,i.o,,. 1zO Fao+ f-o,,, tIa eborc
 The Canadian Pacific Railroad company, which owned the vessel, spent mar, years and much money in cifCr;s 10 raise the boat or at least .alvagc a part of the gold in the strong boxes. but nothing came of these attempts. Mir. Lennon was present at one occasion when the rail- road company attacked the wreck with a large diving bell, but like all other attempts which had been made, this one proved futile.
 The device which the Anglo-Saxon company expects to put to use in raising the vessel consists of steel drill weighing so tons, mounted on barge. With the drill, hole will be punched through the wrecked ship, and through the hole an um- brella-shaped anchoring device will be thrust, firm grip being gotten on the bottom of the ship and the top connecting line attached to enor- nous pontoons. Three such anchors will be run through each ship and then the lifting power of the pom toons will be put into play and the ship-supposcdly-will come whoop- ing up 10 the surface.
 Mir. Lemmons says that after the case of the Islander is disposed of, the salvage apparatus will be taken 70 the Irish coast in the submarine zone. and many of the sunkcn treas ure ships, the Lusitania included, will be brought to the top again, with the result that that company will become enormously wealthy as result of the yaluab!cs recovered.