Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-21
SCIENCE HUNTS FOR
BURIED TREASURE

BERKELEY. Cal-Modern science
| has gone on the trail of that ever
alluring will O the wisp-buried
| treasure.
| for treasure troVe in modern times
| is on.
Linking it with the gripping old
tales of fiction is the character. of
the lone prospector,, picking his way
rial Valley, there to stumble upon
that good friend of all treasure
|, tales--the time-faded papers. pre-
served in a roll of animal skin.
But right, there all connection
, end, and the tale swings into its
modern path at the University of
| California here with Professor Her
bert E. Bolton, of the department
of history, as chief character.
| Into the office of Professor Boil
| ton there came the other day John
| Mayeroff, a young prospector, with
| a record of more disappointmentS
| than successes to his history. Maye-
! rolf brought with him three faded
| had made almost illegible the writ
| ing-all done in Spanish-and the
crude chart that one of the bits of
paper bore.
Il was prospectin' down in the
Imperial Valley, way down. in the
1 found thise thing underneath a
big rock" the prospector explained
| simply. 81 took it to the village of
Pothole and some fellows translat-
ed it and said it was a chart to
some buried treasure"
Mayeroff was skeptical. Fate had
| fooled HIM too often. He had been
told that Prof. Bolton was one of
| the foremost experts on early Span
ish exploration in the world, so he
111d n hi
And right there and then science
went on the trail of buried treas
| ure.
With all the equipment of a great
| university laboratory at his COM
nand, the professor went to work.
| The phOtomicrograph, the chemistry
| room, the microscope and other tools
| of the scientist were brought into
play and soon the writings were
At the end Professor Bolton an
nounced the documents to contain
one of the most interesting tales
| that had ever come to his atten-
ton. Even though no treasure is
| found he declared the papers to be
| Of inestimable historic value.
| SO Mayeroff is back in the south
eastern end of California today. with
Il party of friends, hunting for land
! eagerly seeking enough gold to
| weigh down the backs of sixty horses
| and mules"
| And behind him at the univer-
| sity is thrilling story of the early
| fifties of the Sixteenth century
which tells of a lost expedition which
| set sail from Spain in 1853 and
travelled through North America: of
! how the party fell in with some
Frenchmen who were lost and with
out supplies; of how the two par
ties combined and in pursuing their
explorations, discovered fabulous
wealth.
Sixty horses and mules were
loaded down with gold and silver
from the mine. and the expedition
resumed its march. An encounter
with Indians followed which result
| ed in every member of the party
| being slain, but not until the treas
ure was buried and minute direc-
| lions for it's recovery and the loca-
tion of the mine written and buried
| under a rock
Professor Bolton declares there is
no question of doubt as to the gem
uineness of the documents; they are
written in old Spanish on Sixteenth
century paper and bear every proof
| Of GenuinencsS.