Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1913 — DIVER DISCOVERS FORTUNE [ARTICLE]

DIVER DISCOVERS FORTUNE

Finds Ship Loaded With Tin Bullion Valued at $50,000, of Which He Will Get Half. Tacoma, Wash.—The cannery schooner Sadie F. Caller, lost at sea eighteen years ago, has been called back from the port of missing ships. Walter McCary of this city, a submarine diver, stumbled upon the vessel in sixty feet of water near Chignik lagoon, Alaska, recently, and is preparing to take out ot-the wreck nearly $50,000 in tin bullion with which

she is laden. He is on his way back to Alaska to salvage the cargo of the Caller. McCary was placing a fish trap when he found the wreck. Scraping away the weeds and barnacles, he Aincovered her name board, but kept his own counsel when he returned to the surface. Investigation showed the schooner had cleared from San Francisco for the canneries eighteen years ago and foundered off the Alaska coast at a point far from her present resting place. McCary reached an agreement with the owners and consignees under which he will get 50 per cent of the salvage.