Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1919 — GOLD IN GRIP OF NEPTUNE [ARTICLE]

GOLD IN GRIP OF NEPTUNE

Hope Renewed That Millions Los£ z lfi Treasure Ships May Bo Brought to the Surface. Somewhere in the sea off the coast of Zululand lies the ship Dorothea, which went down on Tenedos reef, carrying with her, so some people believe, part of the fortune of Oom Paul Kruger, once president of the Transvaal, and rumorhas it that plans are afoot to fit out a British expedition in the hope of salvaging her. The war has Improved methods of salvaging sunken ships, and, If the Dorothea really carried It; the gold cemented Into the hold of the vessel has been estimated at over $8,000,000. Before the war a syndicate was organized to attempt recovery of the vessel, and unsuccessful efforts were made to locate her; now the project is again posttine has accumulated so many treaeUre ships which are again under dlacusslon. A list recently published Includes: The Grosvenor, lost on the Pendoland coast, with $8,750,000; the Ariston, In Marcus bay, with $4,000,000; the Birkenhead, on Birkenhead reef, with $8,900,000; the Dorothea, on Tenedos reef, with $3,250,000; the Abercrombie, with $900,000; the Merestein, with $700,000, and the Thunderbolt, with $2,750,000. If a sunken treasure enterprise falls of one treasure ship, perhaps it can find another. So far, however, the sea has proved a miser with the gold It has acquired; may the modern Improvements In salvaging equipment change the habit.