SEARCHING THE SEA FOR GOLD

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1639, 18 August 1887, Page 3

SEARCHING THE SEA FOR GOLD

A correspondent writing from Philadelphia, on June 18th, says. — A party of t'ei3nro seekers, baokod by several Philadelphia capitalist, have chartered the schooner William P. Orr, for a period of six m> nthß to look for 9,00 D,OOO Spanish doubloon*, which they assert are buried off the Delaware capes on the Engliah privateer De Braak, which sank m 1798. A London lawyer has been at work for six months past m looking up from English reoords m London the full particulars of the foundering of the Brnak, and has furnished to the parties interested the minutest details of the o aft It seems that the vcbbbl bad been privateering on the Spanish main an 1 had captured two galleons loaded with the precious coin which was lodged m the lookers of the De Braak for »hipment to England. The vessel foundered In a gale, however, before she o juld make tho Delaware oapea m safety. Experienced divera, with all the necessary Apparatus, steam boilers, pumps and a party of ten men, Kill accompany the sohooner, and work will be started immediately. A powerful tug will be ohartered to remain by the schooner to tow her to the D hware Breakwater when the sea shall become too heavy for work and to assist m moving tho divers aboat m their work m the water, whioh is not less than fifty feet deep.