Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-07-25 | Page 29 | Old Wrecks Harbor Gold

OLD WRECKS HARBOR GOLD GOLDSen Sen Sea c Sunk Mink Treasures Worth orth Million Millions Round the tho South African coast are arc about twenty wrecks which It is reckoned reckoned reckoned reck reck- would yield in salvage I Among t these ese wrecks are arc the troopship supposed to contain 1000 in gold the tho Thermopylae wrecked In 1898 with an unknown number of ot silver bars on board the Wilhelm der Secunda with a pirates pirate's tes te's treasure In her hull the a tl merchantman merchant merchant- man belonging belong to tho the Netherlands et erlanda government government government gov gov- the lost In 1898 and tho the most interesting if not tho most valuable wreck of or ah all the Dorothea Dorothea Doro Bore thea which left heft Delagoa bay at the end of or 1895 with gold old valued at on board and went n doyn ot off Cape In Zululand Various attempts have been made mado to reco recover r this treasure but only a n small part has hns been retrieved cd the bulk still waiting for enterprising sea searchers For hundreds of or years car the tho belief has prevailed that gold dust and gems ems to I the value of lie burled buried at atthe atthe the bottom of ot the sacred lake of ot Gus- Gus tavita ta In Colombia a tl territory once I occupied by b Indian tribes renowned renown cd for tor their tabu fabulous OUS wealth and man many at attempts attempts attempts at- at tempts have been made to drain the thc lake without success The lake was emptied in 1903 but it kept refilling on account of at the heavy rains and the presence of oC springs A certain number of ot Jewels jewele and ornaments ornaments ornaments orna orna- ments found In the mud o of the lake bed seemed to Indicate that tho the search for hidden tre treasure iUro was to prove success success- ful Then the mud dried hard and a afresh afresh afresh fresh difficulty difficult was thus encountered Ever er since Inco the engineers have been continuing continuing con con- tinning operations but no further treasure has come to lI light ht After Arter an outlay of or some somo It was decided to abandon the tho hunt It H remains to tobe tobe tobe be seen soen wh whether ther an anyone one else will take up th the search TIt Tit I MEAT lADE When boiling tou tough h meat put Into tho the pot lOt a a. tablespoonful or two t of oC pure vinegar It will usually render it tender tender tender ten ten- der and good It acts the same wa way on fowl Cowl If If H. be before Core plucking a fowl It Is placed In a basin of ot water with a n piece of ot soda about tho the size of ot a 11 walnut for about a minute or two the feathers will come out easily no matter how ho old the fowl rowl ma may be and the meat will be tender and white