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Show Kidd's Treasure Is Searched for With Bulldozer Fabulous Riches Supposed Buried by Old Pirate Long a Mystery. MAHONE BAY, NOVA SCOTIA. With a bulldozer, an American again has sought to hit a possible buried treasure jackpot which has eluded generations of pick-and shovel wielders. The Oak island story began in 1795. Three young men found a great oak there, with marks on a branch indicating a block and tackle had been fastened to it. Underneath Un-derneath was a depression in the 1 grass 13 feet in diameter. They started digging. Since 1795, treasure hunters have probed the earth of tiny Oak island for the fabulous buried silver cache i ol Captain Kidd. Now Jacob Faulk-enham, Faulk-enham, an Andover, Me., lumberman, lumber-man, is employing a bulldozer in a new search. New Yorker to Try. Later in the summer Edward Reichart of New' York is expected to turn up with a technical crew, bulldozers and other heavy equipment. equip-ment. Reichart recently made a survey of the island a dot of land one mile long and a half-mile wide in the bay which once was the haunt of pirates and said he would be back later. Captain Kidd, according to local records, was a frequent visitor to this part of Nova Scotia. He was arrested in Boston in 1699 and hanged in London in 1701. Many pirates used Mahone bay as a headquarters. The name Mahone Ma-hone comes from a French word for a pirate craft. Ten feet down was a layer of oak planks. Ten feet farther, a second oak layer; at 30 feet, a third. The work was too tiresome for the trio, and digging was stopped. Six years later a company was organized, or-ganized, and the hole was extended to 90 feet, each 10 feet disclosing a protective layer one of charcoal another of putty. Flood Fills Pit. At 95 feet, they found a flat stone bearing a curious inscription. Some said it read: "Ten feet below, two million pounds lies buried." The diggers hit a solid wooden platform, and then an overnight flood filled the pit with water. They sank another shaft, but water seeped, into it from the first. Half a century later, another expedition ex-pedition sent a boring apparatus into the water. The bore went through the platform and some metal, 22 inches deep. The effort jndermined the bottom of the shafts, and mud and water covered the "treasure." In 1896 there was another try. Twenty shafts were sunk. In 1912 water defeated another enterprise. Four other expeditions, including a costly one last year, also failed. |