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Show I'PiTES' BOIES' LEAD TO SEARCH GALVESTON, Texas, Sept. 7 Searchers nfler burled silver on the malnlard opposite Pete Island, 13 miles southeast of Corpus Chrlstl. Tex., probably are doomed to dlsippolnt-ment, dlsippolnt-ment, in the opinion of Dr. J. O. Dyer, a lical writer on historical and Scientific subjects. The rush of treasure treas-ure seekers began with the discovery recent ly of '!' skeletons, popularly believed by many to be those of members mem-bers of the erevv of a Spanish treasure ship which foundered off the Texas coast early In the Eighteenth century. No record is available of any such wreck. The life" of a skeleton buried In the sands of the beaches of the i o.ijt-nl o.ijt-nl country, Dr. Dyer points out. is not over 4 0 years. Be Bays, also treasure ships from Mexico to Spain were discontinued if' r 1820, partly because of the ait i tivitles of Jean Lafflto's fleet of buc-I buc-I cancers. Even before that time the Spaniards tried tO" avoid eesslve losses from storms and Lafflte's fDet of buccaneering bucca-neering vessels and .) Spaniards trans- ported less than 2t toriM of silver bullion to the vessel. Then, the current cur-rent Kite In Mexleo was approximately j sin a troy pound. The most valauble 'of all fiafflte'S prizes. the Sevilla, cbrrled only $15t.000 in specie. 1. 'littles captured treasure, according accord-ing to the records extant, was buried 10 three Caches. Two qX thcse were located on Galveston Island and the ihlrd on a small island to the east, which was completely washeJ away jlurmjc a storm In 1(29 There have been many reports of the discovery on this coast of caches of ("ui or chests from trading : hips containing con-taining from $n,000 to MO, 000. |