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Show TEST NEW METHOD OF RAISING TREASURE BURIED IN THE SEA i. sand by means of large suction pumps. Now a new apparatus. Invented hy a Dutch engineering firm. Is being tried It does away lth the suction process and substitutes hydraulic pressure. A tube Is driven Into the sand and steel grsppler at the bottom selr.e any objects ob-jects bonenth It. The machine can work In any weather that Is not too rough for the salvage vessel to be out During three dsya that the new apparatus ap-paratus worked recently no gold bars were raised, but Indications sre certain, cer-tain, according to the Inventors, that the right spot bas been struck and hopes ere entertained that the rest of the Lutlne's precious cargo, estimated st between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000, soon will be wrested from Davy Jones' locker. Inventors Strive to Regain Gold Cargo Which Went to the Bottom In 1799. Terwbelling, Holland. A new proc ess for salvaging sand burled treasur-of treasur-of the gold cargo of the British frlgiif" Lutlne, which has baffled a century's efforts has Just been put Into opera tlon here with every promise of sue Cess. The Lutlne was wrecked nn a 'smnri bank near this Mand during a violent gnle In the night of October 9. 1799. I' crew of more than 400 perished. t cargo consisted of several million dol lars worth of sold bar ond specie. Fifty feet of sund covers the wrerk and repeated efforts have resulted In the recovery of only about $300,000 anil the ship's bell, now at Lloyds In London. Lon-don. At first diver were put to work, but later machinery was used to get st the wreck through the thick layer of , |
