| Show lumber worth fortune found in river murphysboro Murphy A small fortune in fit walnut logs lost during a blizzard 40 years ngo ago was recently recovered from the big muddy river near here several valuable logs in a pile of driftwood were noted by a group of lumberman and an examination ds disclosed a huge raft lying several feet below the surface in which it Is claimed were over feet of choice walnut logs investigation showed the logs to be the property of a calro cairo who had bad started a raft of them down big muddy 40 years ago A storm sunk the raft and no trace of it could be found at that time they were worth 40 per thousand feet the logs are in an excellent state of preservation |
