European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 01, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Approximate location of Many fabulous lost treasures which May be found in the North american continent and environs " by Saul Pett i r it May not be at the end of the Rainbow but enough treasure has been lost at. V sea or cached away by pirates to tempt Many people to venture to recover it of just about every youngster in on period of his adventurous life has set Forth in quest j of burled treasure. More than Likely under the influence of Robert Louis Stevenson he is after Long John silvers Cache hidden bythe base of the Apple tree,.five Hundred paces from the Kitchen door with his mates similarly distinguished As free Boot cars by theut wooden swords Cap pistols and paper hats to stand guard he carries out the delicate operation of unearthing the locker an old tin Tea Box and counting the doubloons Copper pennies the same game As played by grownups is perhaps taken More seriously. It costs Money but the rewards Are greater. Only a few weeks ago mrs. Bul Edmundson Croker 64, widow of a prominent tammany Leader paid a $100fee for state permission to Hunt.76 Mil lion dollars in pirate Gold. She says Shehas two maps which locate the loot in about 25 feet of water approximately40 Miles from Pensacola Florida. Mrs. Croker Plahs to work with j. T con Way a contractor who Only recently was digging for four million dollars in pirate Gold in the Middle of a main Street of Green Cove sri rugs Florida. It was his third attempt in 18 years to.,find this particular Cache but thus farther Street has yielded Only some yellow Metal which proved to be melted brass dropped by some Frankish sailors. Stii the Woods Are full of the  january townsfolk of Monterey California stumbled on $?000 in 50-. Year old Gold pieces in a excavation for a school Annex. Last october Vir Ginia s governor William a. Tuck got a letter from a Man who knows exactly where ten million dollars in Confederate Gold lies buried in that state. However Florida with All its coves. Inlets bayous and Rivers which we reused i the old Days by the pirates is a Gold mine if or legend and who knows perhaps fact for example Morer. Than a dozen Spanish galleons loaded with65-million dollars. In Gold and Silver ingots Sank during  off Long Cay a the year 1715. Perhaps that treasure from the old Spanish empires still there awaiting Only someone adventurous enough and financially sound. ,. It was a Mere two. Years ago that r Irwin a. Williamson searched the Ocean floor off key West for the wreckage of the Spanish Galleon Santa Rosa which. 10 it is said went Down with 30 million dollars in looted Aztec Gold  on the Williamson treasure Hunt told of his coming nearer and nearer. He wreck. Other sources disclosed his returning for better equipment and of arming his ship against possible hijackers. Then came a sudden blackout on Williamson and the Santa Rosa. Some say he discovered his treasure and is keeping his Mouth shut because of the internal revenues and others More sceptical say he dropped his Roll and has gone Back to less adventurous living Florida keeps a list of the places where visitors May seek lost  Palm Beach Che Spanish Galleon Santa Margarita is be teed to have Dis appeared below the surface of the. Ocean with seven million dollars in  the Mouth of the Suvannee River lies a Schooner which had five million dollars in Gold. It Sank in "1020. The. Money came from the United states As indemnity to Spanish citizens of Florida when the government bought the Terri tory. Gasparella. Island is named after a pirate who chose to scuttle his ship. When he. Saw he could t escape an. American warship chasing him. Gas Pari Tai wrapping himself in chains jumped overboard with him went the secret of the million dollars of Booty he is supposed to have hidden on the Island. Off Apalachicola Billy Bowlegs famed associate of Jeato Lafitte dropped beneath the Ocean surface with his ship and millions in Booty made during his Gulf coast marauding Days. He too was retrying to escape from pursuers. A civil War blockade runner went Down at the Mouth of the Steir Ohatchee River with $500,000  bars. Most of that treasure is believed to be still around. Along the Virginia coast Cape Charles to be exact a Ward line ship the Marida Sank in 1911. The vessel which was carrying a Fortune from Vera Cruz is known to lie about 65miles off the Cape in about 200 feet of water. The ship Tiad left Yea Cruz during a revolution and agents of the incumbent government were suppose to have escaped with  bars of. Gold and Silver As Well As the state jewel collect Lon of Maximilian. Three attempts have been made to Salvage the Booty. Among the backers of two searches were Percy Rockefeller and Anthony j. Drexel. Biddie or. Biddle by the Way is now in Germany As a colonel in Euco the last attempt to Salvage the Vera Cruz treasure a made by an italian expedition in 1929. The group spent $100,000 and retrieved one Silver ingot valued at $7.20, bad weather and the War interrupted the Hunt " at Lewes Delaware in 1798, the British warship die Braak capsized and Sank with ten million dollars Worth of Booty taken from Spanish ships. There have been three attempts to Sale Vage the prize without Success. Then in 1930 a storm tossed some Spanish coins on the nearby beaches. A " right in new York town at the. Bottom of the East River in the Treacher Ous currents off 135th Street there should be almost five million dollars in Gold. It seems that in 1790, the 24-gun British frigate Hussar split her Hull on a beef and Sank. Texe dough was the payroll of red Coats fighting against the colonists. In 1936, Simon Lake inventor of the submarine tried his Luck using a Long wide air pressure tube descending from a surface ship to the River Bottom. For two years Lake fought the current Sand thick layers of mud covered 1800 feet of Bronx Shoreline pumped up rivet Heads grate bars Stickpin and even some Silver corns minted after 1900, but none of the British  England has Long been a Happy Hunting grounds for treasure Hunters. Somewhere off Stonington Connecticut. Lies or 17th Century British Privateer defence with thousands of dollars Worth of Booty. Massachusetts has its pirate Hoard. A wac guard named Bellamy is supposed to have buried millions either along the Mach Las River or off Eastham where his ship foundered on a reef. " Maine often associated with the much maligned and notorious Captain Kidd has several places one May seek and yet not find. However Kidd s trea sure has been sought in vain along the Shoreline from Hoboken to Nova Scotia. Jean Lafitte another of the More fabulous. Characters who made a living flying the Jolly Roger from the  of his ships is also supposed to have left his proceeds from his Early nineteenth Century raids along the ult in Many places. It is most commonly believed that he protected his investments by. Burying some in Galveston Island Texas. But it could have been any one of the islands and bayous around new Orleans or Northwest Florida. Or he could have blown it All on some of he ski f feminine companions. It has been Aid Jie had several. California has its share of treasure troves. For instance in the Waters near Crescent  California where the a american Side Wheeler brother Jonathan i Sank in about 1865., the Treasury people say the ship carried -$200,000 in army pay but they insist it wast fall in currency arid by now to Fate salt8 water has ruined it but some still be Lieve the sunken hold contains More and in Gold. Estimates place the value at $800,000. However the West is famous., for its lost mines and Spanish  year the Southwest is the scene of vast treasure Hunts. 4 As Many As 7000 optimists yearly Hunt the Golden millions believed lying Jin the lost dutchman mine in superstition Mountain 36 Miles East of Phoenix Arizona during the 1840s hundred8 were killed by the indians. Since then at least six have been Mur Derevi Hunt the  " a Long the Silver Shoals about Miles North of Ganto dooming front the song of the same nanv., in 1637, Sank a Spanish Fleet loaded to the scuppers with Goldsome 70"million dollars in Gold  stones Are said to have gone under. The last person definitely know Tel to have recovered some of the swag  sea Captain William Phipps in 1887 Cap n Bill dredged up $500,000, Worth of the stuff split the find with his King and for his share the wealth program was made governor of Sach sefts. The Bahamas a calling place in touts would be Worth settling Down in if someone could locate the Gold tar receipts of the haitian emperor Chris. Ophe. On the other hand off the " head of Kinsale on the Irish  be found in Only 600 feet of water. Gold and gems variously estimated Affine million dollars to 15 million Dollar there is however one More plat where  definitely known tha, May be found in Large Quant tie. Somewhat Inland it is nevertheless the Eastern Section Bathe United staf treasure seekers should go along Ohio River on the South Bank. Ave Point Kentucky the Hunters turn South for just about nine Miles. There s a 22 billion dollars in Gold buried 4tait s fort Knox. ,. Wee menu. Hat