DIVING FOR TREASURE.
(Special to Herald.) DUNEWX, this day. The attempt on the part of Mr E. C. May to salvage the treasure of the j Generol Grant has undoubtedly taken definite shape. Mr D. Anderson, of Dunedin, received a cable from Mr May, I dated yesterday, advising that he would positively leave San Francisco on December 16th. In the latest communication by mail Mr May stated that he had been very busy at San Francisco getting together up-to-date machinery for the salvage operations. The moving , pictures would be a special feature. Work was being done m connection "«• it'll these already* find part of the wreck of the General Grant would be ■reproduced on the Pacific Coast. One of thf- divers hnd been drnrn m San Francisco B;v 110 feet, ancl could have, gone <1 own 150 feet and move. Mr May ridded that he might bo a little latev than he expecte' 1 .- Apparently it is his intention to make Bluff the headquarters of the expedition.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13251, 9 December 1913, Page 8
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