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NEW HAVEN EVENING REGISTER, NEW HAVEN
APRIL 30, 1883
TREASURE ROVE
CONN
SYNACUSE, N.Y. APRIL 30 - Sat April 22 Town Alburgh, Vermont on Lake
Champlain laborer was plowering in a field on shore of lake D owned by
Henry Mott turned up 3 spanish silver dollars reported find to Mott, in co
with Mr. Kelly 9
wen tto place and searched and found 40 additional
[AD] silver pieces varying values 10 to $1 early peices 1739 1740 except 2
pieces date 1779 all well preserved figures and some plain. Gold piece
about size of $2.50 piece and well worn and dated 1729. Monday 100 men and
boys of town digging in field Theory portion of finds of paymaster vessel
lost in 1779 generally supposed been scuttled by crew and mutined and
killed officers.

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NO BURIED TREASURE
I implore you to refuse any
more advertising for the "electronic
detector" to find "buried treasure,"
which you have in the August issue.
I do not believe you know what harm
and injury the nitwits who use these
devices have caused.
They have invaded Vermont, and
are the kind of persons who think
nothing of digging up our private
lawns and fields, our village greens.
even our cemeteries to find what they
believe is valuable "buried treasure,
These riffraff are totally without cou
cern for private property and do no
hesitate to trespass, and defy ow
of lawns and other areas.
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They should be stopped
and will be if this crazy idea is ca
tinued. Such persons who use the
devices are scavengers. In Verines
we intend to take legal action r
only to stop them but to take them
court and fine them for damages.
The worst part of this mode
crowd is their brazen assertion that
they have the right to destroy other
people's property. They should be
stopped. One way to stop them is to
refuse to advertise their detector.
I urge you to take such action.
Vrest Orton, Weston, VT
CHURCH IN PERIL
It was 213 years ago this month
that the first service was held in
the then newly constructed Christ
YANKEE October '74

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Page 19 Friday 3 August 1984
New Haven Jounal- Courier, Cam
2 divers locate ferry
143 years after sinking
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A 143-
year-old horse-powered ferry has
been found at the bottom of Lake
Champlain
The vessel, which is believed to
have operated between Basın Har-
bor and Westport, N.Y., was found
in 46 feet of water, near the
Burlington harbor.
Divers James Kennard and Scott
Hill of Rochester, N.Y, were working
on a project sponsored by the
Champlain Maritime Society when
they discovered the ferry with the
aid of sophisticated side-scan sonar
equipment.
Fred Hocker, a research intern at
the National Museum of American
History at the Smithsonian Institute
in Washington, said he believed the
discovery marked the first
time divers had uncovered the
wreck of a horse-powered ferry. He
said most were crudely constructed
and rotted away under water.
Donald Mayland, dive master for
the project, returned to the site
Wednesday and said the boat fits
the description of the Eagle, a boat
that ran three times a day between
Basin Harbor and Westport in 1841.
"All indications are that's what it
is," Mayland said.
Divers have estimated that the
wreck is 62 feet long and 20 to 22
feet wide and has a circular plat-
form, which horses appar-
ently walked on to drive two paddle
wheels, each about 8 feet in diame-
ter.
The boat is quite fragile and
about three-quarters is buried in silt,
Mayfield said. "She's badly da-
maged now. Much of the decking is
off," he said.
It is the most extensive study
ever done on a sunken vessel in
Lake Champlain and is being fi-
nanced by a state histori-
cal preservation grant. The study is
expected to cost $10,000.
Horse ferries were built during
the early 1800s, about the same
time that the steamboat made its
debut. When steamboats
became more reliable in the mid-
1800s, the horse ferries were put
out of business

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A10 CONNECTICUT POST
Sunday, August 26, 2001
NEWS
School ring lost for 30 years found by diver
RUTLAND, Vt. (AP)- More
than 30 years after a
Massachusetts high school
graduate lost his high school
ring in the Atlantic Ocean, it
has been returned to him by a
man who found it while
searching for underwater
treasures.
William McColgan said he
had long forgotten about the
ring he lost in the summer of
1970 while playing in the surf
in South Chatham on Cape Cod
with his friends not long after
he had graduated from St.
John's High School in
Shrewsbury, Mass.
"I was in the water,
throwing a ball to one of my
friends," he said. "I felt my
class ring slip off the end of
my finger. We frantically
started searching for it.'
McColgan, now 49, lives in
Rutland with his wife and two
sons and teaches automotive
technology at Barre Technical
Center. The 10-carat gold ring
was long forgotten.
Earlier this year a retired
U.S. Air Force engineer named
David Taylor was wading about
50 yards offshore with his
underwater metal detector. It
was low tide, so the water was
only 4 or 5 feet deep.
Taylor, who lives outside St.
Louis, Mo. and vacations on
Cape Cod, enjoys metal-
detecting as a hobby. He said he
often finds coins and
interesting random bits of
junk, and people often ask him
for help finding jewelry they've
just lost.
Taylor said the ring was
buried in the sand about 10
inches.
"It was totally black and
covered with crusty
underwater stuff," he said.
Taylor found McColgan
after calling the school named
on the ring.
McColgan said he got a call
in mid-June from the school,
asking him if he was William P.
McColgan from the class of
1970, and if he lost his class
ring.
"That was quite a surprise,"
McColgan said. "Losing the
ring was a big deal at the time,
but it was definitely out of my
mind now."
McColgan said he was
already planning to take his
family to Cape Cod early in
August, so it was easy to make
plans to meet Taylor there.
They met. had dinner, and
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School daze: William
McColgan of Rutland,
Vt., inpects his high
school class ring at his
Rutland, Vt., home after
losing it 30 years ago on
a Cape Cod beach. It
was located 50 yards
offshore with the aid of
an underwater metal
detector in South
Chatham, Mass., and
traced back to
McColgan through
McColgan's high school
in Shrewsbury, Mass.
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CONNECTICUT POST
Sunday, August 26, 2001
Cattleman accused of milking investors
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -
A cattleman is embroiled in a
court battle involving allega-
tions that he duped investors
out of millions by vastly over-
stating the size of his herd and
selling them the same live-
stock.
Courts in Missouri and
Iowa have issued orders asking
George L. Young, of Grant City,
Mo., to account for his live-
stock assets in light of the ac-
cusations.
"It comes down to a ques-
tion of, 'Where's the beef?"
Missouri Attorney General
Jay Nixon said.
Young is a veteran cattle-
man who bought the livestock
with investors' money and had
the animals fattened for mar-
But one of his companies
closed Aug. 10 after bankers be-
came suspicious that Young
al investors.
was using the same cattle as
collateral for loans from sever-
ket at various feedlots.
Young may have claimed he
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A10
CONNECTICUT POST
Sunday, August 26, 2001
NEWS
School ring lost for 30 years found by diver
RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) - More
than 30 years after a
Massachusetts high school
graduate lost his high school
ring in the Atlantic Ocean, it
has been returned to him by a
man who found it while
searching for underwater
treasures.
William McColgan said he
had long forgotten about the
ring he lost in the summer of
1970 while playing in the surf
in South Chatham on Cape Cod
with his friends not long after
he had graduated from St.
John's High School in
Shrewsbury, Mass.
"I was in the water,
throwing a ball to one of my
friends," he said. "I felt my
class ring slip off the end of
my finger. We frantically
started searching for it.'
McColgan, now 49, lives in
Rutland with his wife and two
sons and teaches automotive
technology at Barre Technical
Center. The 10-carat gold ring
was long forgotten.
Earlier this year a retired
U.S. Air Force engineer named
David Taylor was wading about
50 yards offshore with his
underwater metal detector. It
was low tide, so the water was
only 4 or 5 feet deep.
Taylor, who lives outside St.
Louis, Mo. and vacations on
Cape Cod, enjoys metal-
detecting as a hobby. He said he
often finds coins and
interesting random bits of
junk, and people often ask him
for help finding jewelry they've
just lost.
Taylor said the ring was
buried in the sand about 10
inches.
"It was totally black and
covered with crusty
underwater stuff," he said.
Taylor found McColgan
after calling the school named
on the ring.
McColgan said he got a call
in mid-June from the school,
asking him if he was William P.
McColgan from the class of
1970, and if he lost his class
ring.
"That was quite a surprise,"
McColgan said. "Losing the
ring was a big deal at the time,
but it was definitely out of my
mind now."
McColgan said he was
already planning to take his
family to Cape Cod early in
August, so it was easy to make
Taylor there.
6 DAYS A WEEK"
Are you paying your Day
Care or Baby Sitter $100
or MORE per week?
Associated Press
School daze: William
McColgan of Rutland,
Vt., inpects his high
school class ring at his
Rutland, Vt., home after
losing it 30 years ago on
a Cape Cod beach. It
was located 50 yards
offshore with the aid of
an underwater metal
detector in South
Chatham, Mass., and
traced back to
McColgan through
McColgan's high school
in Shrewsbury, Mass.
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EWS
CONNECTICUT POST Sunday, August 26, 2001
Cattleman accused of milking investors
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Mo., to account for his live-
A cattleman is embroiled in a stock assets in light of the ac-
court battle involving allega- cusations.
tions that he duped investors
out of millions by vastly over-
stating the size of his herd and
selling them the same live-
stock.
Courts in Missouri and
Iowa have issued orders asking
George L. Young, of Grant City,
"It comes down to a ques-
tion of, 'Where's the beef?"
Missouri Attorney General
Jay Nixon said.
Young is a veteran cattle-
man who bought the livestock
with investors' money and had
the animals fattened for mar-
ket at various feedlots.
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But one of his companies
closed Aug. 10 after bankers be-
came suspicious that Young
was using the same cattle as
collateral for loans from sever-
al investors.
Young may have claimed he
had 200,000 head of cattle when
the number was actually closer
to 16,000.
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