Oak Island Obsession by Lee Lamb

Author:Lee Lamb
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459714540
Publisher: Dundurn Press

Nov. 18th 1961

Dear Fred:

We received everything OK. The Blower is just right. We found the original trench dug by these people 14 ft. to 15 ft. across and 19 ft. down our beach shaft.

We found the drain to be definitely lower than we thought. Figures say (with our new information) 3 1/2 ft. to 7 ft. deeper. So we set up Prof. Hamilton’s Diamond Drill to bore 10 holes across this trench 10 to 11 ft. deep. We are No.8 hole now. No’s 6, 7 and 8 all struck close-set boulders at 3 ft. and on down. In no. 6 hole we hit a very hard stone that carbeloid won’t cut. We will come back to this later if we haven’t got the drain. No.8 hole is only 3 ft. deep yet. We are most anxious to finish this one and No’s 9 and 10. We will only put in an 11th if this stone work continues and we haven’t got the drain.

From what we have done here so far it appears that the cut is wider than necessary and that the drain was built on the North side of it. The floor on the south apparently being used for work space. We hope to finish this in a week. We got some of these holes down in a day and a half. Unfortunately it’s all a matter of the type of stone. Some drill very well with carbeloid.

It’s a lot of red tape drilling [in] this weather. The suction hose and water pump, etc. have to be drained each night.

In any case, our finances and the owner dictate that we must get down the Money Pit after the loot, starting December 1st. So the hour has finally come.

We got 18 barrels of gas over 10 days ago, took 12 up for the pump and left 4 at the beach shack. Also got over 2 barrels of stove oil. The weather here has been unseasonably warm. Mosquitoes (they don’t bite now), flies and moths are really out again …

Don’t know where I am going to dig up money this time. Expect this to be the very last. Would like very much to wind this up soon, successfully of course.

Well, I must close now, let me hear from you. I will keep you posted as regards results. Best regards to all from all of us here.

Yours truly,

Bob

Where was the money coming from to buy those drums of gas and oil? Since I know for certain that no outside investment capital came in, Fred must have come through. Several of Dad’s letters to Fred that year mention small amounts of money received in Fred’s letters, and in one letter Dad refers to having received a cheque for $440. In another, Dad mentions that he hopes Fred got the $1,500 job he was bidding on; possibly part of that had been earmarked for Oak Island. Throughout the years of Dad’s search, Fred worked assiduously at his plumbing and steamfitting business, and his son,

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