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On July 20, Fisher announced he had discovered the mother lode of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, a 550-ton flagship of a Spanish trea sure fleet that sank in a hurricane in 1622. The ship was buried beneath four feet of sand and 53 feet of ocean, about 40 miles west of Key West. Nearby, Fisher’s divers reported finding gold bars, silver bullion, be- jeweled artifacts and treasure chests crammed with silver coins. Bleth McHaley, vice president of Fisher’s Treasure Salvors Inc., says investors such as Lindsey and Von derhaar are going to be worth “a lot of money.” It is anyone’s guess, however, ex actly how much they’ll share with hundreds of others who bought into Fisher’s search for the Atocha. “It depends on what is totally re covered,” McHaley said in a recent interview. “Everybody will get some thing.” Fisher, 63, originally estimated the treasure’s worth at around $400 million. McHaley said $238 million might be closer to the mark. So far, 900 silver bars and an un determined number of gold and sil ver coins have been recovered, she said. Norman Stack of Stack’s Rare Coins in New York City cautions, “The more coins they find, the less they may be worth. The coin busi ness is based on supply and de mand.” All investors will receive treasure, not cash. The small investor — most of whom were in a limited, one-year partnership — is likely to receive coins. The larger investors will get some of the more precious elements of the booty, according to McHaley. The treasure will be distributed through a system in which every coin, gold and silver bar or trinket will be assigned a point value. It will take two years or more be fore all the treasure is recovered, cleaned and documented, McHaley said. She said a new lab will have to be built, and divers may be unable to work during parts of the Atlantic hurricane season from July 1 to Nov. 30. Carl Paffendorf, president of the Glen Cove, N.Y., investment com pany of Vanguard Ventures Inc., said he’s glad he bought into the Atocha deal, but wouldn’t recom mend such a risky investment to the general public. “This type of investment is for one who can afford to lose money. If it hits — great, if not, then you still had a piece of the action,” he said. In 1980, when the galleon Santa Margarita was located off Key West, Paffendorf and a syndicate of 34 other investors each committed $150,000 in exchange for a 10 per cent permanent share of treasure from the Atocha and the Margarita, which also went down in the 1622 hurricane. Paffendorf said he expects to make more than $20 million for his investors. So far, he said, he has $4.5 million in treasure locked up in a New York bank vault. The majority of Fisher’s investors, though, are involved in the limited partnership put together by Jerome Burke of Underhill Associates in Red Bank, N.J. Investors get what ever is recovered in a particular year, and Fisher gets help with his estimated $1 million annual ex penses. In 1974, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigated Fisher’s stock-selling practices. With out admitting guilt, Fisher promised not to sell any unregistered stock. The state is investigating whether Fisher violated securities registra tion, according to Bill Quattlebaum, spokesman for the comptroller’s of fice. Treasure Salvors is a private com pany and enjoys a “private-place ment exemption” so it doesn’t have to register securities with the state, said Chris Anderson, director of se curities with the comptroller’s office. However, it cannot advertise or sell securities to more than 35 non- acredited investors, or those invest ing less than $100,000, he said. Lufkin woman holds hunting record Slouch “This student in my class said that since tuition has tripled, he expects me to be three time as good, or one third as hard. ” Crash (continued from page 1) lieved dead had been riding in the three front cars of the international train and the two lead cars of the re gional train. “Eighty percent of the passengers in the tnree front carriages must have died,” ANOP quoted Azevedo as saying. Local news reports quoted hospi tal officials as saying only 28 people were confirmed dead, but ANOP quoted railway officials at the site as saying there were at least 150 charred bodies in one carriage alone. The state televison, RTP, said it was difficult to determine the num ber of injured because they had been taken to many hospitals. Police in Mangualde said five for eign nationals on the train were be ing treated for injuries. They identi fied them as a West German, a Malaysian, a man from Luxembourg and a couple from Italy. Correia, who was emigrating to Germany, described to reporters what he did at the moment of the collision: “I held on with all im might. I felt that if I didn’t I wouH surely die. I heard an explosionano the fire started immediately af terwards. God gave me strengthani I jumped through the window. 1 managed to save a German coudt It was luckier than winning thew tery.” According to railway officials, tl* accident occurred at 6:40 p.m.,whtt the behind-schedule easttxaund ii> ternational train hit a Coimb bound local train between thetora of Mangualde and Nelas in tht mountainous Serra da Estrela rt gion. Alvaro Rodrigues, a ticket colb tor on one of the trains, told ANOF he managed to escape with two women when the car they were rid ing in tipped over. “I could do no more becaust flumes were spreading through tht carriage, and I feared explosions, he said. Hospital authorities in Viseu, 18i miles northeast of the capital, Lis bon, appealed for donations (f blood, and police asked people to stay away from the scene to facilitatt removal of the dead and injured. Big-game hunting fun for couple Associated Press LUFKIN — Deb Saxton of Lufkin holds the record for the second larg est Asiatic Water Buffalo ever killed by a woman. But she did it with a borrowed gun that knocked her down and she certainly doesn’t plan to hang out her shingle as an expert. “I don’t want to give anybody the impression that I am a macho, super hunter,” she says. She and her husband, Dr. James Saxton, are big game hunters. The skill and the impressive trophies, though, she credits to her husband. Her involvement began with her ac companying him as a non-hunting companion. She took advantage of several opportunities to kill an ani mal, and now she, too, is listed as a hunter when they book their hunts. Her kills include the water buffalo in Australia in 1984; a fallow deer in New Zealand in 1984; a Spanish Red Stag in Spain in 1980; a sable ante lope, an impala, and a zebra in Af rica in 1975. Last but not least, she names the “good white tail” deer that she has bagged in Texas. “There’s so much 1 love about it. . . shooting animals is way down on the list,” Mrs. Sayston says. “It’s meeting people and seeing things that you’d never see otherwise.” She spoke of making lifelong friendships, of discovering cave paintings in the outback of Austra lia, of buying damascene articles in Toledo, Spam. Too, their hobby is something that the couple can enjoy together. She says she enjoys seeing the ani mals in their natural habitats. “Any kind of a stag is so majestic,” Mrs. Saxton said. “They are regal. I’ll get a chill watching them some times. It wanned my heart to see the kangaroo running across the fields in Australia. “Just imagine riding in a jeep and you can actually see herds of zebra, impala, sable antelope, and kudu. They’ll graze and eat — just like cattle.” She sees the contradiction in an animal lover hunting, but she says, “There are a lot of misconceptions about hunting. Hunting is not just going out and shooting animals. You wouldn’t be a hunter if you didn’t love wildlife. Hunters are conserva tionists.” She and her husband are very careful about which animals they take, she says. They may kill an ani mal from an area where that partic ular species is overpopulated, or a very old one. They do not seek out the largest young buck, but instead leave him to father future genera tions. “Big game hunters will go for the trophy animals and the trophies are the old animals. “We honestly eat everything we kill,” Mrs. Saxton says, though she is not as enthusiastic an eater of wild game as some. “I don’t eat every thing whole hog, but I taste it.” Not long ago, she cooked a moun tain lion that Dr. Saxton had killed. After their youngest son, Josh, 7, had eaten his helping, she said her husband asked him, ‘“Do you feel like you can run faster and climl) mountains? You just ate my moun tain lion.”’ The Saxtons have two other sons, Jamie, 25, and John, 17. The trophy room in their homeii filled with evidences of their con quests. Two elephant tusks frame trie fireplace. A “grand slam”displai — the four types of large Norti American sheep — are mounteil over the fireplace. Two hearthsidt stools are maoe of elephant feet cov ered with zebra hide. 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