Over the years there has been a number of articles written about this ship. One refernce would be W.C.Jameson, Buried Treasures of California. Another one that might be related was in Arizona Highways August 1996 pages 46/47. On August 25 of this year Lost Treasure web site on their Today's Treasure tale had a story about this ship that was written in July 1977 by Al Masters called Amazing Treasure Ship of the California Desert. It was first published in Lost Treasure Magazine. its about nine pages long. Years ago my Grandfather told me the story about this pearl ship and had mention he knew someone who had said he had seen it. Jim nm