Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-02-12
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They have been boring au arte,m. Ae)
ont at the iron foundry nod u
time the work seemed to ~. s..
nicely The boring wa. dom, .tu
inch auger fixed in the cud .u
rod which was twisted ut.u.o . a
wheel worked 10y two men. Ono Ly
after they had gone down "a good mauy
feet, they tried to pull the rod out, but IL
would not como. They were afraid to
use much force, lost the augcr .hould
come oil and stay IN the hole, and So, us
the boring went along we'll enough, they
concluded to keep ON turning, and o
/ trust to the force of the water, when lhoN
/ struck it., to drive the loose d.t ,.a /. .u
/ the Iholc. When they had sy 3.0u
about three hundred and t,,. .e,,, UhN
began To think it queer Jud Juvl. Wcu
no signs OF water but ttcl 1or.d ID uuu
dred feet Guthcr and one day, just "a.
they were begianing on another hundred,
there was an excitement n at Mulphy's
Murphy lives neat doog 60 thcnuudIy,
and on the next day in question: his hoy
camo running into the house and told
him to como into the galdeu quick, for
there WAS some kind OF au extraordinary
animal with u shatp nose buroNmg up
out OF the ground. Mu,phl concluded
that It must be either potato Dug or a
grasshoppcr that had been hatched in the
Spring, and he took out bottle oi bug
poison to drop on it Whou 1t camo up.
When Murphy reached the spot thorc
certainly was somc Kind OF creature
slowly pushing its way up through the
sod. Its nose seemed to resemble sharp
point like steel Murphy dropped some
poison on it, but ii didu'tap to mind
the stun, but kept slowly cropping up
from the ground Then Mu.phy ,elt 1t,
and was astouishcd to find iaut ~ toit eA-
actly like the end of "a lo.h p.oug. llo
sent the boy in to eau lcI,tu, aud the
rest of tho ucighbors. tlcul -ouua large
crowd collected and 10y tu,, t,mo tho
animal had emerged to the cNtcut of u
couple OF inches.
Everybody was amazed to soc that it
looked exactly like the end of a large
auger, and two or three limld men were
So scared at the idea OF such thing gactu-
ally growing out Of the earth that they
suddenly got over the tcncc and left
Perkins couldn't account ior 1t, but he
suggested that maybe somebody had
planted gmlet thorc, and 1t hud taken
root and blossomed out into np augor,
but he admitted that he had never heard
OF such II thing before,
Murphy said il that kind OF tn,og would
work, he probably might so mto the
business regularly, and raise NAos 10y
planting hatchets, and guns 10y sowing
pistols, Tho excitement increased 80
that the men " Who were boring the arto
sian we'll knocked off and came over to
SEQ tho phenomenon. 1t was noticed thnt
ms soon as they stopped work the auger
''NH'A w klbNt hllA NllNN llNN hlilNNh
they looked at ii for minute, and one OF
them said;
" Bill, do you recognize that augcr ?"
think do, said Bill
" We'll, Bin, you 90 and urh"ch toat
wheel from the other end OF Tho .o.
Bin did So; and the other 49, n.d
the crowd to take hold OF rh, a... .ud
pan. They did, and out came 90" .u
drcd aud fifty leetot irourod. lh,a.
had slid off to one side, turned upW ud
and came to the surface in Mup,y
garden. Then the arcsau welt ua-
abandoned, and Brown, hejoUudry man.
bought II steam pump and began to sel
water from the river.