The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-03-15
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Remarkable Stories of a Texas toy's
 Ability to See Underground | Streams.
 Guy Fenley, the fourteen-year-
 boy with the x-ray eyes, is creating a
 big stir among the stockmen of West Texas. This boy, with his remarkable
 pair of eyes, can see water at any depth
 in the ground and has located a large number of wells, each having an un-
 failing supply of water, on ranches in < that semi-arid section of the state. His
 services are in such demand by ranch
 men who want to put down wells for
 their livestock that he is kept busy at
 work all the time. This boy is the son
 of Joel c. F'en1ey, q highly respected citizen of Uvalde, Tex, who is exten- sively engaged in raising livestock. The fact that his son was possessed of
 x-ray sight was discovered about four years ago. He only has this power of ! looking far into the depth of the earth
 at night and the darker 1t is the better he can see. On the night that his won
 derful gift was discovered, the boy and father were walking through pasture
 of a ranch near Uvalde, when Guy ex- claimed:
 Look at that stream of wateri''
 His father replied that there was no
 water to be seen in that locality, but the
 boy insisted that he could see a flowing
 stream of clear water far down in the ground. Upon reaching home the ex- pertinent was made of bucketful of water being set under table, and the
 boy could see it plainly through the wooden top of the table when the room was darkened, Soon after this MT. Fenley determined to put down stock we'll on his ranch, and taking his son With him one night the latter soon To- cated whot he asserted was a fine stream of water about two hundred feet below the surface. He described mi- nutely the different strata of earth and rock that lay between the surface and the water. The well was sunk on the spot indicated by the boy and one of the finest flows of water ever obtained in that section up to that time was struck at depth of one hundred and eighty-seven feet.
 News of the boys wonderful power of sight began to spread about among the ranchmen, but it was slow to be be- lieved, and it was not until about year ago that further practical tests were made of his X-ray sight. He was taken by Thomas Devine to his ranch in the northern part of Uvalde county, where thousands of dollars had been expended in vain efforts to obtain wa ter. It was in the dark of the moon when the visit to Mir. Devine's ranch was made, and the boy was taken out to a large pasture and leL over the ground. After travelling about for nearly two hours he geefully exclaimed that he had at last found a large stream of water which was flowing in south- easterly direction, and that it was loca- ted at depth of about one hundred | and seventy-fve feet below the surface. | The spot was carefully marked and | MT. Devine followed the boy for over | mile along the course of the under | ground stream. Locations for wells | were marked at number of places and | the work of digging for water began In each instance splendid flow of wa ter was struck at almost the exact | depth named by the boy.
 The above is only one of many cases in which young Henley has been suc- ceasful in locating underground sup 1 plies of water. In fact, he has never made a failure. He was recently of- fered five hundred dollars to locate a we'll on F. K. Moores ranch in Ed wards county He refused to accept the money, but went to the ranch and pointed out the spot where an under ground stream could be struck and named the depth the well would have to De put down. He said that he could zee the water, and that it was splen- lid stream of pure water A well was lug at the spot indicated, and great low of water was struck.
 The remarkable gift of this boy in the mysteries that lie be- leath the earth's surface has come to he knowledge of number of oil pro- pectors, and he Is being urged by them ,