Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-02-13

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Guy Feniey, the foart year. old
boy with the x.ray eyes, is creating
a big stir among the stoc ockmen 81
West Texas. This boy, with his
remarkable pair OF eyes, can see
water ct any depth iii tho ground,
and has located alarge number Of
wells, each having an nnfailing sup.
ply Of water, on ranches In that
!semi-arid section Of the State. His
services are Tin such demand by
ranchmen who want to put down
wells for their livestock that he is
kept busy at that work 5all5the time.l
This boy isthe son OF Joel 81. Fen
ley, g highly respected citizen Of
BUvalde, Texas, who is extensiyelyl
engaged in raising livestock. The
fact that his son was possessed Of
X.ray5 sight was discovered about
four years ago. He only has this
,nower Of looking far into the depth
of the earth at night, and the darker
it is the better he can see, On the
night that his wonderful gift was
discovered, the boy and father were
walking through q pasture Of a ranch
near Uvalde, when Guy exclaimed !:
ssLook at that stream ofrwateris
His father replied that there was
no water to- be seen inthat locality,
but tho boy insisted that he could
see 9 flowing stream Of clear water
far down in the ground. Upon
reaching home tho experiment was
made of q buoketful Of water being
setunder the table, and the boy could
see it plainly through the wooden
top of the table when the room was
darkened. Soon after this Mr.. Fen.
ley determined to put down a stock
well on his ranch, and taking his
son with him one night, the latter
soon located what he asserted was a
fine stream Of water about 200 feet
below the surface. The we'll 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 d
depth Of 1877 feet.
News Of the boys wonderful
power of sight began to spread
about among the ranch hmen, but it
was slow TO be believed, and it was
not until about year ago that fur
ther practical tests were made Of his
X-raY sight. He was taken by
Thomas Devine to his ranch in the
northern part of Uyalde county,
where thousandsof dollars had been
expended in vain efforts to obtain
water. It was in the dark Of the
moon when the visit to Mr.. Devine's
ranch was made, and the boy was
taken out to a large pasture and led
over the ground. After travelling
about for nearly two hours he glee-
fully exclaimed that,he had at last
found a large stream Of water which
was flowing in q southeasterly direc-
tion, and that it was located at a
depth Of about 175 feet below, the
surface. The spot was carefully
marked, and Mr.. Deyine followed
the hoy for oyer Amile along TIC
course of the underground stream.
Locations for wells were marked at
a numbero Of places, and the work Of
digging for water began. In each
instance splendid flow of water was
struck almost at the axaot depth,
named by the boy.
The above is only one Of many
cases ig which young Fenley has
been successful in locating under
ground supplies of water. In fact,
no has never made a failure. He
was recently offered $500 to locate
q we'll on T. X, Moore's ranch, in
Edwards county. He refused to
accept money, but went to the ranch
and pointed out the spot where an
underground stream could be struck
and named the depth the we'll would
have to be put down. He said that
he could see the water plainly, and
that It was a splendid stream Of pure
water. a well was dug at the spot
indicated, and a great flow of water
was struck.
The remarkable gift of this boy in
penetrating the mysteries that lie
beneath thp aprth,a unrfo M haa 49,, !