Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-12-06
FINDING WATER BY
OLD-TIME METHOD
Roseburg, Oregon, Nov. &c.

on your time with letter, now that
the smoke has cleared away after the
late great political battle, and the
country is again settling down and
turning towards other matters, | will
let you hear from me again. Thanks
giving has rolled around again and
from the looks of the local markets,
you would think everybody was going
to have turkey for Thanksgiving din
ner. Though the price is less than a
year ago, being from 25c to soc per
pound for dressed against 35c to doc
last fall, yet the crop is far short of
what it was then, as the local buyers
say that last year they bought and
handled about 25, 900; this year they
would hardly exceed $4,000, as the
late rains and cold weather was UNI
favorable for the Matching and raising
and many were lost thereby. Other
crops, however, were much larger,
and better than usual, especially the
prune, and apple crop, and though the
rnisers are complaining of the prices.
yet if you go to the grocery, you
have to pay 75c to $1.OO per box
for pippins, Baldwins and such.
see where you ask your CORE
spondents to let you hear from them
as to their belief and experience in
locating wells with a switch. Like
you, l used to be skeptical as to this
method, but since coming out here,
have had reason to somewhat change
my mind When first came here and
bought little ranch in the country
there were three others also who
bought off the same tract, the houses
all being in row, and only one we'll,
which was some distance off, the
house standing where it was dug
having been moved to be on line
with each other, and the question of
water was an agtating one, and
where to dig to find it was what all
wanted to know. The man who dug
the first we'll, did not believe in the
twig, and dug his where he wanted it,
and after going down between 80 and
80 feet struck only medium flow.
The two others to dig next both
located theirs with the switch and one
of them struck full flow at eighteen
feet, that ran in so East that it could
not be bailed out, and the third man
at about % feet, about the SINE
quantity, and they were dug in dry
weather, when all waters wereSlow.
| did not dig my well. using from
the one nearest to me, as helped in
the digging. but three different men
located flow right at the corner of
my house. | drove down a little peg
as they were indicated, neither of the
men knowing of the others having
located, and the three pegs were in
radius of IL or Is inches, and after
| sold the purchaser also had it again
located, and dug his we'll rihgt at the
same spot and last Friday | was out
there and asked him about his we'll,
when he told me what he had done,
and that at no time had there been
less than seven feet of water in the
well, and nearly all western people
locate their wells with the switch
1t seems to he a question of the
amount of electricity any one possesses
20 enable them to locate, and the
peach, willow. hazel or any other
young twig when the sap is up is
about as good as the other. At my
place in one mans hands, the arms
beir2 held perfectly stiff, the willow
twig squirmed almost like worm,
or pigs tail on hot rock, like |
used TO do to roast them at hog kill
ing, when boy, so, with what
have seen, together with what have
heard from others, | have been con-
verified.
Nothing / have seen in your paper
for long time has been so distress
ing to me as the several sad deaths
at your place recently, especially those
of Captain G. A. Fudge and Col. II.
C. Anderson. both friends of long
years standing, and who had hoped
to see again. They both possessed
many noble qualities, and with Colonel
Anderson | was for many years mo- e
intimate than almost any other of my
many friends, and greatly attached
to him. He was my friend ard adj
wiser in business matters, in which
he was the soul of honor. scorning to
take any advantage of friend or
client, and we fished and hunted to-
gether for years, and the many
pleasant and happy hours / have spent
at his home we're among the happiest
of my life and never to be forgotten.
he was man of strong personality
and fine attainments and though not
poet there was lots of poetry in his
soul. and his heart was full of the
milk of human kindness.
No man was more attentive to the
stranger, to welcome and assist him,
If necessary, and he enjoyed life, and