The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-07-18

TOR SEVERAL years much has
- been heard regarding II. Reber
and his mysterious power to de-
termine the location of ore bod
les without regard to outcrops vein
structure formation or any of the
conditions usually sought as a prere-
quisite to undertaking intelligent and
expensive development work, and not
a few companies in this district have
become Reberized to the extent of
working under his direction and
agreeing to pay him a substantial fee
in cash or stock conditioned upon find
ing the ore so determined by Reber.
SO far as the Miner has been Inform
ed, no one in this district has ever
been called upon to pay Mr.. Reber
his fee, which is equivalent to saying
that no ore has ever been found
through work done under his direc-
ton. In spite of his repeated failures
and the utter absurdity of his pre-
tentious claims, there are practical
men with apparently well balanced
minds, men who have been successful
because of their ability to distinguish
between fact and fiction, who believe
that Reber possesses some occult pow
er or is human magnet which en-
ables him to locate ore bodies by
merely walking over the surface of a
claim, or to wander through under
ground workings without light or any
one familiar with the ground to guide
him, and designate just where a cross
cut should be run, a drift extended or
a shaft sunk to encounter body of
ore. There are men in the Occur
d'Alene district who believe that Re-
Der has this power evidence of which
is found in the fact that thousands of
dollars have been spent under his di-
rectiOn, but not a pound of ore has
been discovered through the exercise
of his mysterious power 1t does not
appear to have occurred to the men
who are spending money under Re-
bers advice that if he possessed the
cessary for him to be negotiating with
small development companies under
agreements to find ore for block of
stock or for other insignificant con-
slderatons compared with the results
he processes to be able to accomplish.
He would put every geologist and min
ing engineer out of business, for their
services would be no longer required.
own, but he would be retained by the
greatest mining corporations with a
prncely salary and with nothing to do
but visit the properties occasionally,
ground to receive the vibrations"
which tell with unerring certainty
where the ore is located.
An Oil Wizard, Too.
But the Coeur d'Alene district is not
the only place where men fall for the
Reber stuff Just now he is operating
in the oil regions of Wyoming, the
presence of oil being equally potent
in producing vibrations in his sensi-
tive system In order to satisfy q
bunch of doubling Thomases in the oil
fields, a test was made to try out his
magic powers, the result of which is
proclaimed to be a complete yindica-
tion of Reber The test is described
by the Riverton Review, published at
ID Ni,,dr IN hn tc1I1 Of
June 4. and is here reproduced in full
Wizard Proves He Can Do 1t.
"When it was noised about town
last week that H. Reber formerly of
smeller," etc.,-Iwas to prove that he
could satisfy wager of L. e. Nc
Laughln against j. w. owens and Lon
Leathers in favor of the former, that
he could after dark place stakes on
the outside boundaries of pool of oil
he had previously located, biologists
and others of Riverton reputed to be
up in oil circles announced that the
home for feeble minded at Lander
would soon undergo enlargements to
accommodate certain Rivertonites.
"And, we must concede that that
| may soon be the case for Mr.. Reber
has an additional number OF converts
or victims, as the case may be, since
last Saturday night and Sunday NOR
ming and among them many who have
been credited with being level-headed
as will be seen by the list who accom-
panied Mr.. Reber on his trip.
Saturday evening the wizard L.
r. Mclaughlin, VIM. Fazon, w. II.
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