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The latest from Beaumont to the ef fect that the West Texas boy who has correctly located running streams of water beneath the earth's surface, has appeared there and located what he claims as oll streams outside of the Spindle Top territory. As a result of this discovery by this young man,a stock company has been organized and the work of developing the find is to be undertaken at once. If the experi ment proves a success that boy's future will be one of peace and plenty, beyond any question,—Gonzales Inquirer. The West Texas augur-eyed boy's charlatanism may gain some credence in Beaumont, where people's heads are already turned, but he would have a hard time convincing the majority of us west of the Pecos that he is not a fraud. We wouldn't bet, but we would venture the assertion and back it up with 40 cents that he makes the same reputation down there that he has out here. He created quite a stir among some of the more credulously inclined in this country by “seeing” streams of running water deep down under the surface of the earth and was widely advertised as the gray eyed phenome non, but when wells were put down exactly over his streams of running water and at a much greater depth than the water he saw(%) and were fin ally abandoned as dry as powder horne, his boom was bursted. There are a few who claim, and firmly believe, that he can see into the bowels of the earth, and some of whom will doubtless pity our pig- headed ignorance, and there are also those who earnestly believe in the old way of witching for water, and those who consult the moon about the proper time to plant potatoes, and oth ers who firmly believe that there are those who can call up and converse with the departed spirits, and still oth— but where's the use of anything fur ther.—Pecos County Pickings
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Alpine Avalanche
Alpine, Texas, US
Fri, Nov 01, 1901
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