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Show FOUTTS' FERTILIZER FEEDS FIERCE FLAMES E. Fouts has a deed to property . lying almost directly east of his home on the highway that has a peculiar pe-culiar formation. Upon the property is a high mound from the top of : which a spring used to flow a con- j siderable body of water. The thrifty 1 Mr. Foutts conceived the idea of pip-: ing the spring to his home ranch, a; distance of about four miles, for irrigating irri-gating purposes. The same thrifty gentleman had previously purchased 'steen miles of four inch pipe tor a, song from some where. ( whistling i the song himself) so that the piping! was easy. There was also another pipe to, the story, for Mr. Foutts haiU a pipe dream that he could irrigate : about all of his ranch with the water from the spring. But that's another story. Ask him. Well, anyway, when the water was properly piped to the reservoir the top of the mound became dry and it was discovered that the place was a great bed of peat, or decayed vegetable growth. Geologists pronounced it "a coal mine in the bud." It proved to be extremely good fertilizer. One day! last summer, or fall, Mr. Foutts in a brief moment of thoughtlessness -he seldom has 'em, never when tin,:- ' ing horses or mules -built a fit" on the mound to burn some brush. Sup- ; posing that it would soon burn itself out be left the place for home. That bloomin' lire is burning yet. The mound is now a hole in the ground so far as the top is concerned an:1 Mr. Foutts' fertilizer mine is slowly ' disappearing. There seems to be no way to extinguish the siuoah'eriti. flames. Last week, during th" rots' famine a ton ami a half of the peat was delivered at the high school building and served to piece out tie scant supply of black diamonds. 1' 1 lis saitl that the peal makes oxeellcii' 'fuel when perfectly dry. Mr. Bingham ami other early set tiers of Miliersville declare that the j wei remember when that peal bo' j was covered with giant tulles or "'-'i i tails" and they used to have to rid-all rid-all through the two acre pat'h el them to find their cattle and drive ; them out. It seems that tV' dvir. growth fell for years thus f'triniti -the mound of peat . |