Show FINDS MINE WITH WITHA A DIVINING ROD Montana Man Who Has Ha Won Non Three Fortunes Has Fourth I in Sight Special to The Helena Mont Hont Nov 30 Mining ex ox expert pert pens confirm the report that Robert RobertA A Bell with a good di divining divining divining vining rod has won his fourth fortune by locating a mine in Jefferson county The first report was waa published some ome sometime time thus ago but today mining men who have examined the location say Bell will be richer than he ever was al although although although though he has haB made and spent three fortunes fortune Mr Bell Ben ha has received not a few quer queries queries ies Ie concerning hi divining rod it its Ita powers and the like and In an Inter Interview Interview interview view he has haa endeavored to make ex explanation explanation explanation He said mid midI I 1 had heard a great deal about the power which some people were saul said to topo possess po In locating mineral bodies II un underground underground Underground through the use of the di dl divining divining vining rod and I determined to try it As a boy back hack east I used to use UBe a hazel hasel or willow pronged switch and alId could always locate water Recently I ot a willow switch witch s and was WaB quite surprised ed when it dipped as aB I 1 was over a mineral bearing earing body o y Then I 1 tried it on unexplored ground and the stick dipped as 1 went Whenever I 1 got off olf the trend of ot the vein the stick resumed a horizontal position 1 I located three new veins on the B D BG DG Ba G a through the use of ot the stick Some S me of the miners tried triad it and there were one or two who were able to make it operate while others other could coume nut nuu Try a forked willow wUl w stick eUck over the rails ralls of a track if it one has baa the power the stick will work excellently It i Is strange but I can no longer detect the presence of water with this stick Uck but I can detect the presence of ot min mineral mineral mm eral Asked further to explain his theory theor Bell Boil said that some persons possess PO a peculiar sort of magnetism or electricity ty b The forked stick sUck acts a as ae a con conductor conductor conductor ductor if It one is positively charged and the mineral minerai or water is negatively charged the stick is pulled downward but if both are positive or both nega negative negative negative tive then a resistance is set up and the stick is inclined upward Bell lost his last fortune netting on Bryan |