Show GENUINE DOODLEBUG DOODLE B BUG UG IS BAGGED BY LOCAL ENGINEER IN NEVADA HILLS A local engineer en ginee who was recently peste cating around in nevada discovered among other things that some somebody bod y had been flooding the country with doodlebug doodle bug devices calculated to relieve the prospector prospect br of 1 I 1 r i jay 1 jt all the hardships incident to of ore the returned engineer related that he had been wised up tip to the fact that dozens of contraptions contraption s lia had d been palmed off at cices prices ranging from a few dollars up at one stopping place remotely located the cating engineer found one of these bugs astraddle of an old clothesline clothes lothes c line he captured the varmint and brought baroug lit it in to the mining review which had it photographed for reproduction here it is examine it closely and if you would like to try it out and you are to put up a bond guaranteeing its return come in and get it this contrivance evidently was designed and patterned after the old twig water finder of fathers day the terminals are copper tubes evidently filled with babbit to hold the spring wire connections the apex terminal however may contain a charge of dynamite or quicksilver or compressed hot air or mud anyway the vendor must have done a land office business among 6 the 6 gold hunters who invaded weepah during the gret excitement 9 for many of the bugs are still being tried out it is related |