| Show - i''''01'' ueambsnmaawaigiosiostNoegdgw00moNIllPlaoionKoaoanlihwttVddtglrvottpasAgomoaoa"'''"M"'"''hdMba""'"“""dW"'"Mld""""W"MiewhiooddsQdubwo 1 I 2S0 The Salt Lake Tribune Wednesday April 26 1989 L J ' Personality Focus - 0:3 ' - Find Well Site With a Stick? Water Witcher Says He Never Misses Arms 10"0 By Darren Tucker Tribune Staff Writer Paul Filcher holds both ends of a forked stick in his hands and slowly walks across his front yard Suddenly the long end of the stick begins to bend down until it finally ends up pointed at the ground - Mr Filcher says "Right here"This is the north side of the : - - 1 ' - : ' : ' ''"?S1 ':'' 1 '':f: 4'''' ' :'' ' '' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ': :'''''"''''' ' ' ' e: :' - - i' i 'a - P'' ' 41 ''' ' r - - ''ti:' t ' "- '''' - :04 ' :4' ' c y I ' 044 i joi- 1 lite'"' - ‘"- ' '"4' ri!cb4 I' '': t' ' - ' A 'o'Fl::4!1t1 k :' 2 - x 4 I 4 i 1 A ' 'I - 3 It1 1 ::f ' 1 him k L': ' b A4 tit r called by his neighbors to witch wells — that is he'd go over and use a forked stick to find the best spot to - 1 --- it at - :1": ' f - - P t" imp c:' 1- -' 4"' 1' ‘ 4 ' ----- drill 1 ' n'!-t-- -s 44:mt! 1 a '' - ' !f2214142Sitato::: t- i' '1 l ' -' my daddy around with my own stick when be was witching" Mr Filcher remembered "My stick worked just as Well as his In fact when someone would come and need a well witched if my daddy wasn't there I'd just go and do it for -- vr'7:1-4:- 4) "I used to follow ''''-- :c-- 47"-$:-- (41:Vvr f - '''':' 1:::1046 '13'itimeilli0 4 44111A104 04'M417 r ZI"Ft"I 14:- - '1 elti Slow P1000 toy At them" Norimorn then Armed with a forked green stick the But does witching really work? According to Mr Filcher it does "In the 50 years I've been witchI've never missed yet" he said ing -I'd never even try to drill a well without witching first I've seen a man go down 600 feet and never hit anything If you dig without witch Texan now witches wells for local citizens Police Focus L - SL Valley Police Report Crime Details who grabbed her from behind When the woman sciearning and struggling the intruder yanked her hair bock roughly then lumped oft the bed and flea Me house Police found that two doors of the residence near I 100 E 8600 South hoo been lett unlocked Police also noted there have been n similar incidents of prowlers in about a the area recently (ADM 17) A mon in his early 20s lunged of ° convenience store clerk with a knife before leaving the store wrth a stolen case of beer The clerk was outside washing the parking lot lust before 1 am when he noticed the man and went inside to help him As the clerk walked by the man en route to the cash register the man mode a stabbing motion at the clerk with a folding knife But the swinging motion of the clerk's orms knocked the knife from the mans hand and the clerk was unhurt The man then retrieved the knife and fled the store with the beer The man said "See you later Falso" as he lett The following reports were provided by law enforcement agencies in Salt Lake Valley: becyJn i treOVALI — CAOrti 12) Salt Loire man A womwas crested coffer he paged a an down State Street by her hoof ond repeatedly lucked and struck her in the heod and loce Witnesses ilint observed the man hitting the woman whika OrwirPg sotAn on Stale Street at about 8 am Later the mon WM seen owing the w0M011 down the street ona sidevrolk by het hot Occosoonolly he woutcl stop and "step on her heocr and htl her reports $opa When Met armed the rnon fought with them He hod to be subdued by several officers before he was culled hand and toot He was booked into KM on suspocton of senpoe ossoutt and assault on a po"co officer woman was SANDY — (April 12) An awataned in het bed oust before midneght by 0 man SOUTH JORDAN — (April 18) Two luverdes were by nesgritors wrd okegedit sow them stealing cables from o potobe arc wewirg machine near 10400 S 3200 west hieto-opt- s — ond chased the two boys oged 15 crd apprehended loeieee pace caught and heid tem two were stealing the cat4es $o sell tor S C XC welder and toots on a trader valued or was also stolen from The sorne oreo tre peKAA e iv ria week but police coutd not say whether dents were linked WEST JORDAN — (April 15) Si ockts ivee axrd and Threatened with knives and a gun by We ren who entered the home near 9000 S 12X iota through a basement window One mon tired snot from a handgun near a min s lace so erciatrx)e so?e to divulge where Them voluabtes were itect blast left powder burns on the mote vcsrl s loco and may have permonentty Oornoged ha The three robbers left in The dtheanng in one irns' van taking On undisclosed large amard of The van was found abandoned cash and leweiry Murray later that morning r GI IL- - r ' r Utah Student Win At UN Contest UP&L to Bill Draper Garbage to the treasurer with their complaints "Only the actual billing and collecting of the money will change" Mrs Wilkins said The residents will also save money she said "This is one less bill they will receive And we will save them postage and the extra check" Also since some of the bills are delinquent a garbage bill that is connected with the utility bill is more likely to be paid she said The only leverage she had before was to threaten to take delinquent customers to small claims court "We like to keep better relations with all of the residents by not having to take them to court to pay their bills" Mrs Wilkins said The new system will be cost effective she added "To do it properly we either had to add personnel which would cost more money or contract it out- - Special to The Tribune DRAPER — Beginning in May Draper residents will pay for garbage collection with their monthly Utah Power 81 Light bill The city decided to contract with UP&L for its garbage billing to allow City Treasurer Karen Wilkins more time for other duties She said it has been difficult to do a complete billing for the city since there is no way she can keep track of who should be billed when people move in and out of the city UPILL keeps track of people moving and will be more aware of whom it should bill Mrs Wilkins explained "Most people don't stop to think they need to change the listing for their garbage bill when they move" she said "This way well have a more complete billing of the entire city" If people have problems with their garbage collection they can still go Special to The Tribune DRAPER — The oldest log cabin in Draper iihd si as owned by Agnes Wadsworth and Perry Fitzgerald will be restored by the Draper Historical Society The lob cabin which was located at about 1160 E 12400 South has been disassembled It will be rebuilt in the Draper Park During a historical society meeting Don Enders from the Church of Saints Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Museum of Church History and Art offered some tips about restoring the cabin Mr Enders restored the Osmond Deuel cabin which is adjacent to the LDS museum "So you have a log home in Draper you're interested in restoring" Mr Enders said "Well its a crazy thing to want to do You're attempting to do something that was never supposed to be done You are fighting a tough battle" The Deuel log cabin is one of two homes that was built in 1847 that is still standing Mr Enders said The other log cabin is at Fort Buenaventura in Ogden Valley The WadsworthFitzgerald log cabin was built in 1851 Mr Enders said the Deuel restora his wile The gun ea A delegation of Brighton High School students placed first in two categories at a national Model United Nations competition in New York The school placed first in outstanding delegation and outstanding research Students prepared for the competition in their class and by doing research at the library The 37 students represented the United States in the competition against 144 schools and nearly 3000 students They competed in the United Nations Building The class sponsored a basketball game between Brighton High School faculty and Rock 103 raising $785 for the trip Brighton students took third place in the competition in 1988 BUY egister for AYSO Soccer now! 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No Gimmick! et The Sandy American Youth Soccer Organization Place: Alta Canyon Sports Center I off-ram- p tion took four months which included disassembling the home and rebuilding it -It was like a jigsaw puzzle" he said Each log was numbered during the dismantling and the entire cabin was studied piece by piece Mr Enders said Mr Enders said the home probably was not built by the Deuels since they were a wealthy family that could pay for the lob cabin to be built It probably cost the family $40 to $60 for the house The Deuels lived in the home the fall and winter of 1847 At that time it was located in the north annex of the Salt Lake Valley fort which is where the Rio Grande railway station stands today When the Deuels moved another family settled in the home Later the house was moved to about 100 N West Temple where it stayed until about 1912 at participating merchants Save 31 720 Soccer Organization Place: Cottonwood Heights Community Spa field He said when you hold the ends of a forked stick in your hands the other end becomes slightly charged It's this charge that's attracted to the magnetic field "Not everybody can witch be 690! KIKK ltS7 around Mr Filcher said the water moving underground sets up a magnetic 630 TO SOCCER 14 That's why water laws prohibiting people from drilling wells too close to each other don't make any sense according to Mr Filcher He said there's more than enough water to go TALK JUST LISTEN R all" 11-75- - AYSO GIRL PLAYERS: GO-GET-HE- e 1 161E-179-11 I We will try to place you and your friend on the same team AND you will receive uniform patch! a o" Draper Group to Restore Historic Cabin veva Sor Filchers father was often Mr ' ' 1 ' - -" 14 I : i " :"i' ' - - ' - ' fa- - sa d Ilef01 Filcher is "witching" for water Its a tradition in his family that goes back to his great grandfather and beyond Mr Filcher grew up in east Texas where a lot of folks think water is in short supply much like Utah But when the Filchers live in your neighborhood nothing could be less true Water apparently runs in the Pitcher family Mr Filcher learned the craft of witching from his father who learned it from his father before Mr -- 4! r-- 91 Water witching is a family tradition that fa started with Paul Pilcher's great-gran- Pm stream" ''''''' " ' —Pitts"? — ' ' - " " ' I 7m: ?' r1- c " : 4'' - ! olg-- t -' 4t '' -‘i rki "''': ' : Ai' : : 40 ' -- - A "'-'- ' 4 " - e ! 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''' 1 - 'I '' 4 $4- l ‘'t'feri: 4 41 ''- ' fte ''' f k ::''' '' : 'S - cause not everybody has enough electricity in them" Mr Filcher said "But there's no magic or hokuspokus to it at all" Mr' Filcher said any kind of wood will work for witching as long as it's green and strong enough to withstand the pressure Ite said he's had sticks break in his hands before Mr Filcher said witching is the way to find the underonly sure-firground streams but there are other ways to detect them as well He said trees will grow taller over the streams and ants also dig their holes over them "Ants can't survive in the desert without water just like humans So find you a good ant hill and dig to the east or west of it You'll find your water" Mr Filcher said Mr Filcher first brought his witching skills to Utah in 1945 after a stint as a Navy pilot in World War Not long after he came to Utah he offered to help a construction company find water for a new subdivision He found the water and they paid him $50 He's been witching all over the West ever since "I've been all over Utah Arizona and Nevada I've picked up enough money doing it to send my sons on missions" Mr Filcher said Mr Filcher doesn't do as much witching now as he used to because it's harder for him to get around But every now and then someone will notice his sign by the 9000 South on Interstate 15 and give him a call Not much later he'll be out with his forked stick witching up a well for someone ing you can go all the way to China and never hit nothing" Mr Filcher said most people are a little skeptical about his skill In fact he said people usually feel it's "just so much hoo-doBut Mr Filcher claimed his skill is based on scientific fact and there's no magic or witchcraft involved at all It just takes a little practice "A lot of people come by and laugh at me when I'm out witching so I just hand them the stick and tell them to try it The next time I see them they're going over the hill — witching" he laughed Mr Filcher said there are streams of water running underground He said there are a lot more of them than people would ever imagine The streams run all the way from Colorado to Utah and on to Nevada and beyond according to Mr Filcher He said they always run from east to west "Utah is a state great in natural resources and water is one of the greatest" Mr Filcher explained "But people don't understand that and politicians understand it least of 4 "''' r tCY - ' M- - - - 6 I i I 4 k 7' - I i e |
