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Show were made twice this depth without any sign of water, the puzzled diviner sent 'samples of the earth to the gov ernment research institute in Vienna. The institute announces that the earth has the highest radium content yet discovered in Europe. It Is stated that 11,000 tons would yield a kilogram kilo-gram of pure radium. The field is buried only nine- feet down, has a depth of from four to eight feet, and extends a considerable distance. Digging Well, He Finds Richest Radium Field Vienna. The richest! radium field in Europe has been discovered at Neu-haus, Neu-haus, near Linz, in upper Austria, by a water diviner, Herr Franz Niegl. A peasant, Franz Maier. about to dig a well, summoned Herr Niegl, who, using an old silver watch on a silver chain as, a pendulum, obtained such violent reactions that he guaranteed thfi' an abundance of water would be found nine feet down. When borings |