GENTLEMEN:--I notice that at a meeting of your honorable Club, Mr.
Latimer read an essay upon the subject of the "Divining Rod," and
seemed to be at a loss to know how to tell whether the rod's
movements pointed to or indicated any particular substance under
the earth. I am now seventy-three years of age, and have been
studying and experimenting with it since twenty years of age. I am
not satisfied what causes the motion of it in my hands, but by
experimenting, I can tell to a certainty whether I am over any
substance, either water or mineral, or whether it is sulphur, salt
or any other kind of water.
I am glad that investigation in this is being made by scientific
men, and hope some day it may profit man. For any information you
may want, address me at Brownsville, Tennessee.
Very respectfully,