Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1913 — Automatic Water Finder. [ARTICLE]

Automatic Water Finder.

No thoroughly reliable automatic water finder has yet been discovered. A peculiarly designed magnetic needle has been employed for years, but is by no means invariably successful. One designer has employed electricity in connection with magnetism in the form he not quite correctly designated galvanism, but his results have met with much criticism. It is wiser not to depend upon any of the advertised mechanical water or mineral finders, so far as to make financial investment In them, at this stage of our knowledge of the subject.