Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1914 — GOT HIS “THINK-TANK” GOING [ARTICLE]

GOT HIS “THINK-TANK” GOING

Mexican Farmer Proved He Was Capable of Invention When Object Was to Save Labor. That the Mexican farmer is not the slow-thinking, lazy person the average stranger imagines is illustrated by an ingeniously devised well constructed by a farmer living near a little town just across the boundary line. The natives seldom go far away from their homes and they have very primitive ideas and customs. This well is about 50 feet deep and the owner has built a curious device for hauling water from it If this Mexican bad been an educated man he might have been an Inventor A tree flourished near the well which had two branches growing out of the trunk. These boughs separated into four branches higher up. The Mexican- cut the branches in such a way that they formed a perfect rest for a long well sweep. He fastened the sweep to a crossbar laid across the two upper branches in the middle, using*' stout thongs for the purpose. Then he fastened a weight on one end of the sweep and a long rope to the other end. The bucket is fastened to the end of this long rope, and all he has to do is to lower the buckets into the well. The weight of the stone pulls it up again, brimming full. ■■4 —' -