Bio: Davis, Damon W. (Mysterious Well - 1913)

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----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark Co., Wis.)  01/03/1913

Davis, Damon W. (Mysterious Well - 1913)

"A mystery has recently developed down at the town of Three Pines, and the inhabitants of that village are wondering just what manner of thing is dwelling beneath the earth there.  Last July Damon W. Davis dug a well on his property.  It was a good well as wells go, being six feet square in the clear and 41 ½ feet deep.  It was excavated through granite soil all the way, and at the bottom a water vein was struck that gave six feet of the fluid in the excavation.  For a while the well was on its good behavior, but last Saturday night a series of commotions disturbed it, a passer hearing noises that sounded as though some great animal were floundering about.  Later in the night other disturbances came from it, each one leaving the water murky and roiled.  One of the commotions Saturday night was so severe that it shook the house 20 feet away and awakened the sleepers within.  Sunday night, the phenomena was repeated many times, the disturbance seemingly coming from the bottom of the well and forcing the column of water upward.  It come with much force, but the volume of the water within the well is not greatly increased after each "explosion."  Mr. Davis now proposes to put a gasoline engine on the pump at the well, pump it dry, and see just what there is at the bottom.  He says that the vein of water was found in a narrow strata of yellow clay that cut across the bottom, and that the water came into the well very rapidly when the formation was encountered."