3/20/26 EC's ltr. to [
4278]:
Mr. [
4278]
..., Texas
My dear Mr. [
4278]
I was mighty glad to have your letter of the 14th, but sorry
indeed to know of the happenings there. No, I had not heard
anything of the condition until I received your letter,
though, as you suggest, the reading had indicated that it was
not an unexpected condition, UNLESS someone came to the
rescue. I'm certainly sorry to know though of this
misfortune, yet I'm sure you realize that you have a very
great deal to be thankful for, and I am not in any position
to give you advice or to tell you what you should do or
should not do; yet I am sure this has been a great
satisfaction to you, to insure your depositors against any
loss, even at the sacrifice of yours and your wife's savings,
and the greatest satisfaction that can possibly be in any
man's mind and heart is to be able to look every man square
in the face and tell him "I've treated you white."
As for your staging a come-back, this I'm sure will never be
necessary, for it will be the natural result of your life,
your turn of mind, and your disposition, for, carrying the
burdens of others, I am sure has been the undoing of your
personal savings and holdings, and without this hanging round
your neck, as it were, the natural thing will be to
accumulate more of this world's goods. One thing I'm sure
that I need not tell you, for I'm sure you have reached that
age where you realize there is a great deal more in this
world than the satisfaction of just having dollars and cents
for someone else to spend, or squabble over, when you have
passed on. While money is necessary, and it gives an earthly
prestige that perhaps nothing else does, still we are sure
that treasure laid up "where moth and rust doth not corrupt"
is the greatest asset to old age, and the greatest blessing
for the life to come.
Yes, I certainly wish that I could see you and talk with you
a while. I know of nothing that would give me any more
pleasure than to spend a few days with you. I'm certainly
mighty glad that you were able to save your home and that you
have the working opportunity of getting things straightened
out, and making a basis for future efforts. We know life
does not owe a man a living, only owes him the opportunity,
and man makes of that what he will or may. It is the same
way with the Church. It does not OWE man salvation, but it
offers him an OPPORTUNITY to gain salvation! Hence, man
should build not on his errors of the past, but of the
knowledge he has gained by his experiences, and thereby make
failure the stepping stone to success, financially and
spiritually, for we know good and bad by experience of
comparison.
Well, things have not changed materially with me since I last
wrote you. We certainly have a boom on in this place.
Whether my coming had anything to do with it or not, I don't
know! I am told it has never been as extensive as it has
been since I arrived in town, and there are literally
MILLIONS of dollars being spent here in improvements, and I
think, as I said to you, this is a wonderful place for a
bank. One has been established in the last few months. A
building is being erected for another. I certainly wish that
you and Mrs. [...] were here. You would make a clean-up here
in the real estate business! I wish you'd come over here and
do it. You could start without a penny, and in four or five
years make more than you've ever had. A tract of land that
sold here in 1914 for $500 sold a few weeks ago for $230,000,
and a house and lot is reserved out of that, which is valued
at $90,000 now. That gives you an idea of what is going on.
I don't know whether that you know of this or not. I'm sure
you know that I have done my level best to hold a string on
Rocky Pasture [[
4906] series? and [
5628] series?], where our
first well was drilled. I have succeeded in getting someone
interested in this sufficient to make a drilling contract
with Grandma Moore. I will hold some sort of an interest,
so, if this SHOULD prove a successful operation, we will yet
have SOMETHING out of the efforts that were expended in that
direction. Of course it may never mean anything, but I
haven't given up hope. I am in hopes that when these
operations begin I will be able to make a trip to Texas, and
you know if I ever do, I'll see you!
Now, Mr. [
4278] I hope you won't let so long a time go by
without letting me hear from you, for you know, no matter
what the circumstances or conditions are, I'm WITH you and
FOR you, and if it's ever possible for me to be of any help,
in any way, you know you only have to suggest same and I'll
be more than glad to try. I'm sure that the failure was hard
on Mrs. [...] yet I feel as certain that she has the
fortitude and ability to put it all aside and the willingness
to lend herself in every way to assist you in gaining your
desires. Please give her my kindest personal regards. I'm
mighty glad to say that all the family are well. My mother
and father have both been very ill this winter, but I
understand from the last letter that I had that they are both
on the improve.
Well, let me hear from you whenever you have the opportunity.
I'm sending you, under separate cover, one of my little
booklets. Tell me what you think of it.
With kindest personal regards, always,
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
Newspaper clipping [attached to below letter, Par. R4]:
San Saba Test
SAN SABA, Aug. 14. - Another Rocky Pasture oil test will be
made here. J. K. Wilmot of Wichita Falls is building a rig
on a location made one-half mile from the Casey [Cayce] test
drilled in rocky Pasture here a few years ago. [See [
5628]
series.]
8/17/26 [
4278]'s ltr. to EC:
Dr. Edgar Cayce
115 West 35th St.
Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Dr.
Have just noticed paper [See Par. R3 above] San Sabe Rocky
Pasture test for oil. Hope they get 70,000 barrels. Don't
WE!
We are well or common (?) Busy as a hunting dog - wish I
could see you & talk a week or more -
Crops sorry here again good feed sorry cotton 10 to 20 a (?)
to bale is present prospect.
Write me a long letter soon. [
4278]
8/21/26 EC's ltr. to [
4278]:
Dear Mr. [
4278] -
Certainly glad to have your note of the 17th, for I had been
wondering what i the world had become of you. I had a letter
and gave a reading for your brother in ... a few weeks ago -
had his report yesterday. [See 4279-1.] I wish you would
tell him, please, if he has any trouble getting his
prescription prepared there, that if he would send to Sellers
Drug Company, 4th avenue & 20th St., Birmingham, Ala., they
would prepare it for him and send it to him. It's necessary,
of course, that he send the whole reading, for the State, of
course, keeps a check on all readings and prescriptions that
are sent to this source - but they would fix it up for him.
No, I have no connection whatever with the drug store - wish
I did - trying my best now to arrange things so that when
prescriptions are given we will be able to prepare them here,
under the supervision, of course, of a physician that would
have charge of the work, also of preparing whatever
prescriptions that may be given in readings for people
anywhere in the country.
I note with a great deal of interest the little clipping you
had attached [See Par. R3 above]. They haven't Willmott's
name spelled correctly, nor his initial correct - but I've
told you all along I was going to work it, some way or other,
to get that well drilled, and I believe if Willmott starts
he'll shut his eyes and just go straight on until he gets to
twenty-six hundred anyway, and you know I'm hoping that he
gets a good one.
They are drilling too on the block adjoining the acreage we
have in Florida. They down to six hundred and seventy-five
feet, with a show of oil - setting casing. They don't expect
to get the big production though under about eighteen
hundred. I am in hopes that I'll be able to arrange a trip
to Florida, to see about the conditions there, for I believe
that our interests are such that they are worth looking
after, at least. I've got some connections with a man who
owns thirty-two thousand acres in fee adjoining the land that
we have the lease on. I want to see what can be done, if
anything.
Yes, we are keeping mighty busy. Our work here has
progressed as fast as we could ask it. Our appointments now
run up into October - that's two every day except Sunday from
now until then. The contributions haven't been as big as
they might have been, but we are living some way. I am
hoping that something will happen, or that I can get enough
interest from those I have tried to help in the last
twenty-five years to start the work on a hospital basis in
the next few months. It isn't that we have secured so much
local interest as yet (though that's on the increase also),
but apparently those who have known me or known of me the
longest are just beginning to realize the assistance that it
is possible for them to get. I've had more requests for
readings in the last few months from my home town than I had
during all the time I ever lived there. I have had more in
the last three weeks from Selma, where I lived twelve years,
than I did the whole twelve years I lived there. So,
possibly the work speaks for itself.
I certainly am in hopes that your brother follows out the
suggestions that were given for him.
Well, Mr. [
4278] write me the news, and what's going on
around ... You all have certainly had some hot political
fight, from the newspaper reports - peculiarly enough, we
have had several requests from Austin in the last few weeks,
and some from people that are associated in the State
department. They have sent us some of the papers and told me
something about what was going on. You know I feel a great
interest in the affairs of the State, for I think I have some
of the best friends I have in the world in the State - some
people I love as well as I do my own family.
Give my regards to all the friends who ever ask about me. I
certainly do wish that I could see you and talk with you, and
I'm hoping yet that I will have the opportunity to get there
before the year is out.
Had a letter from our friend [
4543] sometime ago. [
4543] did
me a dirty trick - sent me a check and it was returned.
Well, let us hear from you.
With kindest personal regards to you and Mrs. Mc,
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
4/09/31 Mr. [
4278] wrote that he had for some time been a
travelling salesman for a rubber company, that he was still
paying back his share of 100% to depositors - still owed
around a thousand dollars.
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