1/11/27 EC's ltr. to [
4906]:
115 West 35th Street,
Virginia Beach, Va.
Mr. [
4906],
Box 148, San Saba, Texas
My dear Mr. [
4906]:-
I suppose you are wondering what must have happened to me,
even after I had asked Miss Davis to send you the reading
that was gotten the latter part of December. I certainly am
in hopes that the information was worth while, though I
presume from your last letter it hardly told you just what to
do with the proposition in Rocky - but I am in hopes that you
have been able to handle the situation there, and that things
are getting in better shape for you.
A little explanation I am sure is due you, as to why we were
so long in getting the reading after receiving yours of the
7th of December. I do not mean this as an excuse, but rather
as the statement of conditions, and I'm sure you will
understand the situation. As you know, I am giving my whole
time in trying to help others that are physically ill, and
the very nature of the work is such that I am only able to
give just so many each day under ideal circumstances. About
the middle of October, my Mother was taken seriously ill, and
I went to be with her until the end - which we knew and
realized couldn't be very long off. She passed away on the
26th. Being away from my work, naturally this delayed a
great many appointments that had been made, as well as making
accumulations of many requests that had to be handled, and in
trying to get up with the work, it required my making
appointments very close and not leaving any time open for
unexpected requests - which we try under normal circumstances
to do - that is, leave dates open each week, that such
requests may be handled. So, at the time your letter came,
we were already booked up so closely that it was not until
the reading was taken that we had an opportunity to get to
it. I assure you it is not a lack of interest, nor a lack of
the feeling that I want to be of help if possible - for I do
not know of anything that I am more optimistic about than the
operations there in Rocky, for I believe you are going to
carry it on through and I feel just as sure of the success if
it is carried through. New Year's Day I was taken ill
myself, and haven't been able to dictate a letter nor do
anything until today. Didn't miss pneumonia very far. So
that is the status of conditions.
Now, I am in hopes that you are going to find opportunity to
let me hear from you more often, and I am in hopes that you
will not hesitate in asking that readings be given, if you
feel they will in any way prove of benefit to you - and if we
do not get it - that is, the information you want - in the
first one, let's take the second one or third one! for I
verily believe they CAN be of help if applied correctly, and
I believe you are one that knows how to apply them in the
right way and manner. It hasn't been any easy job, I assure
you, to get back to normal work after the death of my mother.
I feel that you know what such a loss means to any man. We
never get to the point where we do not rely upon the council
and the advice from our mothers. Her last message to me
seems to me to have been worth while, for she said to me, a
few hours before the end came: "Son, your mother is going to
die. You have kept her alive for three years, but you can do
no more. But you must use the gift that God has given you to
help others. Be a good boy, and meet Mother in Heaven."
That, I think, Mr. [
4609], would be an incentive to any
red-blooded man, to say nothing of the hundreds of letters
that we receive from time to time from those who have been
helped, and it is just such expressions that has made me want
to be prepared to serve suffering humanity better - and
that's why I want the institution, and I feel too that's why
you are desirous of being able to help me to be able to serve
others better.
I am of the opinion at the present time that in the next two
or three weeks I am going to make a trip, and it will
possible be of two or three weeks duration. You possibly
know explorations are being made for oil in Florida. I
believe I am correct in saying that the first intimation that
many had that there was a possibility of it being found there
was given in a reading several years ago [[
5741] series?].
Some of these same people who, with this information, had
their engineers and geologists to go over the country, are
now asking that I make specific locations, as they have
drilled several holes without success - but have obtained
sufficient evidences of the presence of the elusive fluid to
make them believe it is there. Hence they want specific
locations if I am able to make them. So I'd like to hear
from you again before I make this trip, if it is possible.
Yes, we have had quite a number of letters from individuals
to whom we have sent the little data we have gathered
together, who desire to be interested in the work I am trying
to do. There are contributions ranging from ten to a
thousand dollars a year for the next ten years. Of course
there are not a vast number of these as yet, but I believe
that I am correct in saying that we have evidence that many
others will be interested in what we are trying to do. Then,
so many are getting such wonderful results, that sooner or
later, I am sure, our numbers will be added to in sufficient
quantity to justify opening the institution with the
prospects of the continued contributions sufficient to take
care of the needs of same - and if the Lord is willing, and I
can preserve my health, I am in hopes that I may be the means
of bringing health and happiness to a great many people.
Now, in respect to your own situation, from the reading
[
5628-3] I believe it would be an unwise thing for you to
sell your holdings in the other field and invest them in the
San Saba field, without first drilling for the deeper
production, and I am in hopes you will make arrangements to
make this deep test very shortly, though I trust it doesn't
hold up your Rocky operations.
Let us hear from whenever you can, Mr. [
4609], won't you?
With kindest personal regards from all,
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
1/15/27 Mr. [
4906]'s letter: "Your nice letter came today.
It was waiting for me at the house when I came in, too late,
for at 10 o'clock at the well I had made a deal to let the
last half of my 1/4 interest at Baird go; the other half I
let go the day before the reading reached me. I appreciate
very much your effort to help me and I suppose I could not
have held on to my interest at Baird anyway, for I had no
partners - men with no qualifications - no real men at all.
All had money except me and they were eager to freeze me out,
and I took what I could get and wiped out the slate clean.
"I know you will be greatly disappointed to hear that I am
starting a new hole. The fishing job grew worse each day and
I finally had to plug it - the hole - up to the depth it was.
Cost me over $13,000. I moved 50 feet Northeast of my old
location, which was 130 paces Northeast of the junction of
the 2 creeks. The people here have been very nice. I got
them all to extend my leases a year longer, and that give me
until
9/01/28 to finish my test.
"I am starting my new hole feeling that I will have success,
just as I did the first one. Plugging this first hole has in
no way cooled my faith in the proposition, yet it has cripple
me financially and it will no doubt take me longer to finish
now than it would have in the first place.
"This second hole I will let no man run tower except myself.
I did wrong in trusting the hole to my tool-dresser. I did
not get the job myself. Anyway, this well I will carve with
my own hands from top to bottom. Do not be discouraged, for
Bud [
4906] does not start things and then fail, and if it
is God's wish for me to win I will get along alright. I feel
that I will get a big well, for down in my heart He knows
where the proceeds will go...
"Cayce, I wish before you go on your trip [to Florida] that
you would get me the answer to 3 questions: (1) Will the
move of 50 feet from my original location make any difference
in the outcome of the well? (2) Was the first location in
the correct place, to get the larger production? (3) Will I
find my partners honest, in a new deal that I am entering
into, in Pecos County, and will I get any wells out there?
"I wish you could see the rock we have blasted out, setting
the rig on the new location. I am putting in a huge dam
across Big Rocky that will insure me water during the summer
months.
"I want you to come here when the well is finished. I
believe I'll get a share in your hospital yet..."
1/30/27 See
5628-5.
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