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THE INTERMOUNTAIN NEWS • NOVEMBER 3, 2004 • PAGE 7BIG VALLEYHOMECOMINGFRIDAY VERSUSGREENVILLEMOE’S PIZZA AND BARBECUE111 Highway 299 • Bieber • 294-5166United Country Mountain Valley Realty109 Hwy 299 • Bieber • 294-5722Associate Realtors Kelly St. John & Cory Eades • Broker Buzz EadesBIG VALLEYHOMECOMINGFRIDAY VERSUSGREENVILLEBIG VALLEYHOMECOMINGFRIDAY VERSUSGREENVILLEFRANK WATKINS AGENCY100 North Market Street • Bieber • 294-5677GOCARDINALSBurney barber awarded top dowser honors-From Page 1dormant until you learn touse it.”Using the tools of the trade- Y-rods and L-shaped metalrods for field dowsing or apendulum for map dowsing- a person with an open mindand sensitive hands can learnto dowse in a few minutes, hesaid.“Generally, out of 100people, only five or six cannot do it.“All children can do it andmost women can. Femalesgenerally have quicker reactionsto dowsing than maleswhen they are first learning,”Bracy said.The real key, he said, is “tolearn to ask the proper questionto get the proper answer.Ask and you shall receive.”Dowsers generally hold thetwo ends of a Y-shaped rod intheir hands as they walk overthe ground where they wantto locate a water source or awater pipe.The device “reacts” bypointing downward towards itwhen a source is locatedThe L-shaped rods areused in a similar fashion.A dowser holds one ofthe two thin metal L-shapedrods in each hand and, whenthe sought object is found,the rods cross each other orswing gently apart.Bracy has found water ormoved water from one locationto another more timesthan he can count.In the 1990’s, when Sierra-Pacific Industries wantedto install its power plantin Burney, they contactedBracy.“Supt. Gomez asked me tocome in and locate a well thatwould pump 500 gallons perminute (GPM) to operate thecooling towers.”Using aerial photos, Bracylocated a potential watersource when the crystal pendulumhe was using began tosway.“We went out there andput a stake in the ground and,with a 25 horse power pumpon it, it produced 500 GPM,”Bracy said,Several months later, theplant’s new superintendent,David Root, contacted Bracy.“He wanted to put in abackup well,” said Bracy, whofound another location thatalso produced 500 GPM witha 25 HP pump.When Bob Ackers purchasedthe Hunt Ranch inAdin, “he got ahold of mebecause he wanted to put intwo well locations (producing)a minimum of 2,000 GPM.“There were only two orthree wells in all of Big Valleythat would produce 2,000GPM,” Bracy said.Since this was a 10,000-acre property, “and I wasn’tgoing to walk any 10,000acres,” Ackers brought Bracya map.“I located two spots within10 to 15 minutes. The firstwell I put in put out 3,400GPM. The second was 3,600GPM.”Asked for specifics, Bracysaid, “We drove up there andhe took me to within 50 feetof the spots. I put a stake inthe ground. That’s where theydrilled. That was it.”The ranch was later sold tothe Department of Fish andGame for the Ash Creek Fishand Wildlife Area.Bracy said he’s put in“quite a few wells” in locationsat the Big Eddy Estatesin Fall River Mills.And he located fresh waterfor the contractor who wasbuilding Black Butte JuniorHigh School in Shingletown.“They had all kinds ofwater, but it was salt waterfrom a 600-foot hole they’ddrilled.“They needed a minimumof 30 GPM and I found 60GPM, 125 feet down. Thelocation was 30 feet outsidethe contractor’s portableoffice.”Bracy has been dowsingfor 40 years and teaching forabout 30 years.Dowsers are often depictedusing a forked branch from awillow tree, but Bracy saidthat today it’s easier to usea Y-shaped nylon plasticdevice.“I don’t cut a switch anymore.They dry out soeasily.”Born and raised in Colorado,Bracy became intriguedwith dowsing after watchingsomeone else do it.“I tried it and it worked andthen I had to find out why. Ihad to know and that’s whenI got involved with the AmericanSociety of Dowsers,” hesaid.He is one of about 4,500members of ASD and hasserved as a trustee for sevenyears and awards chairmanfor 17 years.He believes he is theonly member to have beenawarded a Bachelor of TechnologyMaster Degree.He and his wife movedto the Intermountain area in1966. They’ve been married62 years and have twin 61-year-old daughters.He frequently lectures forthe society and in 1987 astudent in his advanced mapdowsing class at the Universityof California, Santa Cruz,made a request.“This fellow owned theMendocino Water Works inWillits and a man in LowerLake had called to ask himif he could possibly locate adowned aircraft on a map.“His daughter’s husbandwas one of the five peopleon the plane and, in spite ofaerial and ground searches,had been missing for sixdays.”The former student soughtBracy’s help.“It’s easy to locate on apiece of paper,” said Bracy. “Ipulled out a Triple A map ofNorthwestern California andby dowsing it showed me theplane was down by the lowerportion of Ruth Lake in veryrugged country on the Humboldt-Trinitycounty line. Theyfound the plane one-quartermile from the spot four hourslater. All had died.”Perhaps stranger andmore difficult to understandis Bracy’s ability to find andremove geopathogenic radiation,or unhealthy earth radiation.He said it can cause healthproblems in homes and thatsome people or more susceptibleto it than others.He is frequently asked tocheck for radon gas poisoning,something he says hecan do from a piece of paper.All he needs is a rough outlineof someone’s home, withthe front door indicated, theowner’s name and addressand “I can clear the house.”He asks for payment inadvance but holds the checkfor two weeks to be sure thecustomer is satisfied.“If they’re not, I send thecheck back. I’ve sent fourchecks back in the over 200I’ve done,” he says.Bracy works with a veterinarian,who has her own Website and does “remote holistichealing on animals all overthe world.“If the animals do notrespond to her treatments,she has them send her a mapof their house or stables andshe sends it by FAX to me.“I check it for geopathogenicenergies, electromagneticenergies, and otherthings and clear the propertyof these energies.”After the harmful energyis removed, Bracy said, “Herhealing techniques takeplace.”He recently flew to KingCity on a water locating job forCaymus Vineyards of Rutherfordin the Napa Valley.“One of their field reps wasin my lecture class years agoand I helped him find water inMexico and five months agoI dowsed for water on 2,000acres they are consideringbuying for vineyards,” hesaid.Four weeks ago, the vineyardrep again contactedBracy for a new vineyard siteunder consideration.The business picked himup at the Fall River Mills airportand flew him to King Cityto dowse for water.“They had four maps for4,000 acres and I foundnine well locations,” he said,adding that he hasn’t heardyet if the well driller foundwater.It is these kinds of jobsthat are tiring nowadays andwhy he’s happy to have a fewdays off cutting hair at hisbarbershop on Main Street.“We flew out of Fall Riverat 9 a.m., drove around theKing City property in a fourwheeldrive, and I was backin Fall River at 4 p.m.”Still, it’s work he is notready to give up.“It’s so beneficial to otherpeople and it gives me selfsatisfactionto teach others.”As Dowser of the Year2004, Bracy received aplaque and a crocheted wallhanging of The Dowser’sPrayer which reads: “Lord,Guide my hands, enhancemy sensitivity, and bless mypurpose, That I may be aninstrument of Your powerand glory in locating what issearched for.”