Several months before we even looked at our property, I helped a friend with finding a new employer.  My friend was in the banking industry doing mortgages.  He was looking to change banks.  I told him I went to church with a board member of a local bank.  He e-mailed me his resume and I drove it down to my church friend.  He said they were looking for somebody in the area the guy lived.  Well, my friend got the job.  The Lord was setting things up for us.

I had talked to my banking friend (who I will call Bill) about the property we had found.  He pulled our credit score and said it was so high that we would not have a problem getting a loan.  He asked how much did I want to put down and I said nothing.  He said no problem.  After our biding, I went to Bill and he put us a package together.  We got the loan on the land for nothing down and a good interest rate.  This was unheard of. 

Before closing, Bill called me one day and said we had a problem.  The property was in two tracts, not one.  One tract was 95 acres and one was 5 acres.  The 5 acre tract was where the old mill sits.  That tract had a title problem.  It was never transferred to the present owner with a legal document.  Bill wanted to know what we wanted to do.  We ended up closing on the 95 acres and waited on the 5 acres to get the title fixed.  By doing that we ended up having that 5 acre tract free and clear from a mortgage. 

We had a map of the property that had the spring marked on it.  I tried to find it several times, but never could locate it based on the map.  One day I decided to walk the length of the property to see if I could find the spring.  Our property runs for about a mile along a ridge.  Almost at the end of the property I finally found it.  It was more than I ever expected.  When I thought of a spring, I thought of a small amount of water coming out of the ground or the side of a hill.  Was I shocked!  The locals know about this spring.  When I found it, the opening of the spring was up some on the side of a ridge.  It had several black ½ inch pipes coming out of it that brought water down to where the creek is.  These pipes were used by the locals to fill up 600 gallon tanks on the back of flat bed trucks.  Some use the water for watering cattle, for irrigation or personal water. 

Boy, there was some water coming out of that spring!  Later I did an experiment to get an idea of how much water was coming out of the spring.  I filled a 5 gallon bucket up in 7 seconds.  That was the water coming out of two pipes.  There is a third pipe and water flowing out of the mouth, also.  By my calculation, I figured that the spring was putting out 200-300,000 gallons of water each day.  We have it tested three times and it has always turned up pure.  When we first started looking for land my brother from Ohio said be sure you have water on the property.  Well, we have plenty of water!   Later the realtor saw the spring and said he would think it is the largest one in the county. 

There was only one concern!  The spring was land locked for us.  We had to cross another man’s property to be able to get to it.  Another problem?  No, another working of the Lord!

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