"Pour-Off Hollow," about 200 yards from the banks of the Brazos River on the old Couts Anderson Ranch, is a most surprising hollow, to come upon suddenly, and it is just exactly what the name suggests, its a pour-off hollow.

While driving down the ranch road you see a small ravine, not much larger than an ordinary ditch, that parallels the road.  Suddenly the ravine ends and you look down into a yawning opening in front of you down 100 feet to the next bit of ground.  This sudden drop is a complete surprise, covered as it is by tree tops growing from the ground below.  This is how it gets the name "Pour-Off Hollow" for that's just what it is  in a rainstorm.

If you want to go down to the next level of earth, Mother Nature has been kind enough to place a tree growing at an angle in front of you, so you gingerly climb into the tree top and slowly descend the inclined trunk to the lower level.

There at your feet is a circular pool of water, dark green looking and the pool is always full.  No one ever remembers it going dry.  No one knows the depth of the pool either.  In fact, albino fish are said to swim in the pool.  We can't verify that because we didn't see any.

About fifty yards from the pool buried under an overhanging limestone cliff Floyd S. Studer of Amarillo and John Doss of Mineral Wells found the burying place of two Indians.  They were found lying uncovered on a shelf of rock.  Two skeletons, pieces of small pottery, broken bows and arrows and small polished stone beads were found.

One of the skulls we used for a paper weight to hold down radio script last summer when the wind used to blow it all over the place in our studio in Morningside.  We later moved it back to Pops arrowhead collection case, when visitors shied away from the microphone that was by the skull.  (To this day we don't know whether they were shying from the mike or the skull).

The other skull was presented to the science department of Mineral Wells High School and reposed in the high school trophy case for many years.

This Indian burial was found in 1932, possibly the last Indian burial place found at such a late date.

Rock ledges and points of hills seem to be the favorite burying places for the Indians that call Palo Pinto County home.

More Indian facts keep turning up in this county.

Theadwell, arrowheads collector of note, found some unusual curved and fancy points when the Negro housing project land was cleared in Southeast Mineral Wells.

The last of Crystal Canal that meanders along its way parallel with Sough Oak has been the scene of many arrowhead findings of late.  Clayton Herrin has unearthed about six manos from his front rosebush bed.  We even found one not ten feet from our broadcasting studio.  We've also picked up arrowheads all over Morningside, evidently springs must have been located in this vicinity else the Indians wouldn't have liked the spot so well.

For a hobby you can't beat arrowhead hunting.  Its healthful, gets you out of doors, makes you develop a definite sense of perception in trying to spot them and there isn't any thrill bigger than the thrill of finding one where some Indian left it under eight inches of top soil -- so many years ago.