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Show THITRSPAY, AUGUST . 25, 1960 Utaft County. "Utah DAILY HERALD 8 Mansion Fabulous 'lime Sfill a WtWM&Biomiin Virginia City ' Y ers. Eilley had little but her big to 1903 the mace was abandoned. with .the GROESBfcCK i claims staked KATHRYN D. left open for anyone to enter along, By . stone house. them. sell to hev7anted Still feeling 'that wealth would or sleep on the floor. Queen of the Comstock! That's others, come again from the mines, ;N0W it is in th hands nf svm. what they called Eilley - Orrum who looked - into the Vapors- - front EiUev in 1874 opened her home pathetic ones,, who are v attemptBowers. Eilley;'; was , a Scotch him advised ball and to restore it to its Jormer thevcrystal if as a-- sort of resort for the public ing girl, who, at 15, was converted to to , hold -- on. She said tne two oi to at a small fee and borrowea grandeur for all interested, the Mormon faith; Shortly after- them would eventually take great " .": see. money to improve-- ' the place to wards, she came to Utah, there Wealth out of the ground they man a attract children as well as their iMany tourists visit there. to marry a Bishop Hunter, " v ' claimed. Children are always welcome. elders. much older than she. and .'of her plan paying off That is what' Eilley wanted a Kindly Sandy believed her During their 10 years of mar- held on. . mm ' Instead i only sad-- ! home filled with many happy i Mm financially, it brought life riage the elder took three more 1859, the great' Corn-stoc- k In June, cycle guests. The Comstock fi 'J ness. wiyes, young nieces of Eilley's Lode was discovered with a; was drawing to close and tak'brought over from t Scotland. the strips owned by Eilley and goods that ing with it the - "Finding life as a polygamist's to be part of it. proving Sandy were Eilley's. wife not to her liking, Eilley ob- Thus the fabulous riches Eilley moved in as Eilley Creditors later remarried had predicted would be 'theirs tained a divorce, to 'move put, now was forced a ' Mormon - farmer, . Alexander began pouring in for the two, beloved Persia had for her alone, : Cowan, and was more than who married the following Aug, " t V to be'buried along died A i4 previously pleased to leave Great Salt Lake ust and began their 'new. life.; ner two uauica ana with sanay City with him and a colonizing As Eilley had seen inher on behind the house. the hill group in 1855. for what was then visions, ; Virginia - City sprang to On Virginia City she went called western Utah. ,s into being with thousands. of gold and then to Reno and eventually StAITT LAKE CITY (UPI) There (now.'Carson City, Ne- seekers pouring into the desert STRUCK - IT RICH to San Francisco, where she en Eilley farmGden R. Swenson of the wherever Director for "anddigging vada), they staked land country -- Bower$, a home for the aged. In tered girl ;Scotch Orrum ';. in some ground. ing ; near a granite mountain they could claim came 1903, at the age of 77, she died State Building Board said Tuesa Mormon, became who and In no time at all, Sandy an area of deserj waste and wound and her ashes were returned to day Utah is engaged in the largest barren hills, but with warm Eilley were reaping $50,000 to to Utah; and .ultimately chil building program in the state's up in:Virginia City where she lie beside Sandv and her ' , history. springs near the mountain. And $100,000 a month from their on dren on the hill. claims with rich it struck In it .' He said since Jan. 1, 1957, the as others were dMng,jthey staked rich source and investing Though the Bowers mansion the Comstock Lode. , out claims on Gold Hill in 1858. board has planned, ' supervised lumberyards and other ; busiand times hands many changed nesses, besides spending it for Unhappy because al their was stripped of its raches, it and completed $13.4 million worth or some a wanted, of public buildings, 'adopted in anything they rope, Eilley happily efforts at farming resulted still survived. mother i whose foolishly. day-old An t additional $20.2 million worth it husvery baby girl, failure, Eilley urged her Today only because of the led of . and for . Their spending Sandy orgy died at sea, Eilley band to try his luck with the. care taken m its building of construction of puiblic buildtwo babies great where to own pur they them their Europe, had lost seekers. does it still stand for from 1876 ings is now in progress, he said. gold j and furnishings materials birth. chased accomshortlyafter Before that could .be for the new "home to be built on With the new" baby, whom they plished successfully, the sum- the land Alex Cowan had bought Persia after the ship on named r" mons came from Erigham Young ri z near wy parson in the valley , which Bernarsailed, Eilley re for all loyal ones In San awarded her turned they been .hat had and reto with Sandy to the big dino and in Garson Valley would stone that a home the in divorce, as mansion, where they turn to Great, Salt Lake City the time of their in life and their generous United States, troops were head- be finished by gloried . return., Tneir blossomed.- hospitality ing for Utah." Hand-wove- n curtains lace tney furnishand its Most who came gave up all boueht and too. home created sumptuous rugs, hand-mad- e, an atmosphere fit a. out pitfor sold or had ings they vases and beautiful and pictures fwr a queen. , tance to rally to the call of their and elegant furniture for tne Then in 1868 the down hill leader. Alex .Cowan was among new mansion and silk, satin, and in alone back for Eilley when them, traveling; velvet clothes of the finest in trail began resnow-shoe- s. . at the : H - , -- , m - State Building ' Program Biggest In Utah History - - " . -- . Gov. Ross Barnefct and Mary start of Veterans of Foreign before together Wars parade in Detroit this week. Nearly 15,000 marchers took part in the 61st Telephoto) annual convention of the VFW. (Herald-UP- I MARY ANN'S IN THE NEWS AG Ann Mobley, Miss America of 1959, get AIN--Mississipp- i's -- a. ft . winter a Eilley mained behind with her log house and the hot springs and the big mountain of granite nearby. Eilley, then 31 years old, obtained her second divorce and let about making a living for herself near the gold seekers. She -- opened a boarding house and did washing and mending for the miners, among whom were ' Fennimore; who later christened Virginia City, and "Pancake" Comstock, who se name would be. given to the richest silver lode in the world. Eilley, who had 'enjoyed j. cry s tal balls as a means of foretelling the future, enyisioneA for herself fabulous riches ' from the claims she had staked out for h'erself. Then one of Her boarders; Jim Rogers, fell ill. Unable to "pay for his board and the care Eilley gave him; be persuaded her to take his deed for a claim on the Comstock. It seemed little in- deed; at the' time, for the great body of ore still lay unseen by "Vir-ginn- ' man.- - . y" Sandy died. Production mines had failed off and the severe winter followed by heavy rains had caused so much damage to jthe mines that Sandy working; at repair became ill and died of pneumonia at 38 years of age. Their business investments had proved bad ones. And their little claims that had showered them in 1863 alone with millions Sandy: took $1,000,000 out of hi mine had been worked out or had gone into the hands of oth- - Paris. Though the War of Secession was raging at the time and Union soldiers were getting their pay from Comstock silver, Sandy and Eilley Bowers in Europe for, a year and) a half were Duying everything that;' caught their fancy helping out her family as well in Scotland with the pure wealth from the .Comstock Lode. They had v "money for the t birds'! as Sandy put it. On their return trip from Eu- 1 SCHOOL'S MORG PUW WHEN SHE HAS ALL flil BACiif you can find a better skirt at Grants regular 2.98 HAHO-IHONIN- TtY IT ONCf, WITHOIfl n. ( r? 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