Show MEDIUM FINDS MINE FOR JUDGE GOODWIN The Ely Record in a a. recent issue bAuo pub pub- the following following- story The Nevada ada Mining News each cach week d devotes considerable of oC Its space to a de department do- do In that paper In which Is b de detaIled detailed detailed de- de tailed reminiscences of oC the early history of oC tho time state under the heading of oC By Dy Bythe By Bythe the Bye De In tho time early TOe jO there was wa a a. woman oman on In the Comstock Mrs Bowers Dower wife Ire of or Sandy Bowers who professed to b bo a Sho She wrote to a friend of or hers from Virginia City in tho those o days das that If It Jud Judge Goodwin now editorial writer for forTH TH SALT LARD LAKE EVENING TELEGRAM TELEGRAM TELE TELL GRAM and editor and proprietor of oC Goodwins Goodwin's Weekly at Salt Lake would JOto go JO goto goto to a certain place In the eastern part of or orthe the tho state statu ho he would find a a. mine amine and should mako make some ome monc money A reporter of oC tho the Mining News in conVersation conversation con cnn at nt R fleno no last week with a n. former for tor- mer mar resident of ot the tho Comstock succeeded in getting tho time details of or tho the story which Is 13 published In that paper in its issue of or December 10 as follows A great many people have laughed about tho the old lad lady but she sho ho saw sa some ome things sure In tho the early arl winter of or 1869 he ahe he wrote to Mrs Thomas Fitch that If It Judge Goodwin would go 10 to a place rort forty miles s from Hamilton up imp a canyon canon a n. mile or two to he would find a n. mine there out of ot h he could mako make some Mme mone money In Inthe Inthe the time spring of nC 1870 Goodwin ed cd a n Ittel letter letter let let- ter tel from Ayres Ares Putnam who had the Inland Empire in Hamilton Hl asking him to como come there and assist alst in running time tho paper He went ent and was all editor of or the lie paper until December when hem an old friend told toM him ho lie h had imad l a Interest In all tho the mines In f Eureka Eureka Eureka-an an n oven even Interest t with Bud Bateman and Collier Robbins Rob Rob- I bins that bins that t If Ir he ime would go 10 out aut there anti and look after his business for a week or two to when ho Ito came hi he would build him a t furnace fur tur- nace ivice and they would s sell Re-II Ml him ore as cheaply as an any one He lie J went on only I to find that his hla friend had forfeited his Inter Interest in In- In ter terest st In the mines minIs and was as himself in tact fact bankrupt Ho Ito owed omd more mora in San Sn Francisco than timan nil all his hiI stock wa was worth Goodwin leas leased the tho furnace without any am roof and went to buying ore aro and charcoal Later he got Kot a a. bond on the Jackson mine Ho lie paid for the mine paid for tor tho the fur- fur mince naco and built another furnace and a fine furnace build building In The Tue next summer Hon lion Thom Thomas s Fitch was a n. candidate for tor congress J and came to Eureka and told Goodwin ln he would like to go a and see sec time the minors miners Fo So GoodIn Goodwin Goodwin Good Good- win In got a fL buggy and started for tor the mine Going up tip th time the can canyon on Fitch asked d him what the canyon was as called calIt d and the reply wan wan- Rf The bo boys call It Goodwins Goodwin's c canyon m on J Is time the minI mine up at the head h of or this t canyon asked Fitch Yes Ves es you ou can see the dump ump from here How far tal Is IA this place from ron Hamilton wag was tho time next que question And Goodwin re re- re plied led Fort Forty miles mile And then Fitch said ald What do you ou think of or Mrs Irs Bowers Dowers now no It was as true It wa was Just rort forty miles from Hamilton and It was wis HI up a 1 canyon And there WA was n II little which made d Goodwin ln a a. a few fw dollars Goodwin's Goodwins b belief II always wa was AS that a good spirit for fo once came m to s-ep s pp Mrs frs flowers Bowers and md Inspired h her r nn and ana tha that t with Hh her th there rp were ere more morp things thin In heaven heave and earth rth than she could rould ex explain i plain b by o her pe peep p stone She was a 1 won won I old girl I |