The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
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he was showing the Prince of Wales
retinue that the Washoe miner had some
money to spend The decorations were
done by fresco artists who came pur-'
posely to the Pacific coast for the purpose.
The velvet carpets came from Europe,
and in those days of the Civil war ana
high costoms duties the expense must
have been great. There was statuary
all over the house, for Sandy bought
quantities of it when he was in Italy
In 1854 the tide of Sandy Bowers for
tune began 10 ebb and in the fall OF 1864
the income from the mines had fallen OH
50 per cent. Sandy and his associates
believed that the decline was only tenn
porary. There seemed to them heap
of ore yet to be worked. In 1860 and
1866 the income fell off every month. In
November 1866, Mr.. Bowers income ceas-
ed and from that time until his death IN
May, 1868, the couple maintained their
extravagant life by selling off the ar
ticles in their home The parlor furni-
ture went in a lump to the Washoe Club
in Virginia City at a sacrifice. When
Sandy Bowers died he left the mansion
mortgaged and somewhat dismantled. The
widow met with many financial disasters
and before she knew it there was a sher-
iff at the door to take the place Tor dent.
That was in 1869. From that day to this
Mrs. Bowers has gained a livelihood by
u
miners have a tender spot in their hearts
for one who has had vicissitudes of for
tune like their own, only in much
greater degree, and they have always
been generous with the old woman. She
has told fortunes and cast the horoscope
for hundreds of Nevada and California
miners until she has become known as
the Washoe seeress. She goes from camp
to camp and town to town. Occasionally
a man who knew her when she spent
hundreds of dollars with scarcely
thought and when she wore only Paris
made gowns gives Mrs. Bowers gold
piece for memory's sake. She seldom
murmurs at her poverty and sometimes
she even smiles at the way she and Sandy
threw a million dollars away.
Reminders of Former SplendOr.
The ruins of Sandy Bowers manson
NAV be seen to-day amid the pine trees
on the mountain side. midway between
Carson City and Washoe. Thousands of
neonle have visited the spot, and wonder
ed at the extraordinary vicissitudes OF
fortune in the mining camps. In the yard
where Sandy Powers spent a small tor-
tune in making a garden with FOUNTAINS
rookerfes. artificial grottoes and lapy-
rinth of flower beds ferneries and winding
walks. only an enormous granite fountain
remains. Water still runs in huge BASIN
and bows who occasionally romp through
the ruined residence go swimming IN the
basin. The grottoeS are heaps of tumbled
stones. Sage brush and clumps of grass
have overgrown the walks and obllterated
the fowerbeds. The roof of theStable IS
ia Hing. and not vestige remains OF the
aviarv. which was a show feature TO WIS.,
itors in Washoe and Gold Hill a genera
lion ago. In the house birds nest in the
rooms where the Bowerses USED 10 give
suppers, and where poker
games. involving thousands of dollars were
nlaved nv Comstock millionaires. The PIC
tut,es. the statuary and the books were
sold so long ago that they are only rem
iniscence now The silver doorknobs ana
the golden-tipped stair rods were sold TO
Gambling house in Virginia CITY years
ago. and are now scattered as relics all
over .evada and California.
ont i'm front of the silent, ruined mousse
and the wreck of beautiful grounds IS
tunoble-down wooden fence about tnN
SQUARE of sage brush and chaparral. Inc
unmarked grave of Sandy Bowers is there.
Thirtv-three years ago the body was borne
70 the grave, amid all the pomp and glory
mar money could buy in the mining town
No one ever goes there nowadays Inc
nine trees have grown rank about the
grave and in the breezes that come down
the valley they seem to be ceaselessly
,nurmuring a simple requiem over the
crumbling vanities of Mr. and Mrs. Sandy
RoWers.