The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1908-12-26
EARLY EUREKA "reminiscences
How Mrs. Bowers, a Medium,
Caused Judge Goodwin to
Get Into Mining Here

The Nevada Mining News each week
devotes considerable Of its space to a
department 10 that paper in which is
detailed "reminiscences of the early his
tory of the State under the heading
by the Bye"
In the early 70's there was a woman
on the Comstock. Mrs. Bowers, wife of
Sandy" Bowers, who professed to be a
seeress. She wrote to a friend of hers
from Virginia City in those days that If
Judge Goodwin, one of the early set.
tiers Of Eureka. now editor and pro-
prietor of Goodwin Weekly at Salt
Lake, would go to a certain place in
the Eastern part of the State he would
find a mine and should make some
money.
A reporter Of the Mining News, in
conversation at Reno last week with a
former resident Of the Comstock, sue.
ceeded in getting the details of the
STORY" which is published in that
paper in its Issue of December 10 as
follows:
"a great many people have laughed
about the old lady, bot she saw some
things sure. In the early Winter of so
she wrote to Mrs. Thomas Fitch that if
Judge Goodwin would go to a place 40
miles from Hamilton, up a canyon a
mile or two, he would find a mine there
out Of which he could make some
money. In the Spring of 20 Goodwin
received a letter from Ayres & Putnam
who had the Inland Empire in Hamil-
ton, asking him to come there and
assist in running the paper. He went
and was editor of the paper until De.
cember, when an old friend came and
lured him away to Eureka. The friend
told him that he had a quarter interest
in all the mines in Eureka-an even
interest with Buell., Bateman and
Collier Robbins-that if he would 60
out there aud look after his business
for a week or two, when he came he
would build him a furnace and they
would sell him ore as cheaply as any
one. He went, only to find that his
friend had forfeited his interest in the
mines and was himself, in fact, bank.
rupt. He owed more in San Francisco
than all his stock was worth. Good
win leased the furnace without any
roof and went to buying ore and char
coal. Later he got a bond on the Jack
son mine. He paid for the mine. paid
for the furnace and built another fur
mace and a fine furnace building.
1.-THE next Summer Hon. Thomas
Fitch was a candidate for Congress and
came to Eureka, and told Goodwin he
would like to go and see the miners.
So Goodwin got a buggy and started
for the mine. Going up the canyon.
Fitch asked him what that canyon was
called and the reply was;
"'The boys call it Goodwiu's canyon.
Is the mine up at the head of this
canyon asked Fitch.
"'Yes, you can see the dump from
here
How far is this place from Hamil.
ton? was the next question. And Good.
win replied:
"'Forty miles
aAnd thap Fitch said.
"What do you think of Mrs. Bowers
now?'
ut was true. 1t was Just 40 miles
from Hamilton, and it was up a canyon
and there was a little mine which made
Goodwin a few dollars. Goodwin's be-
lief always was that a good spirit for
once came to see Mrs. Bowers, and in.
spired her and that with her there were
more things in heaven and earth than
she could explain by her peep-stone.
She was a wonderful old girl"
Judge Cood,0in Meets With Accident
The Salt Lake Tribune of December
30 contains the following particulars
regarding an accident sustained by MIR.
Goodwin In Salt Lake December 10.
While attempting to cross Main street
at the corner of First South about $50
Saturday afternoon to board a Brigham
street car. Judge @. @. Goodwin, editor
of Goodwin's Weekly and chief edi.
torial writer of the Evening Telegram.
was knocked down and painfully iu-
jured.
A boy riding on his sled. which was
attached to the real of a wagon. struck
the Judge. causing him to fall and cut
his face. He was taken into a drug
store, where the flow CT blood was
stanched. and later he went to his home
on Brigham street.
While the injury is not serious. it is
painful, and the many friends of the
Judge will learn of the accident with
regret.