The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-10-09
WHEN SAM NEWHOUSE HAD
ONLY GALL AS AN ASSET

(win Irwin in Saturday Evening Post.
As California gulch in 1850 saw th'
beginning of III. A. w. Tabor career
and knew not it's prophet, so Leadvill'
in 1880 saw the beginning of another
great career and noticed it only to
smile. The Denver & Rio Grahde rail
road had fought its way up the Royal
gorge and entered Leadville. A hand
some, black-eyed little man named
Sam Newhouse appeared at the station
to solicit freight hauling for his team.
His mules were so thin that whenever
Sam left them standing the gamesome
bows used to brace two-by-four tim
bers against them for support. Per-
haps because this team looked made
quate to its job, few patronized him.
SO it came that he got SIX weeks be-
hind in his bill to Mrs. Stingley, with
whom he boarded. Now, Mrs. Stingley
had a daughter named Ida, just back
from the seminary in Denver. Shr
was as pretty as she was accomplished,
and was as accomplished as she was
good. When she packed away her di-
ploma and graduation gown and went
to shooting biscuits for her mother,
the attendance at the Stingley board
ing house increased to standing room
The solemn day of board-reckoning
arrived. Mrs. Stingley called Sam
Newhouse in and talked to him Sc
verely.
"Wm you call it square if ] marry
your daughter, Idaf'' asked Sam New
house. When Mrs. Stingley recovered
from her shock over the pure gall of
proposition, she summoned Ida.
Stingley was gentle, but firm. If
Sam Newhouse went away she would
60, too. And they were married.
A few weeks later the night clerk in
the Clarendon said to Sam Newhouse:
''You are doing nothing for yourself in
camp. Now, I've a proposition.
starting a new hotel at Ouray.
You can be clerk and Mrs. Newhouse
housekeeper if you only say the word"
And there the Good Fairy inscribed
his name upon their hotel register.
The Good Fairy was disguised as a
rich Englishman looking for mining
further, he was shivering
with a heavy chill. 1t was a case of
double pneumonia. Physicians they
had in Ouray, but no trained nurses;
and in pneumonia nursing is all 10
Mrs. Newhouse put the Eng
Iishman to bed and gave up every
thing else to pull him through. When
he was able to travel ne said:
"There is no use offering you money,
Mr.. Newhouse, for what you and your
wife have done. l only make you this
offer in good faith: If you ever find
a good mining venture, something that
really promises returns, come to Lon
don with it and l will see that it is
Sam Newhouse remembered this
when, two years later, he found in
Idaho Springs the property which is
now the Newhouse tunnel. 1t was a
location promising great things. He
vent to London, found the Good Fairy,
returned with the backing. But the
tunnel needed more development than
Sam Newhouse thought. At the end of
Is months he was still sinking and
drifting. The money was nearly gone,
the mine was not yet paying dividends,
and the English stockholders were
writing severe letters. lust at this point
in his fortunes he met Tom Weir,
whom he had met in his Leadville
days as manager of the A. Y. and Min
ME mine. Weir had a bonanza at Bing-
ham, Utah-the Highland Boy. That,
too, needed capital for development.
looked it over; it promised
even better than the tunnel. He sent
for experts, got their sworn estimates,
and packed off for London again. His
power of persuasion coaxed $4,000 900
more out of the Good Fairy and his as
sociates. The Highland Boy and the
tunnel became two of the
greatest Western mines.
"And now,'' say the side sages
of Leadville, "the Newhouses are liv-
ing in London and dancing in the
kings set!'