Bisbee daily review., 1914-12-27
DAYS
 IF VIRGINIA
 CITY CITED
C. C. Goodwin, Editor of Goodwin's Weekly, Writes Of Interesting Days in Fam ous Nevada Mining Camp.
INTERNATIONAL HOTEL BURNING THE OCCASION
Tells of Celebrated Hotel In
 Which Many of World's s Famous Mining Deals Were Consumated to a Conclusion.

By c. c. Goodwin, Editor of Good wins Weekly.
 A week ago a dispatch from Virginia City. New, said: "The International Hotel was burned today. Not much in that is thrilling. but To, those seven words make "all the burial places of a miners memory give up their dead It is just about ffty-hve years ago today that the foundations of thB first International Hotel were laid. In that first winter when the first rush was being made to the Comstock. That was some winter.
 The word came, late in the autumn, that a mountain had been found in the lesert and a specimen taken at ran dom for a pocket piece when assayed went $1,227 in gold and, wonder Of wonders, $1,5l9 in silver.
 The placers in California were be- ginning to fail: the ragged and hungry and dead broke. were returning from Fraser River, from tdown through Ore gon. on foot, down in the steerage Of coast steamers, and many just on the open decks.
 Oregon had grown tired of feeding them an done genius who is still alive, walked the whole length of Oregon and northern Californi aon the small est capital every heard Of He ob- tained somehow a bit of slate and a pencil and whote on the slate, CT am deaf and dumb and hungry He fared sumptuously every day, but to re. Heve his mind, when he found a place in the deep woods beyond the hear. ing of men he would shout until every cougar in the forest fled.
 The question was O nthousands Of lips. Where neXt?" Then the astound ing news of tn ediscpvery floated over the sierras from the desert beyond.
 It was received as an answer tc prayer.
 No wonder there was a rush. In night as it were. men ceased repining a toutrageous fortune; ceased indeed dreaming of fortunes in thousands nothing less than a million would dc f ormany who had gone supperless t' bed and did not know where an! breakfast was coming from, But thel wer ecomforted, believing tha tthii time they would strike 1t sure"
 Ther ewere no roads, but that di' not matterthey had climbe amount aims before So from Siskiyou to Sal Diego the exouds began. It was th most tragic comedy ever seen. AS resenting the intrusion the great $ erras called up all their storms-col and snow and gale sthat would blo' the buttons from ones coat, and whe they were finally crossed, there wa stil another height to climb on tn crest of which was the great lode.
 That was all there was there, n houses mo food not one comfort
 J. Ross Browne wrote a book pu porting to be his experience, and frustrated it. Tn ebook and the flu trations were caricatures and whe Browne. put it in the publisher hands, he took ship for Europ eand n mained away until people forgot abol his book
 The best and worst men ICalilo mia joined that exodus. In very Ca ifornia town there had been one toug who was chief They met in Virgin City and to decide who was to ! chief in the new camp caused many diversion and many funerals m q following three years.
 Contests over claims soon bega and that drew an array of yawye there who would have been pote tial force at any bar in America. is a pleasure to recall the names some of them. Judge Baldwin, Thom Williams. William M. Stewart Mos Kirlpatrick, Judge Rising. Judge hc H Taylor. Judge William Campbell K DeLong. Pat Hundley James H' dv Judge R. S. Messick, c. II Hilly' Judge Sandy Baldwin, Judge Cy w lace. Henry Meredithand many mol The doctors were just as eminen John Mackay lived in a cabin that
 had built or bought and when