Arizona republican., 1921-08-14

The Salt River of Arizona is nc the only stream of that name, though possibly it is the first. It may have been named the Rio Salada before either that Salt river in Tennessee up which defeated candidates were supposed to travel. Or the Salt river of Missouri was discovered, though the last named has acquired a much wider fame under another name, through "The Gilded Age" the work in which Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner collaborated. That was the river which was the object Sellers, who harassed congress for appropriations for it's improvement by a series of locks.
 Hon. James c. Goodwin of Tempe has spent nearly all his life on Salt River. He was born on the Salt river of Missouri and for nearly 40 years has resided along the Salt river of Arizona, and his children have been born on Salt river as he was. His attention to the Salt river of Missouri was recalled the other day by the following story of Salt river by Joe Burnett in the Rails County tMo.) Record:
 ''Salt river is a classic, at least so said Colonel Sellers, who clothed it in a beautiful dream. His dream was so vivid that he induced Uncle Sam to denominate it government stream, with all of the privileges thereto pertaining. He dreamed of making Florida on it's headwaters, a wonderful city, the queen of the West. Boats loaded with freight would leave F'lofida, enter the Mis- 3e,a at New Orleans, thus touching the big cities of the world. bringing trade to Main street in Florida. He so impressed this idea on the people that Florida grew to such importance that Mark Twain was born there. "Salt river runs through Rails county mainly west to east. Along it's course are bottom lands as rich as the valleys of the Nile and the Euphrates, with stretches of fine timber. High bluffs and rugged cliffs appear here and there, and it's placid waters, dancing in the sun light, flow peacefully along except when heavy rains swell it into rush. ing torrents. Many tributaries con tribute to it's volume. Long Branch. Elk Fork. Middle fork, Crooked Creek and North Fork are it's main feeders Geodin's Mill flourished on it's bank many years ago and was thriving business place. MT. Good 1 in, wife and daughter Sallie lived | there. Sallie waJ beautiful and | spirited She had many admirers. All the young men wanted to marry her. She was tall, athletic, had black hair and big. dark hazel eyes and rosy lips. Boys used to write poetry about her. For example: :. I had a piece of pie, I had big puddin' And I gave it all away
 To see Sally Goodin.' "Goodin's Mill is a memory today, and the romances growing out of it sleep benea-.- the flowers of many summers.
 Ut was during the war-the Civil War-that company of men went ] to Goodin's Mill fo.. dinner. The and said to Sally:
 1 Get dinner for 25. men at once Sally went into the house for a | minute and returned with a double 1 barrelec shotgun Leveling it al the captain she said:
 "'You and your men have my per | mission to ride away. No dinner l bell will ring for you here today.
 This gun has sixteen buckshot 1T each 'barrel.sg It may go off. Yol
 had better git
 "TLe captain looked at the gun ant
 Sally for a while, saw there wa. s danger. and at the head of his troop,
 CTS, rode away. We have heart
 that same band met Bill Anderson a si Central.a.
 Wilson's Dam, where once ther'
 was a flourishing mill, has gone t
 decay. Sometimes people. go ther
 to fish, and sit on the big logs tha
 once formed the dam. Salt Rive
 has taken great toll of life. Men
 women and children have drownet
 in it's depths. It's currents ar
 treacLerous,. and. in it's depths lurl
 bass and big catfish. Not as man.
 as there should be, for large number
 are cut off at the mouth by seines
 wire fences and nets. Some day tn