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September 15, 1976
...Marietta Brothers
Jay and Barbara Reich visited Silver City, Nevada on
their vacation this July. While they were there they
photographed the grave of Hosea Grosh, the Marietta
native who discovered the Comstock Lode. Because of
the important part Grosh played in Silver City’s history
the local fire department has preserved his broken
tombstone in concrete.
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at the cabin door and
offered to nurse Hosea so
that his brother Allen could:
keep working. Allen
agreed. Despite Comstock’s
nursing, Hosea Grosch died
of lockjaw.
Allen wrote to his father,
“I feel lonely and miss
Hosea— so much that at
times I am strongly tempt-
ed to abandon everything
and leave the country for-
ever, cowardly as such a
course would be. But I
shall go on. It is my duty.
And I cannot bear to give
anything up until I bring it
to its conclusion. By
Hosea’s death you fall heir
to his spare in the enter-
prise...”
Allen was completely
broke. He went into debt to
pay for a coffin and a suit
of good clothes for his
brother’s funeral. By the
time he had paid off his
debts, the weather was
getting cold. Allen and his
assistant Richard Burke
decided to cross the Sierra
Nevada to California,
where they could raise
money for a real mining
operation.
Comstock, the wild
mountain man, stayed at
the cabin to guard Allen’s
equipment. In return, Allen
gave Comstock a large and
generous claim.
In the mountains above
Lake Tahoe, a blinding
snowstorm overtook the
two travels and their don-
key. They fought their way
through mountainous drifts
until they reached Squaw
Valley. Walls of soft bil-
lowy snow hid the outgoing
pass. The men camped in
the valley until their pro-
visions ran out. The donkey
was dying of hunger.
Charles Smith, new officer
of the Marietta Post Office
Charles Smith has been
assigned Officer in Charge
of the Marietta Post Office.
Mr. Smith is a native of
Manheim. He has served
as Postmaster of Goodville,
and has been running the
Marietta P.O. since former
Postmaster Frank Seaman
went on extended sick
leave.
Mr. Smith has two
daughters. He and his
wife, Rosalia, live in
Akron.
The other members of
the Marietta Post Office
staff are: John Goodling,
Jr., and Jeffrey Shank,
clerks; Benjamin Billett,
William Fahringer, and
Benjamin Thompson, car-
riers; Albert Dettinger,
rural carrier; and Donald
Drager, assistant rural car-
rier.
Allen was attached to the
animal, but he closed his
eyes and shot her. The two
men carried her meat on
their backs, and Allen
carried his charts and
assays in his shirt.
Pulling themselves up-
ward by clutching rocks
and tree branches, Allen
and Richard struggled on-
ward. After a few days the
meat ran out. Their
matches and gunpowder
became soaked and would
not light. Once they found
some human footprints in
the snow, but their joy
disappeared when they re-
cognized their own tracks—
they had travelled in a
circle.
When a party of deer-
hunting miners finally
found the pair, they were
half-dead from hunger and
frostbite. The miners
amputated Richard Burke’s
frozen feet with a saw and
Bowie knife. Allen refused
to let the miners operate on
his own frozen legs.
Richard Burke eventually
recovered, but Allen died.
His last words were incom-
prehensible to everyone
who heard them, including
Richard Burke. ‘‘Hosea—
blue stuff— company,”
Allen muttered.
When Spring came,
Comstock, who was still
guarding the cabin, learned
that Allen was dead. He
broke into Allen’s strong-
box, searched the papers,
but failed to discover the
secret of the ‘‘blue stuff.”
Comstock filed claims for
the land the brothers had
explored, on the hunch that
they had found something
very valuable. He was
right, and the rich silver
veins became known as the
“Comstock Lode.”
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