SANDERS, George W

News-Herald (Martinez AZ) Saturday, February 13, 1904, p 1 Old Timer Gone George W Sanders Bids Final Adieu to this Vale of Tears George W Sanders, well known all over Arizona, and especially well known in these parts, died at Phoenix, Saturday morning, near 1 o'clock. He had not been feeling well during the evening, but at 10 o'clock he felt much better, and he and Mrs Sanders retired. At about 2 o'clock in the morning Mrs Sanders awoke and touched him; and finding him cold and seemingly dead, she at once summoned a doctor who, on his arrival, said that Mr Sanders must have been dead at least an hour. He apparently died without a struggle. He was born at Fort Covington, New York, in 1839. He served in Company C, of the First Ohio Artillery all through the Civil War. He has long been closely connected with the Grand Army of the Republic, and last September went to San Francisco to the Grand Encampment of the organization and was selected a Department Commander. He leaves, to mourn his loss, a wife, and a son and daughter by a former marriage. And his friends and admirers are legion. He devoted most of his life of recent years to mining, and as an authority on mining matters he was considered as good as any known practical man, and was really regarded by many as better than most experts. He had charge of the famous old Vulture mine for many years, and has managed the property so as to make it pay expenses and perhaps a little more, by cyaniding the tailings of the old dumps. The only thing which stood in the way of making that proposition a paying business, was a scarcity of water, and Mr Sanders saved every bit of water from the mine, and used it to make the mine pay bills, instead of being a dead expense on its owners. This is only a sample of Mr Sanders' thorough grasp of business details about a mine. He had the same tact about whatever he undertook, and withal was so uniformly polite and accommodating, that to know him was to be his friend. Death is ever sad, but when it calls from us a model citizen, a brave soldier and a progressive business man, it is doubly sad. But the sadness is not of the kind that is mixed with pity. 'Tis a sadness that says he was so much with us we can scarce do without him. May the powerful hand of the all Wise Ruler of the Universe soften the grief of his bereaved family. [From: News-Herald CD, Arizona State Library & Archives]