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Show p a g e 7 "Dough" Ten minutes later the first of more than five thousand sales was made; Gridiey himself had purchased the Sanitary Sack for about two hundred dollars. He didn't know it then, but because of an election bet, an idea by a drunken cowboy and a drunken bid for a soiled and whiskey soaked sack of flour, a legend wan born and Reuel C. Gridiey had been guaranteed his niche in history. Several other people were due to be effected by this lowly bag of flour which, although it was soiled, smelled of whiskey and mold, was known now as the Sanitary Sack. Perhaps the most famous of those who first heard of the Sack was a certain Samual Clemens, more popularly known as Mark Twain, a reporter for the Virginia City newspaper, the Territorial Enterprise. Twain wired an invitation to Gridiey to bring it to Virginia City. Gridiey accepted the invitation, and Twain, always the fiery, erapassioned pleader for just and worthy causes, went all out for the Sanitary Sack. The result? In one week, Gridiey had raised $75,000.00 for the Fund and the newspapers, ever alert, had plastered the West with stories about the Sanitary Sack. Gridiey was promptly besieged by offers from every town and city in California. After laying out a route, Gridiey left |