All that is bolded and italicized is my emphasis for how Grimes is represented as an important person in the discovery of the basin gold. Thus, begins the myth.

A meeting will be held this evening at Boston and Cody's saloon, for the purpose of making some arrangement to raise a subscription fund for the widow of Mr. Grimes, one of the discoverers of the Boise mines, and who was killed while digging a prospect hole near the head of the creek that now bears his name. A meeting for a similar purpose will take place at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, at Placerville. Centerville and Pioneer have already moved in the matter.

Let Idaho City, the metropolis of the Territory, not be behind in this laudable movement in favor of a worthy lady, whose bereavements money can not relieve. She can be so situated however as not to be dependent on the labor of her own hands to support herself and orphan children, made such by the death of their father while engaged in "Pioneering" and opening up for the benefit of this people the richest and most extensive gold fields on the Continent.

Let no one stay away, but all come prepared to begin the work in earnest. The claim located in her name, after his death, by the former companions of her husband, was entrusted to a party to manage for her; this party sold the claim and left the country. The claim is now in the hands of innocent purchasers, and is worth $3,000. That amount the citizens of this Basin feel they owe the unfortunate lady, and they will pay it, not as a charitable donation, but as a just and equitable debt. We have not the pleasure of an acquaintance with Mrs. Grimes but she is represented to us by those who know her, as a lady of fine sensibilities, and after finding that she had made the trip all the way from Milwaukie, Oregon, only to find her claim forfeited and sold, it was with the greatest reluctance that she consented to permit those who felt an interest in her welfare as the widow of their late friend, to institute measures of her relief.