The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 7

THE EXAMINEE, SA FRANCISCO TJIUIvSDAY' MORXIXG, DECEMI5ETI isoo. 1 MBi OF MILLIONS. journey across the plains in IS-li), arriving in this State in August of the following year. His first work in the mines was at crew to 'oiling timber and brought, down a cargo of iles, which sold fullv as well as the ice would. A boating man made $4,000 in a little over a week piio'ing vessels up and down I Long liar, on reamer rivr-r, But'e for a time young i'mr woruod at river mining, but without success.

Finally bo business and set out to cast, liis lot in tiie new gold fields. Kui'iurking in a sailing vessel for the Golden West, Capo Horn, on March 1. lslii, after nearly a six months' he arr ve I in "-in Francisco, and immediately set out for th mines. Two months at. Big Bar, on the ilokeliiinne river, salistied him that he had mistaken his vocation, so he pulled up stakes and went to Stockton, whore be ag-ain returned to his old men-ban dising business and conducted a general sUiro for four years.

In 1 No 1 Colonel Ha gar wont Ut Colusa, and with J. C. Whil- Spanish families paid no attention to a racetrack, however, and used to run their Sunday horserace from the old Missiuu Church, down Sixteenth street to tho Nightingale. There was a store on Mission street, tlio northwest corner of Fifteenth, kept by a brother of General Ben Butler. The first Christmas I spent in San Francisco did not provide a very ample bill of fare.

Still there was a turkey, bought at a fabulous price, and there was not absent a pudding. But the Christmas tree of an older civilization was missing, and realities of a new, stern existence confronted the child and the man, and taught him that life must be earnest ers at tho head, inside, it would set off the whole. They then drew lots to see who should go into the hogshead and touch off that cracker. George McDougali, a most, inveterate practical joker, fixed it so that E. P.

Jones drew tho long straw. Jones crawled into the hogshead, aud Imd no sooner touched off that cracker than George gave the hogshead a kick and down the hill it went with Jones inside. Jones' yel)3, mingled with the bursting of the crackers, rendered the scene extromoly ludicrous. The hogshead brought up against the aforesaid building, Jones moaning and groaning when we pulled him out, but further than singed hair and hiskers and the slight pricking of the nnils, he was unhurt. The Richest Citizens of California and How They Acquired Their Mill.

me fiucrainenro. tt was more money than he had ever seen Ik-fore. He put this, with all he could rake and scrape, into a vessel and cargo of for a new mining strike in the north. The vessel struck on a reef on the practically unknown northern coast and the fortune sank into the depths of the sea. A speculator who noticed the absence of small coins and the inconvenience in making change thoutht he saw an opening.

He invested $7, Mill in dimes at the East and had them shipped to San Francisco in kegs. AVhen they arrived hero thev were not worth as much as so many beans. He lost them all at a game of poker, and the win FORTUNES IN REAL ESTATE. dropped gravel mining and engaged iu quartz mining at Angels, in Calaveras county, and at various other parts of tho State. In this branch of gold seeking Fair was successful and soon acquired quite a "stake." In lhtlOhe went to Virginia City, and out of the great Comstock iodo he amassed the greater portion of his present colossal fortune.

Five years alter his advent on the Comstock lie becamo superintendent of tho Ophir mine, and two years later assumed direction of the Hale Nor-cross and had formed a business connection with John W. Mackay. It was while Mr. fair was superintendent, of tho Hale A Norcross that ho first formed business relations with Flood and O' lirien, aud those gentlemen, withFuirand Maekay, became partners in what was afterward known as the Bonnna firm, a quartet of millionaires that was dissolved by the death of O'Brien. It was in the Hale Norcross mine that the Href, half million of the enormous fort uuo of this famous firm was made, and with this money to operate with tho mining claims then known as tho California and side mines, the White and Murphy, the Central (Nos.

1 anil 2) and tho claim railed tho Kinney, wero secured. All of these mines were afterward consolidated and in yy in the Mines, Capital in Cattle and Money in 31. It will thus be seen that some of the jokes were slightly rough, but everybody took them in good part. At night their inclinations naturally turned to cards as tho readiest means of dispelling ennui. In this respect they were not different from people all over tho civil world in the present day who are similarly situated.

But the writer here assorts most emphatically that there was not a soli was been in Addison county, Vermont, about live years Hgo, and ieft there for the far west in IMoii. Ho crossed tne. plains by the Pike's 1'o-ikor Denver route, tim the mountains then unborn, n-nd, after much journe ing and exploration, reached California in 1S.V.!. lie remained a year in Kl Dorado county, occupying himself with mining, being on the lookout in the mean time for opportunity to gage iu some more congenial pursuit. Learning that here was an extensive and unoccupied district at the fiend of the Sail Joaquin valley well adapted for grazing and agricultural pursuits generally and for all tiie purposes of settlement, ho moved to it and decided to remain in what is now Kern county.

He located in the foothills near tho mouth of tho canyon of Kern river and engaged in tho sheep business, buying 2.000 and taking ou shares. The two following years the increase of his sheep and his wool hut, littlo more than paid expenses. The nearest point at which tele water could bo reached was at Wilmington, in Los Angeles county, distant about 1 70 miles by a very bad road. Bail-r-wls had then' been' hardly thought of. Tin! next season, ustili and 104, was a very dry one.

His hock-i decreased and the price of depreciated In 1 per head." At 0.3 end oi it he found himself deeply in debt. The next, senson. however, ami from that time onward, his Docks never failed to pay handsomely on the average anil he gret-r rapidly inlo In 'H5 and 'tiri. with un associate, be commenced cotfon growing within the limitsof what Is now the town of Hakerslieli). The preliminary outlay-preparing tho land and constructing for it an irrigating system -was large, but they expected to make of it a permanent biisi" ness.

At, the same time they erected tha first building in Bakorstield that had any claim to permanency. It, was used for a store to supply their employees with noeev saries. Its sito was where the Southern Hotel now stands. They raised a lino crop of excellent" cotton, which brought, a good price. Rut tiia prospect of a large production in the Southern Stat es discouraged them from growing another crop.

Subsequently, for several years, his sheep business mainly absorbed his attention. In the mean time, he invested his accumulations mainly in nsricultural lands in the valley, and having hoard much MANY COUNTIES REPRESENTED. ner, a schooner c.iptuin, threw most of them overboard. So even when the money was easily mado it was very hard to keep, and the mini who didn't meet a reverse fur every advance was long headed and far-seeing. Such are the men ho represent tho great fortunes of the State to dav.

Munv fell bv the wayside in the race lor gain. "Those "who are worlhy of honor. JSot for hat they have kept to themselves, but for what they have incidentally dono for others and for the pluck which they have shown in winning their way. Their "downs'' are more interesting than their nps." Still, it lias been said that no man and no nation was ever givt bormiso of the monev which he or it saved. It is the spending of money which gives distinction.

The rich men of California are held in esteem ac Hi corporated as the Consolidated Virginia Company, and soon the bonanza kings bad a bank account of $1011,000,000 to their Pioneer Who Risked Everything and Reached the ioal or Fortune at Last -Types of the Nturdy Men Who Have Made California What It Is-A Woman the lftilicst fto.ldeiit of Santu iara County and a Clergyman the Nabob of Pan Iiego-Some Hound Advice to VounK Men: Be Hold, Be Hold, Be Bold, hnt Not Too Hold." credit. In I SH8 and 1 Kiifl Mr. Fair commenced tary individual among tho Anglo American settlers of those times upon whom tho terra gambler, in its professional nnd offensive sense, can be truthfully applied; and the terms "gambler" and "drunkard," so pro-lifiVally used nod recklessly applied to those early pioneers in so called histories, the writer unhesitatingly pronounces foul, mendacious nnd malicious slanders. What right had nny author to assail the reputations of these dead and living men and fix a stigma to their names! Surely self-assumed authorship bestows no such licentious license. We found the naiives of the country living in almost Arcadian simplicity, with tastes to invest, in real estate in this rity, and since that time has been steadily adding to tho millions he made in his various mining ventures.

At the present, time he is said fo be the owner of over eighty acres of real estate in the business portion of the rity. OUR OLDEST RESIDENT. Extract From Captain William r. SwBBcr'd Forthcoming Hook. Captain William F.

Swasey is tho youngest looking and best preserved of the old Pioneers. He is at the present moment engaged in reading the final proof-slucls of bis "History and Biographies of the Karly It will appear in January next, and contains additions to the historical works on California that will nstonish the inhabitants. In ft are related the story of the occupation of Monterey by Commodore Sloat, in which Captain Swasey took part, also tho true story of Fremont's campaign and the raising of the Bear Flag in Sonoma. The Captain arrived at Sutter's Fort in IMS, September the Slid, and was for a short time Sutter's clerk, in company Willi John F. Bid well, who was Sutter's bookkeeper.

Suttor's Fort was then a place of refuge for the immigrants from the East, who had ventured across the plains. There were a few -workmen about the place and always two or three visitors. In December Swasey, in company with Captain Leidosdorff, then United States Vim-Consul, departed for Yerba Buena in a whaloboat. Stopping for a time in that village, be for Monterey after a time. OFOKfiE HKOAH.

cording to their beneficences. Michael Reese would have been forgotten long ago wero it not, for the fact that after his death it was found that bo had remembered his fellows. Lick will be kindly spoken of by generations vet unborn. Lcland Stanford's fortune, in" it self has not given him half tho fame which bis donation of a portion of it to found a great educational institution has. Already hundreds of rich men who were somebodies in their day have died and been forgotten because accumulation was their only and during tho past eighteen months ho has comb purchased nine of tho eleven leagues This is the season of bounty in a year.

Prosperity has attended upon the invested all of in real estate. of tho Jimeno grant, extending from Colusa to Grand island. Ho did not permanently About eleven years ago Mr, Fair built, what is known as the South Pacific Const footsteps of trade and fortune has favored hail road, running from Oakland mole to locate mere. However, until fstui. Colonel llagar is tho largest resident indi vidua.1 land owner in C'ohisa county, possess Santa Cruz.

For six years he operated this cniiracierisuo. lug f.i.Ldif acres nt laud, besides cirrving line, and iu ISSti sold it to tho Southern Pacific Company, ho price puid be mortgages of many thousands of dollars. The taxes puid thia year bv Colonel Hugar So at. this (. hristmns timo it, might be well for California's richest men to think what presents they will make the State so ing At that time Mr.

Fair was estimated to be worth $15. on his own property were tl.WlMi iiO. Ho and desires in keeping with their humble and uneventful lives: they were iirnornnt and utterly froo from the ambitions of the populous world; the ft and other crimes were very, very rare. The duties of the civil officers were almost wholly confined to the legalizing of transactions in property. Luxuries wore almost unknown.

Their food was of the simplest, consisting principally of frljnlm, tortilla, beef and chickens, gar- that their fellows may hold their memories 000,000. Add to this the 7, (100,000 in some esteem, and that thev inav hold a place in tho constantly growing pages of Is largely interested in property in the town of Colusa, and owns fine residence in tho suburbs of tho city. Ho has amassed a fortune of over ono million dollars, including lands, houses nnd a large interest in tho uie riiaie nisiorv. SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY. Colusa County Bank.

the professions. Agriculture, the mainstay of the well-being of a commonwealth, has strode forward with seven league boots. The people of tho less favored States have stood open-mouthed at the prodigality with which the Golden West has poured out the fruits of the earth." The soil has answered the prayer of the husbandman. Flocks and herds increase and multiply. The mines have yielded their stored treasures to th magian pick of the miner.

It is a time of plenty. So in thft year of accumulations and the days of largess it is appropriate to review the lives of some of tho most successful accumulators and those most endowed with tho good things which are given away at Senator I eland Stanford. THE NABOB OF PINOLE. Leland Stanford, a Senator of the United States from California and one of the Bernardo Fernandez, the ltichest Man or wealthiest men in the State, was born in the village of Watervliet, Albany county, New York, on March I), 182-1. His ancestors had settled in the valley of the Mohawk about the year 1720.

Stanford received an academical education, and when about twenty years of ago commenced tho study A I1 it v(? )) AvT Contra Costa County. The richest man in Contra Costa county is Bernardo Fernandez of Pmolo. It is a hard task to get at anything like a fair valuation of his wealth, but it is safe to put it down at not less than one million. His fortune was acquired at his present home nt Pinole. He first ran a schooner as 'aptain for Henry Cruz in the Fifties, doing freight iug on the bay aud landing at Pinole and Cruz Landing on the Sun Pablo ranch.

Cruz afterwards failed and Fernaudez hud saved "Cij i fc if' V- V-. V-hH I nristmas tnto. The lives of theso men enough to continue tho business and located at Pinole, whero he built warehouses and a 1 yo "all remind us" of the good fortunes which are ready to the hand of energy and endeavor. Laid', Uio, is a story in itself. In rjost instances they are records of dangers oravely met and obstacles overcome by persistent pluck.

In them the reader finds much of the history of a great State. The rich men of tho Golden Coast are nearly all from among tho ranks of those who came here in tho parly days. They were not carpet knights in the jousting for fame and fortune. They did not dream of wharf. As ho accumulated money it was invested in land, loaned to tho farmers at good rates of interest, and he dealt largoly In grain aud hay.

For the past twelve or fifteen years he has invested largely in of law in the office of Whoalnu, Doolittlo fc Jladioy at, Albany. Three years later ho was admitted to practice in the Supremo Court of the State of New York. During the same year that ho was admitted to practice Stanford caught the Western fever and removed to Port Washington, in the northern part of tho State of Wisconsin, where ho opened an office aud commenced the practice of his profession. Hero he remained for about four years, until one day in the spring of 1 a tire destroyed his library and about all tho other property ho possessed. Stanford then came to "California anil engaged in niiningat Michigan Bluff, Placer county.

Subsequently lie becamo associated in business with three of his brothers, who had preceded him to the Pacific Coast. In the year 1S5d Stanford removed to Sacramento, where ho engaged in mercantile pursuits on a large scale, nnd whero he laid tho foundation of his vast, fortune, that FAIR. fit JEWfiTT. securities, insurance and bank slocks. Be is and has been since its organization a Director of tho Bank of Martinez.

Ho was born in Portugal and is about (50 years old. of the value of alfalfa for hav and gr.i.:in ho received from the sale of his railroad mado his fortune in Since that time his many real estate and being carried to the skies of success "on flowery beds of ease," but were ready and eager to "toil to win the other speculations and the increase in tho 'LAND POOR FOR YEARS. purposes ho sowi-d some experimentally, with such favorablo results that ho coi'n-meuced to dovote his agricultural land largely to it. mid with such success that ho sold his foothill property and changed his I -dx 'P -z h-A value of his property have mcreasod his wealth by several millions, and it. is safe to prize." They found a broad, uncouth, un How Wllllum Helm ol 1 iiono Crew ltlch kempt land, where the tumbling surf roared hy His Faith In the Country.

Who is the richest man in Fresno coun say that tho hoy who crossed tho ocean from Ireland in 1811 to seek his fortune in America is now the possessor of nearly 000,000. against near a thousand miles of scar, and crag and cliff, but where on sunlit bays the ty was the question addressed to dozens tides ebbed and (lowed as gently as the rook Mr. Fair's only appearance in public life of people in Fresno. 'William Helm," was the answer, with nig oi tne cradle or a babe. There was great promise in the land for those who had was in 1KS0, when ho was chosen by the Legislature of Nevada to represent that State in tho Senate of the United States.

'AT NIGHT THEIR INCLINATIONS NATURALLY TLRNF.D TO CARDS." out a single exception. the purpose to exact its fulfillment; great Mr. Helm acquired his wealth mainly whore be becamo Secretary to United nas recently estimated at more than $50,000,0110. in Krtt) Mr. Stanford made his first entrance into public life as a delegate to the.

Chicago convention tiiat nominated Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency. Mr. Stanford in IKril associated himself with C. P. Huntington, Charles Crocker anil Mark Hopkins in the organization of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, of which Stanford was chosen I'rosiuent, a'position he occupied until recently.

The same year that WON IN A LOTTERY. through lands, of which he has been a largo holder for years and which enhanced large- possibilities for those who had the quick ness to appreciate them. resilience to the vicinity of Bakers-field. After his discovery" of the of alfalfa ho branched out into cattiei and improved his (locks, tho prod's of which, largely increased. His breed of sheep has acquired wide reputation and at different times ho has so'd largely to breeders in Texas.

New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Montana and elseu'hot'e, besides in his own State. In 1X71 he was mainly Instrumental in organiing the Kern Valley Bank, which has ever since been very profitable to the stockholders. He now proposes, as soon as he run bring it about, to engage largely in fruit and vino growing ami will commence this year by planting on a section of laud in this vicinity eighty acres in peaches and twenty in oilier trees ami vines. The year following ho expects to plant tha entire tract. Most of those whose lives are sketched How Frederick Pelger, Alameda's Rich est Man, f.ot His Start.

here were men who had faith In tho new land. They looked into the future and saw Frederick Delger, tho richest resident of nislied and seasonec liberally with Wide rofo-rniffi. Their amusements and recreations wero horse-racing, picnics, fandangoos, chicken fighting, monte and bull and-bear baiting. The bull was always at hand, but to procure the bear two or three vaqueros would go out into the low hills almost anywhere and get one in a few hours. They would lasso the bear, then wind him all around like a ball with riatas, roll him onto a dry hide, hitch their riatas to the hide ne ttecaine President of the Central Pacific States Consul Thomas C).

Larkin. Captain Swasey has permitted us to quote from his book the following description of lift in San Francisco as it was in its embryo state in 1K15-8, which gives tho reader some idea of the graphic descriptions that render the volume a brilliant addition to historical literature: "These pioneers were in the full vigor of early manhood, with robust, health and Company he was chosen Governor of the the expansion which would follow Jintelli-gently directed effort. In their hope- Alameda county, was a German cobbler, who came to Oakland way back in the early inspired vision grain sprouted iu green fiftios. He set up his littlo shop on Broadway, and for several years he mended shoes. But this was not tho way in which Freder- great buoyancy of spirits, a large majority loK uolger made tns money, for while prices were good and trade was brisk, there was of them unmarried aud without family.

BY REAL ESTATE AND LOANS. How Henry C. Hoggs or Lake County Made a Fortune. and drag him to the village, sometimes from ten to twenty miles. There was but very littlo money in the -1 i-r leagues from the footsteps of steer and bronco.

Oranges and lemons shot golden gleams across the wind-whirled sands. Orchards nestled in the valleys and vines twined their tendrils about the hills. White sails glinted along the bays and followed tne sinuous rivers. Great Htouiuers came and went, the shuttles in tho loom of trade. Pulling engines pierced the ribs of the mountains and snorted down tho slopes.

1 JM They were not lured hither by the glitter of country; business was almost wholly conducted on the principle of barter and trade, hides and tallow being about the only circu "the black cavalry of commerce shrieking in the face of the dawn not enough money in the shoe business to make nearly a million of dollars. Fach mouth of the year Mr. Delger invested a certain amount of tho profits of the little shoe shop in lottery tickets, and one day he won Sln.OOO in tho Louisiana State Lottery. That, was his start, Tho money was carefully invested in real estate, always on Broadway, and as tho town grew the real estate became more valuable. The $10,000 purchased two blocks of laud that could not now be purchased 'for half a million, and as the property yielded rents these were in-vested in more land, but always iu Oakland, and to day Mr.

Delger is'the largest property-holder in Alameda count v. Air. Delger has lived for years on the property that comprises nearly nil the block bounded by Telegraph and San Pablo avenues, Frederick and Williams streets. Tho house is largo and is surrounded by gardens, kept in the most perfect condition and tilled with tho choicest, dowers, but these are rarely seen from the street, for the whole is surrounded by a high fence Henry C. Hoggs, Lakecounty's wealthiest! resident, was born in Jackson county, Juno 1, 1S20, and was the second son of ex -Governor Hoggs of that State.

He came to California and settled about six miles northwest, of Napa in DO He moved to Luke county in iiil and purchased land in Big valley, and from that timo until Irii) he divided Ins attention between the two counties, us he had interests in both. In tho spring of 1K70 ho located permanently in Lake county at Lakeport, and has since resided at. that place. In 1 7H ho was elected a delegate to the) Constitutional Convention. He was one of tho principal movers in the organisation of the Farmers' Savings Hank Lakeport and is now one of the heaviest stockholders and President of that institution.

Ho has accumulated his vvea.tii by investing in real estate and loaning, money. Instead of the vanishing tents of the gulches, villages, towns and cities sent a smudge of smoke across tho then unclouded skies. The pulpit took the place of the gaming tnblo, the sehoolhouse elbowed aside the hurdy-gurdy, the pruning knire ro-piaced the pistol and tho bowie-knife became the editorial shears. Brighter ami better than the wild, fierce glamour of the crime haunted camps shono the quiet peace of homo. In this spirit of faith they toiled on, slowly working out, tho destiny of a great commonwealth.

On that destiny depended their own future. They put their ad upon the touch, played for heavy slakes, d. Q't lating medium. A dry hide passed everywhere for I 50 and an omii i (twenty-five pounds) of tallow for fH. When a ranchero would want any supplies from town he would hitch two or three or more, dry hides to his riata, get On his horso and drag them to the village, go to the store, obtain what sugar and coffee, he required and receive the balance in silver to play monte with, and, for the time being, be tho hap piest, best-natured man on earth.

A large proportion of the male population lived outdoors and on horseback. When traveling about tho country and bocoming hungry they were at lilxrrty to kill a young beef any whero, tho owner never objecting if they wutild but hanx the hide en a tree out of the reach of the coyotes. Their harmless pride and vanity was dis played in their costumes and in the trappings of their horses: their silver mounted saddles, silver bridles and spurs, silver aud gold buttons on their jackets anil cnhimnm I trousers (, their broad-brimmed mil i re mil wii.i.iA.vt SENATOR I.Kl.AM) STANFORD. ly in value by rapid settling up of tiie county. "This source of bis wealth." said an gold it was a spirit of adventure, pure and simple, thai brought them here.

It was a desii'3 to eo where youth and health, unaided by wealth, could cope with life and fortune untmnme'ed by tho slow plodding of the older settled aud over populated communities. Of society, so far as ladies are a constituent or a necessary element, there was comparatively none; to be sure, there were a few very few American ladies in Verba Buena. but they could be almost enumer-acd npon the fingers of one hand. This dearth of society compelled them to seek other sources of diversion and recreation for their leisure hours, and as an outlet for their exuberant spirits they would improvise all sorts of amusement, some of them unique and ridiculous, and bet on any thing. For instance, they would blindfold a man aud turn him around three times, and then bet an ounce that he could not find a certain post that stood in center of the plaza (that was used for posting notices on) iu fifteen minutes.

Behind an aduno building on the northeost corner of Clay and Kearny streets there was a slimy pool of water, full of all kinds of nastiness, created by making adobe for building. One day they blindfolded Sam Brannau; after turning him around three times Sam hesitated a moment or two and struck a bee-line for that pool, and in less than a quarter of a minute lie was in it up to his nee it. On another occasion it was a holiday State of California, aud served in that office from 0ecem her. JKiif, till December. lSttil.

officer of ono of the local banks, "once made HE NAMED LASSEN COUNTY. Mr. Helm ono of the poorest, men iu the and won. In nearly every instance their accumulations came slowly'from very small beginnings. It lias been long pun and a strong pull, and in some instances several As President of the Central Pacific road he superintended its construction over the Sierra Nevada mountains, building county.

Ho was land poorl'oryears." Air. miles in days. On May IK, lSiifl, Gov Mi'liu whs iiuni in Canada, in lMli.X. In IHTiS he came ft) California aud en of them have had to pull all together. I hey were optimists.

Tho pessimists ernor Stantoru drove the last spike that marked the completion of the road and its gaged in raising sheep for the San Francisco took the fortunate earnings of a season. linn-net, in i Mi.i tie located in Fresno quit with the first turn of hard ltnik, and I. Hyers. the Wealthiest CitUea And I'loneer of l.asseu County. James D.

Byers, the first Sheriff of Lassen county, was boru near Mcadville, February ti, 1 S2o. Fivo years later his father died. At the age of thirteen he ho-gan to bustle for a iving in a store at Harts-town, Pa. hi 1 srni he started lor Cadfor- county, having been one of the pioneer sheep the country. Ho came her went to the homes whence they ennui to settle down to hack country uobodvliood.

practically without- means and gave his per sonal care In his little flock, which grew as These are the men who staved. Reverses did not discourage them, no' wero they unduly elated by a smuil suc gradually, but as and steadily, as his landed possessions. ll was one of the cess. 1 hey set a higlf mark with gold and silver bands and their geld embroidered Ijntnn (loggings), all rendered their appearance unique and picturesque in the highest degree. Tho games principally engaged in by the ind struggled on and on to 7 ---V.

-x V. i -i attain it. A few cents was tho rapital on ft -WT- I which several of them started to build their millions. Money could bo madif easily in the old days; but it could be lost lust us junction wi'h ti.e Union Pacific, at Promontory point. Utah.

Ho also became inter ested in other roads throughout the State and was the first President of the Southern Pacillc Company, a position ho held until April last, when he was succeeded by C. P. Huntington. Senator Stanford is also deeply interested in the development of the agriculture and manufactures of California. His Palo Alto stock farm is known throughout tho world, and a visit to tho Pacific Coast is now considered incomplete if a visit of inspection to this home of tho most celebrated of es is not made.

In 1 she, while in Kuropo with his wife aud only child. Leland Stanford the latter was taken ill and died. In memory of his son Air. Stun ford has given the Stale of California property valued at, 2O.ooo.0o0 for the. founding a.

Palo Alto of the Leland Stanford Jr. University. The' corner stone of the university building was laid on May 14, 1S7, and work on the building has heed in progress ever since. In January, IH.sn, he was elected to the United S'ates Senate His term of service Americans were tne old-fashioned poker and seven-pp. At private houses the gamo of twenty -one was mostly in vogue.

Lvery one bet. but on tho last named game the betting was generally limited to about t'J. The advent of faro did not tnko place till IS IS). The writer can recall but half a dozen names in Yerba Buena in those early dayswhodid not indulge in cards or betting, but that did not constitute them gamblers first settlers tlio county to experiment i.i wheat raising on laud that was then consul ered worthless for anything but grazing pin -poses mid not of much value for that. Hi aiiing curly the marvelous possibilities of tho soil of Fresno county, he acquired vast tracti of the most Valuable lands in the county, which he held through years of misfortune urn! udversily.

He aiso acquired cily projx-rt in Fresno, which has increased so rapidly In value ihat the appreciation on this aione is a fort, mo larger than the raw Canadian youth of thirty years ago ever dreamed of possessing. Change in financial ability has wromrht no change in he character or habits of Mr. Helm. When tint writer sought him the otner day ho found him standing on a two horse farm wagon load -il wilii cement, which he was hauling to oiieoi his buildings iu Fresno, the street in front of which he -v It 1 i eV 1 1 'j easily. In the new land everything was experiment.

While a right line of action might mean an Increased bank account, a mistake might sweep away everything and force another biiinning on different lines. There were "moving accidents by Hood and field." The rising wniers swept way the all of many into ihe turgid facraiin nto. The great, fires in San Francisco rendered well-to-do men paupers. The man who turned his attention to stock raising was apt to awaken aud find his herds gone driven off before the tireless ponies of the marauders. A drouth might parch! the unirrlgiited fl'dds anil blight the year's expectations.

knew little 'aoout iu an offensive sense any more than one could be constituted a dry goods merchant by buying few yards of calico. rHr.PEUIl PKI.OF.It. and hedge. Air. is a m.m who at ivill expire on March Hd next.

The fortune possessed by Senator ford has been estimated al'all the way from 10,000.000 to Sio.Oiiii.oiiu, but' those best informed on the subject, men who have Ct a tends most strictly business, and for any was piivin. lie is the p-aiu old sheep, herded stiii. and the same far see, ng, ievel I Ueti'l'sl, business mini, was wormiig the ores of the gravel doosjts. So money was wasted in sinking useless shaft a thing else lie has the tittnosi, con'einpi. vx), and runnine wrongly directed rivitts.

The -1. I attend Pi my business and -uov want i tim. outh in the future id count i bit male him severnl lines a in. liono re. It is his fai1 in the idea ihat laud is now br.iigin:ra mere of its value, in the main, thai onuses him i hold on to realty with so tit'iu a gr.p.

He is stil! ono of the largest latni owners in ttie couutv. He utilizes his possessions ii every possible way ami his divoi-silied interests have helped to make tiie richest man in Fresno county. ft- .1. BVMS to uo too suul Ifeiger. "I want untiling to do with politics, or any thing oi -e." And Air.

Delger has always lived up to this principle. COLUSA'S MILLIONAIRE. How Colonel lieorge llugr Worked HI Way to Wealth, Colonel George Hagar, the wealthiest resilient of Colusa county, was born in Lincoln, January 17. Js After receiving a common school education he be. came erk in a store at.

Keone, and paid sii'-h strict Bli-ntion to hii-oncs that was remote aim transpoitai ion slow. This made merchandising a lottery. A giut or a scarcity in the market meant ruin or fortune, with the chances about even. A an instance of how hard it was to struggle against the unknown conditions of the new country, the story is fold of amtin who put his all into a vessel ncd senth-r to I'uiret sound to loud ice for the San Francisco market. He knew hat ice formed in merchantable quantities in ifho latitude of Sau Francisco on the Atlantic seaboard, so he argued that sureiy there would he plenty of on the i Pacillc sido of the continent as far north as Pug-et sound.

He waited impatiently for mouths for the return of his vessel. At last she sailed into the ha' bor. As he boarded her the first words of his Captain were; "fee dees not form ut igel Fortunately the CaptHin a nardhetoied fellow, who. when he found "here was no ice, set his I Known nun ever since he first cure to the State and who are Pest qualified to form a i correct estimate, place on fortune at 000,000. I Kv-rn itoi- Juiuri i.

Fair. I James G. Fair, ex-United States I from the St to of Nevada, and now one of i the wealthiest men on the Pacific Coust. is i a native of Ireland, having boon born in Clogher. Tyrone county, in December, Whet, a boy of feu years he iniiui-grated to tiiis country, making his home with friends of his family iu Geneva.

III. attend! the public schools for a short time. From Geneva young Fair went, to Chicago, where he ma le his own way the world i.s best he could. Hi? was about si-teen years of age when the discovery of gold was made i CnhforniB, and with thousands of others erosr.l the poiins to land of Mi Fair started on Vle nir with li's eldei' brother, re.e-hing in He opened a store and 1 lea.iy, count In tr.r sprit ef Ihol re commence 1 n. tiling en in' WEALTH IN WOOL.

Christina Iay on Thursday 1 frn.it in nti EhiilUI, llnnk nf If Christmas day on Thursday be, A windv winter we shall se; Winiy wpnther iu earn Wert? And hard tempests, strong and thick. Tne good and dry and beasts shall multiply. That year is fr to till: Kind's and rrinces shall di; by skill. If a cbild boru that shall be It shall happen right we'l fur he: Of i-eIs he shall bo good and stuliie. Wise of fqn-edi ami reasonable.

Wboso d'iy thb'ving Hot-bull he without doubt; And If that betlrte ft shull iicifiy from feet gliito, I How a orl tine Sheep Hrougtit to Sc.l- "HOW TIIK HII.L IT WFXT." 1 otnno J-wett The richest resident Jewctt. ll is of Kerti. of Kern county is the president and 1 he had l-eacher, the ago of twenty. creek. PiLieiiis county, arid after one of seventy of ti aching ton qittir '-Ijimon hilt.

In ISol ho opened the tir-o iy 1 a i he was e.ec'---l i'ii ttie ttcltet to t.j of of V. mm wun'r. is'i-i was re I on t-o t.c'-iet. In the ti.tr-' 1 they procured a large crockery hogshead, took it up the hill to the corner of Clay and Dnpcut streets, drove it full of nails, nvl then tied firecrackers to ail tho tmils, fixing them so that by start inir xme of the crack he ha-l thro own estiiplishe i a the nnnouno business of his ttieit principal stockholder of the Ihe owu-'i- of tmiiiv va'n Kern Valley o.iie tracts of When had II of Mr. iTi-ll in igar cached of his illsi-.

irrigated Uofc-iged ,1 iiiif raising sheep tie-l tj ear IVoiV He ft'tll 1 in.