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Show MACKAY'S WEALTH. DM Not Know Within Tvvtnty Millions Mil-lions What Ho Was Wotth. San Pranclsco. Jul :i, Rlchnrd Dey, a rloso personal friend and former confidential con-fidential secictnry of tho late John W. Mnckay, sas In nn Interview t I do lint suppose Mr Mackay himself knew vvllhln M0x(Ki of what ho was worth Hut Ids 1 u.lnoss was In such order or-der apd his urraiufeinents were so carefully care-fully made that everthlng will go on Just as though h wer "' alive He .,us president of tho Muckaj. Dennett cable company, president of th. Poat.l Telejraph compn, and president of the prospective Pacldc Commerclvl CaN, company vice-president of the new J7 owtwi sugar reilnerj nt onkers, N Y f which till. Spreikms is president ill re tnr of tho ('Hnadlan I'arlnc rullwiv llreitor of the South, m I'm IPC nhd ill ie, tor ot the new proposal railroad f r mi H ivinu to Mntlngn In Cuba, He wos ne of the largest owners nf the White n h Cupper oompanv of Mscka ldi t whhh the Union i'ucllle built s nlnetv mile branch die was Interested with i h rlre t) Im In the Wild lloose Ml iilui. lompsny nt Nome He was hiavllv Inlreeled In the flpragiie Klevator . Elei trtcal Works of New ork HOLDINGS IN CALIFORNIA. In Pan Tranelseo Mr. Macknv owned half the Nevsdl blnik the Urnd Opern house and the big lot at the nouthcaet lorner of Market nnd I'mirth stre, is llr owned, together with I Imd, the Hurl Hurl ranch of about 1 acres in San Mstco eoimt, the Coleman trait of ibout 1500 acres In and adjacent to the city nf Van Rafael, and 3E ncres of timber land In Mendocino count) Ilei, owned several thousand acres of wood land In Nevada between Reno and Truckec In New Vork Clt he owned the roslal Telegraph building, a sixteen-story struc-ttue struc-ttue and he was ihr largest nwnei of the Commercial Cable tompnnv's building a twdltv-ntu-slor struiturt and the property adjacent to It He owned the Territorial l.tu.rprlse n newspaper of Mrglnla Citj, Ncv Mrs Moiku owns Hie piUtlil houst In whhh ho dud In Loud in ALVA AYS REKl Sr.D OVPlCP Mr Mai kill was a member of tho Politic Po-litic I nlon club of 8 in rant Isco nnd of tho Merchants Ext liange He was o standi Republican, tiuv liefore the Civil w ir be was a Hemorrit Agntn nnd ntraln be refused to be Senator from Nevada and eschewed office In tclUlon hs was a calhollc antl two of his warmest friends wrte the late ill-hop Montague who had Jurisdiction over Northern California s mining regions nno a large part of Nevada Neva-da and Archbishop Rlordan Mr Mackav for a long while virtually supported the Catholic orphin asvlum nnd Its 130 children chil-dren at Mrglnla Clf N'ev WAS ALWAYS DOING HOOD In New York he malntatned five or six free licda In hospitals In memory of bis son, Willie who died half a djien veirs aro at the sge of s Mr Mseki was alns doing good q tletl)' antl giving mone nssi A large number of regular pensioners will miss him Mr Msckav tmi to America from Ireland Ire-land ns nn infant with bis father, who .... .rt.runrrl naturalized Rut ulomr In )i.7, James O fair, who was Mr Mack-b Mack-b s partner and also born In Ireland couldn t remember whether or not the elder Pair was naturalized, so to mako sure Pslr and Mackay were naturullztsl toiether in Virginia I'll, Nev by their friend. Sandy Baldwin, .who vyas t nlted Stales District Judge. I think Mr Mackay wan orlglnall) a carpenter, for when he tamo on the Cnmstock, he was considered an authority on mlno timbering |