| Show MACKAYS WEALTH Did Not Know Within Twenty Millions Mil-lions What He Was Worth San Francisco July 21 Richard Dey a close personal friend and former con Iklentlal secretary > f limo late John W Mackny says in an Interview I do not imppose Mr Mackay himself know within JCOCfiOWO of whai he was worth Hut hits business was In such order or-der and his arrangements were no carefully care-fully made that everything will go on Just aa though he were still alive He was president of the MackayBenneit Cable company president of the Postal Telegraph company and president of the prospective Paclllc Commercial Cable company vicepresident of the new 7 MOCOO sugar reilncry at Yonhrs N V of which illS Sprookels Is president director di-rector of the Canadian Pnclllo railwav I director of the Southern Paclllc and director di-rector of the new proposed railroad from Havana to I Santiago In Cuhu lie I was one of tile largest owners nf the While Nob Topper company of Mnckny Ida to which the 1 fnlon In rifle built a ninety mile brnnch He I was crested with I Charles IX Uino I In the I Wild Goose Ml nluir eoinpanv at Nnmo Up I was heavily Interested In tho Spragnu Klevator fc J2lcc trlcal Works of New York HOLDINGS JN CAMKOnXFA In San Frmclfcn Mr Mauktiy owned half lie Nevada block the Grand Opera IIOIIKC and th < big lot at tho iionlhennt corner of Market and Fourth Hlrcctn Ho I nwiifl togel itt i with Flood the Utiri Durl ranch of about i llJO acres In San Mateo county tho Coleman tract of about loW acres In and ndJaciiH to lie city of San Rafael nnd ron acres of limber land In MiMidncInu i county I Ho I I owned several thousand acres of wood land In Nevada biitwei n float and Trnckctt In New York City be owned the Postal Tolcpraph building a sixteenstory structure struc-ture t ind 1 he wat the I lar oal owner oft the of-t Commercial fablf companys buDdlng a twcntyonoHlory I sutlet mire and tho property adjacent to It He I 1 owned the Territorial Kiilorpriso a newspaper of Virginia City Nuv Mrs Mnckny owns Die palatial house In which he died in LondonAMVAYS AMVAYS PHFUSED OFFICE Mr i i Mack ay was JL member of the Fa chile Union club of San Francisco and of the iemchtmi tim ISxchnnge He was si HUineli llopubllcan but boforo the Civil wir he was a Democrat t guuiti and again ho icfnscd to he Senator from Nevada ami cscliewed of lice In religion be wis a Catholic and two I of his warmest friends wcro the iatm Bishop Montague who had Jurisdiction over Northern Californias mining icglons and n large part of Nevada Neva-da anti Archbishop Rlordan Mr Mackay for a long while virtually supported tile Catholic Orphan asylum and Its 1JO children chil-dren it Virginia City Nov WAS AMVAYS DOING GOOD In Nuvx York he mninlnlivxl live or six free beds In hospitals In memory of his son Willie who dlod half a dozen years ago ut the age of < Mr Mackay was nlwavB doing good quietly and giving monuy away A largo number of regular pensioners will miss him Mr Mackny came ro America from lie Innd its an Infunt with bin lather who was afterward naturallrd But along In ItGT James G Fair who wus Mr Muck ays partner and also born In Ireland couldnt icmomber whether or not the elder Fair was naturalized so to make sure Fair and Mackay were naturallvwl toqothor In Virginia City Nov by their frlond So tidy W Baldwin who was United Stales District Judge I think Mr Mackny arms originally a carpenter for when be came on the Comsiock he was considered an authority on mlrio Umber lug I |
