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Show BONANZA KINOS. Till: THE HOME SENTINEL. ! - - MANTI, - low the Famous Millionaires ot the Pacific Coast Made UTAH. Their Money. and Beginning Life as Day Laborers Opportunities OTHERWISE AND PERSONAL. Saloo- n-Keepers Mk. Ole III i.l - regaining health Improved. alowlv after a serious attack of pneu- monia. Tlic Fortunes They Have Amassed. Sen 4 tor Tellf.k dresses in black The four bonanza kings were I air, Irishand combs Lis hair without apart, a la Flood, Mackav. and OTirien.-- all Liche-i.e- u writes Pompadour. men and all Catholics, in The Jirooklyu t.H'je. James Mu. Blaine has sent his chock for 101 to Patrick Ford for the relief of 'Graham Fair, United States senator - gien from Nevada, whose sufferers in Ireland. Dee. ., 131, born a- was Virginia City, Rev. Du. Geukge E. Ellis has been at ( Togher, in the county of Tyrone, Arch-bi.-ho- p of the pre-ide- nt Ireland, near the birthplace of 12 years of age society. When Hughes. John I5k.ei.ow is giving much of he came to this country with his parwhere he his time now to his life of his Gramerey ents and settled in Illinois, and Geneva at his education received S. Tildcn. park neighbor, J. more Chicago, lie paid attention Tuof. Pickehinu, of Harvard, is which to scientific pur-nit- s, honored with the gold medal of tho served him well in Ins after life of British ltoyal Astronomical society. mining. He quite naturally took the gold fever, and in 1819, at the age of V. Catheuine Cole says that G. Cables manager, Mr. Pond, lost $500 IS, he went to California, overland, for ten in Philadelphia and 6i() in llaltimore. where lie engaged in mining or eleven years. IIe went to Nevada Uf.v. Du. Phillips Hicooks will in lsiio, and has since had his residence spend his vacation this tear in a trip there, engaging in mining and conacross the continent and along tho structing water-work- s and immense . laeilic coast. Nevada was then a porqu.irt.-inill-Mu. ami Mus. Plain e and Gail Ham- tion of Utah, and was not organized as ilton have left Augusta, Mi1., for liar a separate territory till March 2, 1X61. thouHarbor, accompanied by William Wal- It then had a population of forty the of not sand. population of ter Phelps. districts, and reir pre-ceongre--ionTjie Indian government has received had not perceptibly increased when it news of the death of the mother of tho was admitted as a state March 2d, 1864. ameer of Afghanistan while eu route to lames W. Nve was appointed by lre-i-.- 1 Mecca on a pilgrimage. lit Lincoln governor of the new terand continue as such till 1861, 15. ritory, H. McDowell, son of the late Gen. Irwin McDowell, is passing threo when it was admitted as one of the months in a San Francisco jail. Ho is states ;md he became one of its first senator-- , w ith William M. Stewart as an editor and i.s in for libel. his colleagues. John C. Cradlebaugh, JIek majestys birthday is to be kept of Cur-o- n City, was its lir-s- t delegate, in London on Saturday, May 22, and wlm-- e stun were Gordon X. Mutt the usual official banquets will lako and G. Worthington, the latter place on the evening of that day. becoming its tir- -t representative on its lii- -t adini-sio- n as a state, Delos K. Gen. Schofield's pretty daughters succeeding him in that capacity. will do what no foreign invader has In lstiJMf. Fair formed a paitner--lii- o with John W. M .ckav. James C. yet been aide to aeeomplish in connection with Governor's island. They will 1 oi m, and Williams. OBrien. This firm purcha-c- d the control of the bonanza-take it by storm. and other m ne- -, which under the ei'inti'iidencv of Mr. Fair yielded su; Sr.NATou Ingvlls is said to have He non,!) M) of gold and silver. made a canvass of the senate upon the ill real eslargely intere-te- d question of transacting executive busi- tate and huild ngs in 8.m Francisco ness in open session and found that and in niamifa, tores on the lae.tie eoa-- l. lb was el eted as a senator there is a majority of six or seven fimn Nevada for a term of six years, against tho proposition. March 4, to ce Mas.-aehu-set- ts lli-tori- par-tieular- lv d one-thir- al ut 1 fs ey 1 w:t-a!- -o commencing U ii'iam Sharon, Mus. Slxatou M vhoxe has presented to the National museum a rare spec-me- n of the gallinule, a very handsome aquatic bird, which ilevv aboard tho steamer soon after leaving Havana and was captured alive by the sailors. 18M, succeed lie republican. to be worth over !0,yooloo) v'd is in property. When Mr. Fair lir-- t arrived in CaliIn1 went to mining, with the fornia liiaeh iiery, oil Feather river, and m variou- - parts ot California met such stmeess in a moderate wav as to keep ldm intent on larger projects. Mr. The Scot eh are displeased at the an- Flood was his lir- -t partner in suecess-- f It lie; ownnouncement that Prin-- o Albert Victor u mining will represent the royful fani ly at the ed about seventy acres of land in thb of Sail l'r.mci-tand has bin n opening of the Edinburgh exhibition on city in the mo-- t y budding part of tin1 but to him. not that 0; May they object city a prun'cly residence to cost a mila princess also lion dollar-- , lie also had an they particularly elegant to be present. rur tl residence1 at Menlo park. Mr. Fair - quick to perceive the valuA disc atcii from Meridian, e1 of wv mechanical appliance-- , and gives information of the death of Col. ingenious in putting them to their best He is skillful in detecting and A. G. Horn, formerly editor of The .Meridian Mareitry, and one of the be-- t fallowing up the indications of ore. miners te say Fair had a tine known journalists in the state, lie was Old no-- e for ore. The dark galleries of secretary of tho Alabama convention the mines are open books to him. In which passed the ordinance of secession, his superititendency he was in all of the mines clay and night, andparts lie was US years old. no shirking of labor was possible under State Sf.n atou John Elkins, of Col- him. lie was an autocratic master, orado, was in Denver when the news and as many desperate diameters as Hashed over the wires that New York were collected around him from all parts of the world he governed with a was so close that it was thought Clov firm hand and uiirt land had it. lie took the train that Many were the fears lenting purpose. expressed for ,;s night to come east. lie was in the personal safely, blithe was a t and for honest work there was sleeper, an at a station some distance this side of Denver a man got on tho prvipt ami liberal pav. on Jan. li, 1871, that the It train, who, after inquiries of the porter, four wins mounted the throne of ifi,. kings came back whore the senator was sit- Kig Km lanza. Mr. Fair took a Are you not Mr. inent part in the direction. The promting and asked: work Elkins? Are you not a relative of of sinking a prospective shaft was proStephen A. Elkins? 1 want to tind out jected, and rapidly pushed. A tlvn about the election. The senators re- seam of ore was detected, and Mr. Fair traced t toot toot was: not related to Steve a hundred teet,by as a through more than "Int sponse leading to Elkins in the slightest degree. Kefore a edew. Nine tunes thread it narrowed to a election I was his brother. mere film of day. but it was never loto the keen e e of Mr. Fair. Mam The death of Lord Melville a few thought it a will o the Mr. Fair was taken sick and retired for a month. weeks ago, says The London A'he-ti- i Wmk was continued in his absence but rum, recalls the memory of a famous without success. In 1873, a fight between him and the late Sir vein of ore seven feet February, in width was Francis Grant when they were boys at w.dening to twvlv e feet. The shaft cut was Harrow some seventy years ago. It tie li 710 feet deep. Tin1 air was foul and was a drawn battle, as both combatants hot for hick of a vent lating draft, alhad their eyes bunged up. When the though fresh a r was forced in by powbowers. The lie! of the Bonfuture president of the royal academy er,!. anza w as t.ikyn oil-- Never in lbg histlie was caraied home to his house, lus tu- tory of time was such a trea-ur- e old tor, red. The bonanza was cut at a Harry Drury, put his head out of his study and inquired: Who won? point 1,1(57 feet below the surla o, ami When he heard that it was a drawn perced agaui as tin shaf' went down at battle he gave vent to language of a the 1.200 fuoi level. Another and hundred feet d eper. and at 1.5(h) most uncomplimentary nature, thfa-fe t ore ric her than ever before d seov-cr- e being that the book collector had bet d vv a revealed to view. What the two sovereigns on his house boy, and extent of the groat bonanza was none and was indignant at not having won could tell. Cro cuts showed that its width was from lot) to 220 feet. Cribs Ids money. P' sim-ple- -t co-tl- de-i- re Mi-s- ., u-- e. ti-- -- ju-- em-play- 1 -t vvi-- p. 1 . un-eo- vi -- an-oil.- er -- 1 f-- - I DUBLJ'HED AT ,,,J of timle-- were eons rn 4 -nu iit to doin'1. A w r.; i "iiii'd'-- r at u ne " the Every where wink in cliaiigmg shut-- , de- - emting and ascending in the crowded cages, with clambering up to their stupes caliches, lliekering or lanterns swinging piekmg and drill.ng the nimbbngoie.or to the stapushing lines of loaded cars of Flashes the1 exploding shafts. tions at powder wire blazing fromof the relit gas and faces of the stupes; blasts mufdrifts; filled the connecting smoke fled oars echoed along the dark galleries, and at all hours a hail of rock fragments might be heard rattling on the floor, and ma-'iv- e lumps of ore falling heav ily on the slanting pile at the foot men could of the breast. Half-nake- d be seen rushing back through the hangthe ing smoke to the stupes to examine result of the blast and to shovel the fallen ma-- s into cars or wheelbarrows. While some were shoveling ore others standing on the slippery piles were guiding the power drills, which churned holes in the ore with incessant thumps, or cleaving the softer sulphurets with steel picks swung lightly by muscular arms. On the 19th of March. 1875, 461 tons of ore w'itc hoisted through the Consolidated Virginia mineshaft alone, and in March of the follow ing year 908 tons were taken through the same shaft in a single day. In November, 1877, over a thousand tons were quarried and brought up in a single day. The miners were nm-tl- y young men of great vigor, food and paid the living on the ehoi-e.- -t highe-- t wages given to any miners in the world commonly clothed in rough circular jackets, stained with clay: loose woolen shirts, blue overalls, heavy brogans, and coarse, felt hats, through which the hair protruded. In the hot levels all clothes were laid aside, except a simple wai-- t cloth, and shoes to protect the.r feet against the hot rocks. Mu-olswelling ke tle-- h waves at of the pick ridges of every on their broa I backs. It was calculated that the bonanza would yield S31.ti0it.fi0t) a year for leu years. A director of the United States mint calculated that the on body in sight in 1875 would yield 300,000, 000. Other quintupled that sum. Shares of the Virginia mine that sold in July, 1870, at 1, rose in December, 1874, to 610 a share, and in January, 1875, were sold at es eon-olidat- ed 700. Mr. Fair was married in 1862 to a worthy wife, and they were blessed with four children two sons and two daughters. Two or three years ago, for some rea-oa divorce was obtained by Mrs. Fair, and they separated. To Mrs. Fair was decreed tin family resilience in San Francisco, and four and a quarter millions in ca-- h and United States bonds. The older son, now of age, went with the. father. The younger son, nearly of ag, and the two daughters. both now under age, went with t lie mother. Their friend- - hope to see the family reunited, and it is said Mr. Fair n, is anxious for that so devoutly to be wished. Sir. Fair all around the world, and the more he travels the more he loves his adapted country, but does not forget the loved island of his birth, to which he is a loyal and dutiful son. In February, 1841, a young man named James Flood, then about 18 for five years of age, bound him-ey ears as an apprentice to Col. Church, of Fort Hamilton, father of our present Judge Cliarlc s V. Church, to learn tho trade of a Some of his biographer- - state that he was born in the city of New York. 1 think he i.s, like his throe other bonanza partners, a native of Ireland. If born in New York, lie was the sou of an Irish immigrant. Five months before his time was up lie1 was taken with the California fever, and applied to Col. Church to allow him to depart, to which his employer eon-s- i C, lf whcel-wrigh- t. nted. In 1849 lie went to California, sailing round the1 llcini in the1 ship Elizabeth Ellen. He took that long journey' to avoid expense. For some time he kept a liquor store in San Francisco, in comwith his Mr. O'Brien. In pany friend, 185 1 lie became known to the financial world as the leading partner in the firm of Flood & O'Brien, in connection with the Comstock and afterward with the llale and Noreross mint's. Flood & O Briim were the first bonanza kings, and Flood first projected the Nevmla bank, in San hr, incised, with a paid up capital of 10,0n0,0(i0 in 'gold and or 1,000,000 in United Stales bonds. Among its directors were Flood, Fair and Maekny. Mr. Floods name has been connected prominently with the Nevada bank, Pacific Mail and t iningly well founded, had LanghKn. tinworking of t , ,, j jr" tohini, but lie in 170 in St. lCn, provided for ill the family of the Jerome B. C bailee, out money to p:u f ree of the house in the al. Peter O'Kdev formerly of Colorado and delegate to vears in , and rounded by unsi eu congre-- s from Colorado territory-cho-e- n . its representative in the Lnited to Ins cra7.edbr-.fiCapo. States senate. Miss Jennie. 1 presume, with find a husband whenever she v can who , Glea Mr. Flood has a sou ak-is with him. I believe his wife is livadvice, r , lC VK and McLaughlin, ing. When Flood & O llrieu kept their saloon in San Francisco they had a horse funner fill pauper still bonanza kingrbroiv,o which was taken care of by a man jre Thus ,av, e see bow' named Finnegan, lie was a faithful G man. Flood took a fancy to him and him a hint in bonanza times which Historic headqu He he was shrewd enough to take, and he bc'cauu1 another of the millionaire Where the Southerners r ! of tiie Pacific eoa.-- t. W dezvous In John W. Mac kav was horn in NovemIn passing the New ber, 1835, in the city of Dublin, Ireland. He came in his minority to New York. observer chanced to recall Uded Was for a time in the employ of Wilmg piece of liam II. 1144)!, shipbuilder. In the outbreak of the rebellion wall of one autumn of 1852 he went in became the stopping Webbs vessels round the Horn to Caliproved hS fornia: went to Sierra county and com- quarters of those who formenced placer mining. His first plotting treason andprenJ 'lantl' k tunate employment was on the stroy the nation. It is J.1 tTarn. mini1, in the town of Gold Hill, Cran-to- n fed great number, who Nevada. In 163 lie formed a partnerwho came to New Yorkdur'-HP of M. Walker, Virginia, ship with J. which the next year took in Messrs. anil that he was the j Tw amount of personal prop Flood and O'Brien. Mr. Fair afterward took Walker's place. Ihevstic-seecle- d to leading southerners, k lytlv in opening up the Consolidated that the money which was ' Lil Virginia and California, since known as New York in 1856 far the d sei On the 25th of lie Big Bonanza. ugu', !'irl.u November, 1867. Mr. Mackay married carrying publicans in the state elwtil;0 the daughter of Col. Daniel E. Hunger-forof the United States army, and sceutive results of whi.h Tl , widow of Dr. Thompson, a partner of wete the election of Buehaci; lines Mackav, who had been killed by the defeat of Fremont, the rfi. e ani falling of a rock, and adopted Thomp- the abolition of sluiery and r son's daughter as his own child, for he obtained through the etTurt-- n a fi had promised Thompson, at his death, ter Isaac 1 owler, and wi. jain. to see that his wife and child were not Philadelphia on the eii s fori neglected in that wild region. 'This that carried tho at daughter has recently married an Italian win Forrest ? w ho plaw-mushwith a title older than any of the Philad' lnliia on the is n,: rooms of England. His wife, who re- This money bought tiierr i 81 y sides in Europe, was recently Scan party, for wlm--up e all at the English court, with publicans had been bargain diamonds, pearls, and other tra-- li suf- ried tlie day. 'I he ilemoer ficient to break a donkey's back. She state election in lcnmdm ought to be able to hire a servant to aid of the I!, carry them around for her at royal re- came president, and puorL ceptions. Her hit band might lend her was left in a sorry position, b s one of his old for the ser- Lie to repay borrow ed n, Id Lli vice. ehanan knew all about t& Mr. Mackay now owns, with Mr. would not lend a helping t iu' James Gordon Bennett, a telegraph F'owler fled the country r&b i1' cable of his own. been the direct means of ek This day laborer became in succes- ehanan. p'vnsion the superintendent of the CaledonNew Yorkers r - ' 1, Many ian Tunnel and Mining company, next Lincoln campaign and t'f'bij a large owner of the Kentuek mine, and Awakes. The democrats i, associating himself with James G. Fair the Breekcnridge faction, j they got control of the Hale and Nor- New York hotel their head eross mine. In the California and that time. Then it was that r'; ,! Nevada records his name is spelled southerners and northern Mac key, now it is given as Mackay. blocked the streets nrome; The fourth of (lie bonanza kings was by day up and made night In! William S. O'Brien, anil the only one .... of them who has died, lie was a na- Awakeyells. were im; headquarters tive of Ireland, lie had a marthe hotel, at oppo-it- c directly ried to a Mr. Coleman, who lived at the whole campaign the a ,j Bay Bidge, near Fort Hamilton. Mr. parties did not engage in r. Coleman was owner or part owner of cuff, but took it out in jelli:. a valuable clay bank in New Jersey, s The but had not made much out of it. torches charged upon the . Whether Mr. O'Brien became acquaint- rebels whenever the latter r., ed with Flood at 15ay Bidge or Fort to trespass on the former's- ;r c Hamilton, 1 cannot tell but at all street, and on the night events he was an original partner with when Lincoln's election wi i,;; gy. him. Flood & O'Brien kept a saloon in the cleaned t' in street, near ltd generally. Sail Franeisc o, called the Auction after Lincolns r: Immediately Lunch. They kept no bar, but drew the southerners logic. ; their liquors from casks, piled one above numbers in this began the city, the other. The saloon was much freputting up at the New York o. quented by miners, when over their the smaller fry meet'ng ' 1 a gla es they had many interesting rem- evening at a little saloon q iniscences of their fortune's and misfor- one of the side streets. Hi'j the, tunes in minis. The saloon own- laid the for the attac. tu ers soon became thoroughly acquaint- Sumter, jilans and here the calcta ed with all the details of gold and silmade for dividing the repubb f, ver mining, and they btored away their cor u tablishing the southern knowledge for future which were subsequently car, t Mr. O'Brien died in 1879. Ilis nephfar as possible. It was sad ew, a son of Mr. Coleman, of Bay southerners left their niour ? t. Bidge, was with him as a clerk on a and other property " ith salary of 100 a month. This nephew, and that he kept it all safely i o 5 i James Coleman, was graduated at ward delivered it over to Mr. or hope Georgetowi Catholic college. , reward fee, 0 Brie n had presented Mr. Coleman Mr. Cranston struggled three with half a million in 4 per cent United a? f q carrying the odium .. States bonds, and made him and Mr. hellion, hr He men. of union brium Flood his executors. It is said that he counsels and was silent, but ; contemplates coming to congress, and very much in the s j(; 1 see no rea-owhy he should not suc- Very few union people ceed. York! and though New y Mr. O'Briens estate was valued at hotel, with rebel sympathizers am y, $10,000,000. To each of his two sisters wished to dismember the he left $6.SOO.OoO,atul to 7 nephews and these mi n did not stand bvaa 3 noioes 300,000 each. To the Catholic thee by giving him and Protestant orphan as huns of San Cranston as one would suppose they t, , Francisco he left 30,000 and 20,000. 4 wil To the Catholic orphan asylum of San wine more free Rafael he left 50,000. Some litigation and drank 8t. Nicholas.1 took place in d g of the estate. Metropolitan, ,,uniO"1;0'!'-i;dall avenue If I remember Gghtly a brolher, who at the hotel of their l!ri5.-j- ; y was suppo-e- d to be dead, turned up to Well, this is the way of the" . conte-- t the will, but that was At the time the attempt y j y The amicably settled. set fire to the hotels m , e. Virginia company bad some litigation means of inflammable niatery with Mr. O'Brien anil his estate, and it ed in Judge Finn ordered $1.0, 1,000 in United those engaged in tlie plot in i . .v States bonds to lie retained to answer nal m at the N,vr !' ( to the tain r But there was money fore eting t separating and hou-- e enough for all, and nis relatives, with lodgings my, the at numerous orphans of both religious deburned. After the attem; assem nominations bless his memory. Mrs. of patriotic citizens Calc man was a widow at the" time of I. feeling her brother s death, and still remains streets, and the was simply ' hotel York so, living in San Francisco. One of her Cranston undoubtedly daughters was, I think, married recent- about the plot, uevertbely ly. or soon after her uncle's death, to a tain that a work of comnm would ny wealthy gentleman of Baltimore. leading union man Only one of the four bonanza kings tlie sack tire to Y populace dead! But other Carson York Graphic. prominent val.ej men have cros-e- d the dark river. I have already mentioned the sad death .t Enl Hello, said a smith of llnrv C onistoi k in 1870 t folks old Your chum. Finney gn ltr,t ,, t. r who gave his name to the irginny, 8o's ours. Dad says he011 Mine mines and to the largest city of the shell rv any longer. Into lt;, stat1, having sacrificed everything for you aoin ter move ere diuik, fell Irom his horse and broke Where are you I Into yar 1 as i his skull in June, I860. Patrick Mc- ToU. ford far report, -- e .,t - ..- iiet' . -e 5 ntlv-iiciva-- lefi-latu- Wy re 1 ea.-il- wi-lie- o, s. lri.-li-ni- eu war-tim- e i, Ken-tuc- vJ cu-t- uj f', Pcim-lvan- ia d. a ,, me-an- iB mo-tl- pre-ent- ed n know-nothing- s, -- pack-mule- - B m- f Jl si-t- er Wide-Awak- - j of Wide-Awak- Wa-lfingt- es ISan-o- 1. r- tt'-- ei jt . t u-- i e. . l- - , lo-- ; n . - - - u i ber and Flume company, San Franei Gas-Ligcompany. Golden City Chi ieal works, Virginia and Gold Water company. Giant lovvder ci panv, Ophir Mine company, and v Yellow Jacket. Union Scorpion. Savage, Ophir, Occiden and Noreross, Gould and Cm J Con-olfil- Con-olidat- B'st and a! Virginia, California, i Belcher mining com nies. He has had a larger inec than any of the Koth-ohild- s. 1 millions a month from the bona mines have been divided among f partners of whom he was one. lie been at 31,000,000, perso He has been buildinc property. hon.-- e on Nob hill to cost 5,000.( and has been collecting immense tn tires in works of art. One of his e- -t treasures is his daughter Jem one1 of his pre-cuto her was the s of 2.5(10.000 in United States 4 emits She has been several times i po-e- d of. one time she was to given to the church as a nun, at other time to Lord Beaumont, and a third time Ulyv.es, son of Gen. Gra 4 he last seemed to be the most serio ed t ts d spo-in- ) te Con-olidat- ed . hand-saedn- is-u- e. ag-- - P- 1 . . v I O'! 1 .1- b- - |