Show 1 written for or athla paper HOW TO gir RICH I 1 2696 br bir frank Q G Cu carpenter penter washington D C april ath 1897 HAD a long chat the other othe night might with a man who has made millions in buying pine lands and cutting the timber off loff ot of them he tells me that there are millions to be made in the same way today the man I 1 refer to is ex senator philetus sawyer who has now retired from business and politics and is leading a quiet life at his home home in oshkosh senator sawyer is 0 o now over eighty years of age y a he was born bom in new york his lather father was in such circumstances sat the be thought his boy ought to work alaun a him faun until he was twenty one young bought his time of his father at taver yer teabe a e of of seventeen and until he be was irav one he be worked by the day and roth he H told tod me this last ast night kat and to described how when be went from BW w york rork to VV wisconsin iscon sin his sole capital aust about 2000 i I 1 ask asked d senator came afe make so much money from such a i ff T 1 altert he replied the ome most of my money was made in in buying and selling lumber while I 1 in new york state I 1 could see that sumber was worth rth a great deal the forests there had been rapidly cut and aw be prices ot of timber had risen when I 1 dune caine to 10 wisconsin it was a new state ahad vast tracts ot of pine lands and I 1 believed the day would come when these lands would be very valuable I 1 in aasted what 1 I 1 had in pine and bought more giore as I 1 could later on I 1 borrowed great deal ot of money and bought pine I 1 made a number of good deals turned 1 my money over rapidly and bought move ore and more one time I 1 got hold hola of A tract tor I 1 had a partner with lae in that purchase and we each made fuore than out of the oeal deal at mother time I 1 bought for isoo 1500 some pine pin pinelands lands elands which I 1 afterward erward alt sold for or 1 made other investments emch paid me and upward apiece 6 and in this way a fortune was af gradually 7 ja j accumulated after a time I 1 became mm interested in railroads and lade some money in them especially aja pine lands along the roads you ec soa au all my life has been spent in dealing bp 9 lumber suppose senator sen tor 21 said I 1 you bad to KO back to lesii business again what rould you do or what would you advise ier a young botting man who has a little money to do in in order tomake to make a fortune if I 1 had a small capital and wanted to ge get t ric rich i b P replied senator sawyer 1 I should go to the great lumber regions of oregon washington and california and buy all the land I 1 could carry there are trees there which produce as much as teet feet of lumber and on some of the western tracts I 1 am told there are from 1000 to feet of lumber to the acre in the fir woods ot of oregon and washington I 1 have seen it estimated that the amount of timber on a single acre would turn out cords of wood and the forests there are ot of vast extent and very valuable they will be much more valuable in the future and the nan who can get hold of them will be rich how about the south said 1 I 1 I think the chances for making money in lumber in the south are equally good in georgia and the gult gait states there are large tracts of pine im e and cypress you can get them for for almost nothing now in comparison with what they will be worth in the future we consume an enormous about of lumber and we are using more every year there is nothing that runs into money so fast as lumber and it will surer surprise se you when I 1 tell you how fast trees grow in value why the natural growth of the pine tree is a fair interest on thein the investment senator are not most hese forests already owned by large capitalists dont it take lots of money 0 o operate in them you could do things when you were young which can lot be done now that is true to some extent replied the senator but there are plenty of maces where small amounts can be in vested and a good sharp fellow can make his pile almost as well now as in the past the chances of fortune making are always good tor for the man who has the right eye to see them jagnow I 1 am now eighty but I 1 feel that if I 1 were t go back into business I 1 could make money as easily and as rapidly as ever do you think your success has been due to any fixed principles or did god make you a money maker 1 I dont know about that said the ex senator wish wih a laugh 1 I think god has a good deal to do with success in this lile life by putting the right kind 0 of a mind in the man who succeeds As to principles I 1 have always been temperate and have always looked ahead and trusted myself but dont you think senator we have too many rich men in the united states Is not all the capital going into the hands bt a few if this continues it may i imperil cop e ra 1 the republic ai t think not said the old senator you see there is no law of in this country you can leave your property to your grandchildren and and see me that they have but the income derive from it but you cannot keep it in tb oe family and carry it past them to unborn children it is bound to be scattered very soon atter after you die this seems to be the natural law of the nse rise I 1 and decline of fortunes the children begin where the fathers leave off we would not have our children undergo the h bard ships ship which we experienced and they naturally do not want them now I 1 have given my two daughters the best half of a dollars about a apiece P ce a and I 1 wish thern than to have all that I 1 C can give ive t them em if t their cir children run through the money I 1 leave I 1 cant help it if the they do so they must go back to work as ast I 1 did why here the old senator grew very emp emphatic abic if they do it will ne be no different than t an what has been going going on since thi the beginning ot the world there have always been great fortunes and the men who nave have inherited them have lost them every one knows ot of jab hut but who knows how jobs fortune was dissipated si where will you find the great est fortunes of the past ast all are divided there is no great artune fortune that I 1 know kafig of today that is not being dissipated b tm the bj grandchildren except that of the acors A ors the actors are very thrifty and they seem to stick to their money p how about your health senator you are a very lively man tor for eighty i city M yes es I 1 feet feel very wel well 1 11 rep replied ed the ol 01 old d senator 1 I suppose I 1 am so because I 1 was made that way I 1 had a f capital in the shape of health when started life and I 1 have seen that that part of my capital has been well cared for I 1 dont worry and after 1 I 1 ha have once decided upon a thing I 1 let jet it take cake its course what were ybur best working ip years 1 I believe I 1 was stron strongest gt betge forty five and sixty five my brain waw quicker then and I 1 had bad plenty of nerve I 1 did not get to making big deals until k was forty five yes I 1 cop consider sider my yeam I 1 I 1 between forty five and sixty five as be having been my prime 14 how are times in the west mr sawyer they are much the same as they are all al over the country money is tight and business is slow it will continue so until we have a new tariff bariff law enacted As it is now we are giving work to the people of europe and allowing our own people to go idle we are buying european goods and sending our gold out to pay for them they compete with ith us in every way possible they take mill all they can get and give us as little as irs they can would you advise a high tari tariff fl no replied senator sawyer 1 I dont think yve we need a high tariff but we need a tariff that will protect at present the duties are made ad valoree valorem m instead ot of specific ad valorem valoree means according value or selling price of the goods to the importer now any one can lie as to the price drice of goods and the merchants of europe make out two sets of bills one is for the customs collector at a low price and the other forthe importer at the price which he really pays millions of dollars are stolen from the government by these fraudulent under valuations you cant cheat as to the weight A pound is a pound the world around and it the duty is charged according to the pounds ol 01 goods or the gallons of liquid there would be an enormous increase in revenue it will take time to do this but it must be done before we can have honest importation do you think we will have permanent hard times no indeed this country is bound to come outright out right in the end it did look a little bad when bryan was making such an active fight had he been elected we should have had more hard times for a year or so the next election however would have brought everything all 11 tight 1 t and the country would xer u araus have gone on with izsold its old time prosperity 11 adby by the way senators senator I 1 see that S spooner has come back to the senate yes cesi was the re reply ly he wanted the place and I 1 am glad to see him in it 01 there was some talk of yourself b being e m the senator 1 afes yes ll 11 replied senator sawyer 1 I could have come back to the senate had I 1 warned wanted the position fion wisconsin was was ready to send either spooner or my self our relations have always been friendly and as you say senator spooner has been something like a son to me well weil he came to me some time ago and told me that I 1 could have the if I 1 wanted it band and that he would not contest the seat with me I 1 replied that I 1 would think about it you see I 1 did not want to say that I 1 would do a thing and then regret it I 1 did think the mitter matter over and I 1 concluded that I 1 had had enough of public publia life and that I 1 did not want to come here again how did you happen to come to senate in the first place face mr sawyer 1 I was rather borcea forced ini into it replied the senator 1 I had been in congress for some years but I 1 did not care much to go to the senate I 1 had in fact made all my arrangements to keep out ot of POU poli tics bics and was abent going away to evrope europe eur r e when one of my opponents boasted ea that I 1 did not dare to run against him lor for the senate he said I 1 was afraid to I 1 sent my son in law oft off to paris in lp my place and stayed at home and won soh the election to show him that I 1 could do so at what time did you first come to congress it was in 1865 then you must have known president lincoln yes I 1 did id and I 1 admired him very much I 1 had bad a little experience with him belore I 1 was elected dietel as a member of the house of representatives which showed me the simplicity of the man A wisconsin boy and his father were in the army the father was killed and the son was needed at home to keep the family from going to the poor house I 1 went to washington in order to secure al a discharge I 1 called upon secretary stanton and laid the matter before him he answered me very gruffly that the thing was impossible and that the boy could not be released I 1 then got the members of the house and the senators from my state to sign a paper asking for the release wi with th this I 1 went to the white house and laid the paper before president lincoln he listened to my story and finally said this paper states that your congressmen consider that this boy is entitled to a discharge if any one could be entitled to it I 1 dont like the wording if you will bring me a fixed recommendation from the delegation asking the boys discharge I 1 will grant it I 1 you see lincoln wanted to make the wisconsin delegation responsible for his act I 1 got this paper and about a week later came back to the white house again president lincoln recognized me ine at once as I 1 came in saying 1 I told you that you could n not ot have that discharge unless your congressmen recommended it in reply I 1 laid the paper before him he looked at it and then without a word took up his pen and wrote as follows hon E M stanton you will please discharge this man from the service A LINCOLN As I 1 took the paper I 1 asked mr lincoln to send a messenger with me said 1 I cant can it get at mr stanton without help there is always a crowd about his bis door and he is very hard bard to reach I 1 yes replied president lincoln 1 I will fix that he thereupon yelled out so i that you could hear him all over the white house tom tom A moment later a colored man came in president lincoln detected this man who was his own messenger to go with me to stanton he did so and I 1 at once got at the secretary of war I 1 handed him the paper with mr Lincol ns indorsement endorsement indor on it and he be wrote these words below it discharge this man by the orders of president lincoln and then put his signature under that this gave my boy his disch discharge e and he was soon back in wisconsin senator sawyers suggestion that there are are fortunes to be made by young men in lumbering recalls a curious story huntington it was told me by a man who is now in the government service but who at the time the incident occurred was clerking in san francisco this young man had saved a small amount of money altogether not more than a few hunched dollars he was anxious to invest it and to find a field where he could make a fortune he had schemed and schemed but no good chance seemed to offer one day he happened to be sitting in the palace hotel restaurant at lunch when C P huntington carne came in the young man knew mr huntington ington by sight but had never been introduced to him I 1 he two ate tor lor some time in silence and at last the yung man mustered up courage enough to address the famous millionaire said he mr huntin huntington I 1 afton hope you will not think that fani ani intruding but I 1 would like to ask you a question ask it said Huntin huntingdon glon in a gruff voice well rejoined the young man who was a very modest young man indeed 1 I would like to have you tell me what a young man should do who wants to make make a fortune and is will ling to work woric for it go to africa came the reply even more quick and more gruff than the first one the young man blushed he became angry he thought mr huntington hunting t on had insulted him and he took the words go to africa as almost synonymous w with ith the sentiments usually expressed in go to h he said nothing A moment later mr huntington saw that he was hurt by his answer and he went on 1 I what I 1 it mean say I 1 were a young youn I 1 m man an and wanted to make a for tune I 1 should go to africa I 1 should go first to the river congo and buy a boat there I 1 should then go 90 up through the country buying and selling ivory I 1 believe there is a greater field for money making in africa now than in any other part of the world and I 1 have no doubt that a man of ordinary ability and a little money can soon make himself a millionaire by devoting himself to the african trade mr huntington then went on to ex plain just how he would do the work his conversation showed that he had thoroughly studied the subject and ho laid the scheme before the youn young L ama in such a way that before he leit he told tia mr huntington that he would follow hia advice and go he made all his arrangements range ments to this effect taking hi hiar passage on a tramp steamer for havre from france he expected to I 1 go to abo congo it was a week or so to however before the steamer sailed and in t th meantime his family in the fast east had received his letter announcing his inlew tion they telegraphed him not to go and finally persuaded him out of it the result was that he be came back to waster ington and is now in the employ of or odthe the great departments here in id the meantime africa remains where it 14 is and the chance is open to any other young man who wants to take it w ii cahur |