Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-14
GEORGIA'S RICH MEN.
Correspondents Hunt for a millionaire
The Fortunes Of Some Of the Wealthtest

GEORGIA's RICH MEN.
A Correspondents Hunt for Mill1onair
The Fortunes Of Some Of the Wealtkie.
Men.
a correspondent Of the Atlanta (Ga.) Con
stitution has been hunting for millionair
in Georgia, and writes of the result of hi
search as follows:
A broker told me that in 1868 the incom
of Judge John P. King, of Augusta, wa
$4,000 per annum. With an income o
$4,000 ten years ago, he must have accumu
lated at least $500, 900 by this lime, which
added to his capital, would put him way owe
81, 100000.
There are in the commercial registers onl,
two men in Georgia quoted at more thar
$5OO,OOO. These. are quoted at I" from
100000 to $1,OOO,OOO. They are Mr.
John White, of Athens, and Mr.. Green, o.
Savannah. There is one firm, Weed &
Cornwall, qnoted at these figures. There is
not single man or firm quoted st 81, OOO,
600 or upward.
am inclined to think that Mr.. White is
probably the wealthiest man in the State
de has had the proprietorship of several
prosperous enterprises for q number OF
years, and is prudent liver and wise in.
weston. His profits on it can never have
been less than 5000 to $40 200 per annum,
and must have often gone up to $4,000.
During the war, of course, the profits were
enormous. If we have millionaire, pre-
sumo he is the man. He is now an old man
and in wretched health, but his restless lit
tie figure is seen daily in Athens, hopping in
and out of his buggy, and attending to bust
ness with as earnest an air as if his rent was
due and he didn't have the money to pay it.
ne IS man of strong head, good heart, and
estlmable in all of his relations.
AS to Mr.. Green, of Savannah, have no
data except the statement of a gentleman
who ought to know. This man told me
that, six years ago, he saw schedule of Mr..
Green's property, which footed up between
$3.50 600 and 100000. It must be
noted, however, that in the CONNER
clal registers we find no men
ton OF such mon as Gov. Brown, Mr.. Fer
dinand Phinizy, Gen. Toombs, and Judge
King, who are not in active business. First,
as to Gov. Brown. He is the unfixed bird
OF the aviary-the phinxes. Nobody knows
anything about him. There is room enough
IN his long old head for his own business,
and he keeps it there. A hurried glance
around will show about 100000 worth of
real estate accredited to him. Then there
are his shares in the State road lease; his in
terest in the Dade coal mines, where it ia
said 100000 in capital has been laid down.
l asked the Governor the other day plumply
if he was worth million.
mo, sir" he said smiling; "a million is q
great deal''
"Do You think there is man in Georgia
worth a million?'
II doubt it. know am not. To amass
million dollars in the South requires the
constant and cautious accommodations of a
long life time. A single accident or DELAY
or misfortune will spoil the calculations.
We people of the South have had good
many interruptions within the present gen
GRAFTON. doubt if there Is man IN Geor-
gla that has accumulated q Million
AS for Gen. Toombs, have his own word
for it that he is worth from $500, 900 to
$5OO,OOO. suppose this is correct. And
yet Gen. Toombs has immense bodies of
Texas lands that may prove themselves
worth this much. The general, while close
and sagacious man of business, has always
been lavish liver, and has been careless in
the direction of his fees.
mr.: Phinzy is generally considered the
Wealthlest man in Georgia. His property is
IN bonds and stocks mostly, and it Is impos-
slble to form any estimate of what it is. He
may be worth 100000, or he may be worth
double that. An Atlanta baoker told me the
other day that he knew in 1873 where MIR.
Phinzy had $3.50 worth of securities in
one place. I think it may be set down that
he has over 100000. The only freak that
| ever knew Mr.. Phinzy to indulge in was
to almost build church by himself, because
they would insist on having an organ and q
choir in the church that he had been attend
ing.
One of the richest men in Georgia is Col
'sMeriwether" Hill, of Washington, Wilkes
gentleman who has formerly been associat.
ed with him in business, counted up on his
fingers for me the other day about $500, DOC
woath of stocks and bonds that he held
Besides this he has five miles square OF as
good land as there is in Wilkes, which must
be worth an immense amount.
But after running through the list of pro-
bable candidates, there is not one upor
whom We can put our fingers, and say
''This is millionaire"
There are two or three that we can suspect
of such thing. But then there were many
who thopght that sturdy old Tom Alexander
was wortha million. His estate barely
made up $500, 900.
am disposed to doubt whether we shall
have millionaire in Georgia for years. w.
do not make money rapidly, as in the larg'
centres of speculation and capital. It is
notable fact that out of the whole list o.
rich men have discovered there is not
single merchant. Cotton, in speculation o,
monufacture, and railroads have made Ties,
magnates.
Georgia is q State of deeorous ways ant
marginal opportunity. An income of $40,
600 is first-class for lawyer, and $1,000 i
not to be sneezed at. In fact, there ar,
many lawyers who would eagerly sneeze q
$4,000; the biggest fee ever made in Georgi,
that can hear of were made by Ben Hil]
he got $6O, 900 in cash in the Metcalf casf
| and was entitled to more than double tia
much. He got cash fee of $65,OOO il
1862, when it was worth in gold about $50,
600. He made $25,OOO in the Kinbal
House litigation. But these were phenom
email fees. Wright & Alexander in Rome &c
cash fee of $4,000 in one inclssure, an
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