The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-22
bonanza Kings.
SOME INTERESTING STORIES ABOUT TIE GREA'
BANKERS.


SOME INTERESTING STORIES ABOUT IHE GREAT
BANKERS.
A letter from San Francisco to the 81.
Louis Republican says the reign OF fst boz
napza kings is about over. Their wealth
has been largely over-esiimated. and in-
stead of being worth hundreds of millions
the firm Is said to have assets equal TO ab0st
forty millions. or this John Mackey own
two fiftbs. and james c. Flood. James g..
Fair. and the estate OF w. ). OBrien the
remaining three ffths In equal proportions.
For two years a SUIT has been prosecuted
against The firm with great vigor 10 compel
them TO account for some $40. 900. 900
claimed to have been feloniously withheld
from stockholders in the various mines con-
irolled by them. All preliminary Law points
have been decided in favor Of the plaintiffs,
and The cause will now be tried upon the
facts. or course there is no telling now what
the result will be, but there is at least pos
sibiliy that the bonanza firm will have 10
disgorge goodly portion OF their gains.
Mackey is
TUE BEST MAN OF THE FOUR.
He is miner, and remains at Virginia
City because he |. most at home there. Hss
handsome wife. who ia said to be an excel
ltul WOndh, hNtS III gfcdt SI'lChuoi "hiS
her children at Paris. Mackey' generous
nature, it is said. has been scured by his
experience with sharper and more unprn-
eli pied men than himse and he has become
mOrOse and suspicious. Fair has retired
from active business, and is travelling for
the benefit OF bis health. O'Brien died a
few years ago, and his estate, which did not
"pan out" as largely as was expected, Is
now in litigation.
Flood, who is the keenest OF the party,
and who has managed the stock manipuIa-
ton, is probably the most heartily -despised
man on the Pacific coast. He has bled the
people for ten years most mercile>sly. He
distributes bis points" through private
secretary and a number OF Others. The
public bites and in turn is invariably bitten.
Flood gave Johnny Skae point once.
JOHNNY was worth S2,5OO,000. He is worth
S250,000 less than nothing now. Points
were given TO thousands OF others and most
OF them
LOST BI THEIR VENTURES.
Many Il prosperous merchant and thou
sands OF well-to-do people in the middle
walks OF lie lost their all in the meshes OF
the net 30 adroilly set by Flood. One man,
however, was too deep for the big firm.
They sent jim Keene point by one OF
their parasites. Keene was delighted, and
set up the champagne. Then he went and
" cOppered" the point-did the opposite
OF what was advised. When he went TO
New York to wrestle with the bulls and
bears of Wall street he took six millions
with him-siX millions that the bonanza
men could not reach.
Flood, however, undoubtedly was sim
cere when he told L. 5. Grant, Jr., what
stocks TO invest in il he wished 10 make q
little pile. The Young man ventured, ana
pocketed about $500, 900. But this was only
q roundabout method chosen by Flood 10
give his prospective son-in-Iaw lit. III
would look much better, Flood thought no
doubt, than for him to give Young Grant
the money outright. Miss Jennie,
FLOODS DAUGHTER, HAS TWO MILLION FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
In Government bonds. and the young cOu-
pie will have very fair start in life. The
acquaintance OF thG Flood and Grant fami-
lies, it may be stated in this connection, Is
not OF recent origin. Ii began many years
ago over the pine counter Oithe little saloon
kept by Flood Il O'Brien In San Francisco
during The days OF the ArgOnauts, where
Captain Grant was a frequent visitor. \
great political reyusion caused the heads OF
the families to drift apart. The one was
| tossed into fame by the chances o. war; the
other was thrown into the lap Of luxury by
! successful gambling. After this long sepa'
ration. and under these changed conditions,
the two great families are about TO be united
| by Il closer bond Than before.