The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-02-02
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
Yesterdays Quotations and
STATE of Trade--Mi~ceiiane-
oys Commercial Matters.
COMMERCIAL.

Fx,N1xFp OFFICE, February l.
There has been more active enterprise
ON fine mart of our merchants to-day than
for many days past. The lobblng trade
hos heen considerable and retailing goes
There was considerable cotton III town
to.dav. and it sold at a general decline
of about 18c. ,1,o,,e,o
was large, and apparently netted, niue
TO either buyer or seller. Several large
contracts we're made for various days
during this week. The TRANSACTIONS III
Receipts Of forage were light to-day
Indications are that within ten days
with fair weather, the market Will De
more than supplied. Attempts We're
made to sell oats at Coo, deliverable a
week hence, and resulted III failure.
There is only a small supply of country
produce in the city and fresh supply
is eagerly looked for.
Mr.. Francis Fontaine, of Macon, has
recently made an advance of SlOO,uVO 10
Georgia farmers on improved lands ana
will probably increase the amount 70
100000 during the present year. ne
charges less than legal interest, and MS
enterprise promises to be largely bene-
ticlal to the Georgia farmers.
To show what a disturbance could be
created in the commercial world by the
| great capitalists, we give the reported
valuation of the rich men of the country.
| One man alone is able to control the
| entire cotton crop. A union of this vast
I wealth would derange all the other
products. We quote from the New York
| Star: SIS not this great concentration OF
riches to be considered dangerous?
| Before the war there we're few men II
the United States worth over S5,OOO,OO0
Most of A. r. Stewards property was
| acquired during and after the war. Most
uf Tho men now worth Sl0,0OO,OOO were
considered poor and honest twenty-five
years ago. To-day w. H. Vanderbilt has
| $50, OO0,0O0 in United States bonds: and
he is reported to hold some S50,0OO,OOt
in New York Central and Hudson River
stock. S50,000,000 in other railroads
in this and other states, and vast amount
l of valuable real estate III this city. His
property cannot amount to less than
! S20O,000,000, and probably is nearer
S3OO,OO0.000 than the former sum. He
is, without question, the richest man on
the globe to-day. He could buy any
of the Rothschilds, and still be the
richest man in the world. And, unlike
the rich men of England-the Dukes OF
Bedford, Westminster, Argyll and Buc-
cleuh, who inherited their great estates
-Vanderbilt's property has been accu-
mulated in two generations ana most OF
it within thirty years. The case stands
without parallel in history.
1t is a singular list of names
that follow that of Vanderbilt in
this catalogue. We take each
at his reputed valuation; jay Gould,
Sl0O,000000; Mackev, S50,000,OOO;
Crocker, S5O,0OO,000; John Rockefeller,
of the Standard Oil Company, 100000
600; c. p. Huntington, S20,0O0,000 ID.
O. Mills, S50,0o0000; Senator Fair, $50
100000; Ex-Governor Stanford, $4,000
600; Russell Sage, S10,000,0O0; !. Il.
Keene, Sl5,O00,O0O; S. J. Tilden. S15,000,-
600; E. d. Morgan, S10,000,000; Samuel
Sloan, S10,0O0,000; Commodore CARR
son, $1O,000000; Cyrus W. Field, &c.
100000; Hugh J. Jewett, S5,000,0O0; Sid
ney Dillon, S5,000,000; David Dows, So
100000; J. f. DeNavarro, S5,000,000;
John W. Garrett, S5,000000, and W. w
Astor, S5,000,000.