Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-07

'hC iAiiS VI tllc lSlanuS, ana tf.e King
IS his servant He then stocked the
islands at $500, 600 believed sincerely,
l think, that he had one of the surest
things in the world to make money.
and invited his friends to cone in
with him. The island is well ada oted
for sugar cane, but without water the
cane will not grow. Huge irrigating
bitches We're laid out from the SHOWS
ON the mountains by distinguished
engineer steam plows dug up the soil,
port was built two of the finest
steamers that John Roach could make
were purchased, besides line of
scheoners to carry the sugar To San
Francisco. The whole scheme has
cost about So, 500, 600. One little mat
ter was overlooked, that it does not
rain out there but about once in four
or five years, consequently there has
been no rain, go sugar, no water in
the bitches, and nothing for the yes
sells to do. The stock that | and 9th
ers bought cost about $62 share; to-
day it is down to IS a share. Antici-
pating myself that there might be
some mistake, l sent man out to the
island with instructions to go to the
nearest telegraph station and send me
word. That te egraph station was
Hong Kong, China, to which he made
his way, ana sent me a message
around the globe, and therefore | got
rid of my stock at S45; otherwise
should have been entirely cleaned out.
My judgment is, however, that Claus
Spreckels thought the thing good.
Said L: WHO is the wealthiest
man in Californian
Jim Flood, worth 500, 600, 600; he
is a liberal man and a shire wd one.
He. has built up in our San Francisco
Bay a new port called Costa City,
with magnificent store houses and
piers, from VIII CT the wood of these
rich counties is shipped direct to
Europe and the world. O'Brien,
Floods partner is dead and his for
tune distributed. Mackey, one of
the bonanza crowd is thought to be
worth $50, 900, 000 and Jim Far worth
perhaps $40, 900, 000.
Said l How in the world did
Flood and O'Brien make such for
tunesW
Just in this way, my friend" said
Mr.. Hyneman, taking up a piece of
paper and lead pencil, Flood and
O'Brien kept a saloon, and the drinks
were twenty-five cents apiece. Fair
and Mackey were miners who for
some years did not strike any thing
very rich So they gave mining
stock for the drinks instead of money
The habit was to walk into the saloon
with three or four friends, ask for
the drinks and drink them, repeat and
say to the bar-keeper, This is mine,
and walk out. The bar-kecper made
four marks with pencil and a fifth
mark across them, signifying 81 %
for each round. These rounds would
go up to a pretty high figure, but on
certain occasion Mackey or Fair
would say, Well, Flood we want to
make a settlement for drinks, and
they would give their mining stock at
certain valuation current at that
time which Flood and O'Brien
put into the safe. Behold On a GER
tain day metal is struck in prodigious
quantities in the mines that Fair and
Mackey own, and when Flood and
O'Brien open the safe and count the
stock they have, it amounts to more
than Fair and Mackey's, so when the
mines were pouring out their million
or two every week these saloon keep
ers who had been receiving twenty
five cents per drink for watered
whisky started a fortune.
Have any of those men produced
sons of any consequence"
None whatever. The parents were
tolerably keen and somewhat gener-
GUS people. Mackey has set up sew
eral persons in business, partly from
somewhat from conceiving
that they would make money. The
tendency of such new tangled families
is to be voluptuous.
Said l WAS it any matter of
grief to Senator Fair that his wife got
a divorce?"
Not bit; he gave her 1900, 600
And she would have been satisfied
with $4,000, 1000 but the lawyers got
50, 600, 900 more than she expected.
She was his washerwoman when he
was a miner, and washed his shirts
and socks. 1t probably gave neither
of them much distress of mind.
what has become Of Denis Kear-
ney and Kalloch?n
"Kalloch is somewhere in this guar
ter of the globe. Kearney has play
ed out, and keeps some kind Of a gin
mill, out beyond the Cliff house, on
the sea leach, and he has the bones Of
his old horse stuck up before it for
sign. The talk about socialism which
existed in his day has entirely faded
out, and the Pacific coast people are
not in danger OF being much excited
hereafter by subsidized demagogues or
agitatiOns.
Mr.. Hyneman thought that Grant
and Blaine were both interested in the
Alaska Fur Seal company, which was
very profitable.