Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-07-17
BISMARCK'S FORTUNE.
The German ChanceIIOr's Personal
Estate-HOw He Managed His Bust

Harper's Magazine.
AS prime minister of Prussia Bis
mark had no salary, but as chancellor
of the German empire he receives 81
600 marks (S13, 500 per annum. The
remainder of his income is derived
principally from landed property, of
which he possesses a considerable
quantity. Owing, however, to the
very low prices of grain and timber,
particularly Of late years, his receipts
! from this source are comparatively
small. If Bismarck were simply
nobleman, or even count, he might
be considered wealthy, but for a
prince we can only say he is moderate
ly well off. Down to 1867 his only
landed property was Schonhausen in
the Altmark, which contains about
2,S00 acres of generally excellent
land. In 1867 he added TO this the
manor of Varzin Hinter Pomerania,
which he purchased with the grant of
400, 900 thalers (S2SS, 000) voted to
to him by this landtag This estate,
to which he subsequently added the
properties of Chorow and Sedlitz,
covers an area Of about 80, 600 acres.
1t consists for the most part, however,
of poor land, some of it being scarcely
fit even to grow frs. After the events
of 1870, the emperor, IN his capacity
as sovereign duke of Lauenburg,
presented the chancellor with the
Sachsenwald, lying in the Sci warren
beck district not far from Hamberg,
and stretching down to the Elbe. 1t
/ had previous been crown land, and
comprises an area of about twenty
thousand acres, covered for the most
part with the magnificent beech
/ forests. The prince has recently add
ed to his estate, on which there was
neither arabic land nor a residence of
any sort, the smallT properties of
Schonau and Silt. These adioin the
western boundary of Sach-
senwald and were, by the way, by no
means an advantageous purchase.
Some of the timber of the woods at
/ Narzin is sold to three local paper fac
tories which are worked by the River
| Wiper, and that of the Schwarzen-
beck forests is disposed of to a large
/ powder-mill. Narzln and the Sach-
! u DGuOAuauhCAl.
have the advantage Of being close to
a railway, and their products can be
brought readily and cheaply to market.
The residences on these three estates
are neither particularly large nor in
any way magnifcently got up, but
they are comfortably furnished. And
Friedrichsruhe, which the prince has
transformed from a lodging-house for
summer visitors from Hamburg into
a sort of little mansion house, is, with
its surrounding beech and fir trees
and its winding stream, a really eX-
quisite spot The Sachsenwald, with
the two estates which are now united
with it, is probably worth about So,
| 900, 900 marks $500, 600, but the in
come derived from it does not much
exceed 100, 600 marks per annum.
The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES farming
and forest.culture and has achieved
considerable success in the manage
ment of his estate. At Schonhauscn
he has planted five hundred acres,
partly with oak, and they are turning
out well. At Narzin he has been oc-
cupied in replanting a large tract Of
land which was formerly a beech
wood, and which his predecessor, from
Ia mistaken idea as TO the quality of
the soil, had cleared for cultivation.
And ne has had fir trees planted on
other parts of the estate which pre-
viously were waste, or grew only
sand-grass and neither. The SIX es-
tates which from mis- little kingdom
in the Pomeranian hill country, and
which consist for the small part of
arabic and pasture land, have been
rendered more productive by judicious
management. A park has been laid
out at FREDERICKSBURG, and the stream
which flows through it has been bank
ed and cleared, and it is now ir con
/ temptation to cut down the oak wood
on the right bank Of this stream, and
to plant trees which viii be less pre-
iudicially affected by the dampness of
the soil
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