The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-05-05

Making total for p men off,. SlG2 f.l3 taH
don't suppo.e so many rich men have ever
been collected together in one body, and
when you consider that there are doz ~
men in the house whose aggregate wealth
amounts to over 10000, eco you will see that
this congress is the richest ever brought ta-
gether in any country Think of the eno5-
nous income of these men, and as you do 50
money So that that the millionaire can tura Pm
more than per cent Bat even at 6 per
cent. these men nave greater incomes JTIa1
many kings LELAND Stanford's property
must bring him in nearly s., 000,000 year
and this would amount to $50, 900 a week. or
more than 1900 day Every hour that
STANFORD sleeps MS pffe grows bigger by
$500, and he coull pay out 80 every minute
and still have enough to live upon from the
remainder of his income.
Fairs income if he is not estimated too
high, as / think he is, is more than he can
spend, and Philetus Sawyer, at 6 per cent,
has an income Of S340, 900 a year. Joe
Browns income must asnount to at least
s.. 900 week, and that Of Payne and Don
Cameron to more than $500, 900 year Ma
hone. Van Wyck, Beck Hale, Sherman.
Teller and Bowen at this rate, have S60,NN
to spend ou side of their senatorial salaries
and Miller, of New York. with his fortune
in wood pulp, can spend S3, 900 week and
have pocket money to spare.
In the lower house, Scott, of Pennsylvania.
is put down at $120l0,0 900, and FELTON,, 81
California, at 81 000,0D Put both of these
miIlionaires upon the scales, and they will
not weigh 270 pounds Still, they are worth
s27,OOO, GOO, or slO0.000 to every pound OF
their human anatomy
l sat in the press gallery yesterday and
thought of the changes in the conditions OF
these rich men l knew their lives well, and
NV memory went back to the days Of their
poverty Joe Brown was the poorest of poor
bows. He used to plcw his neighbors' gar
dens for a pittance. all1 his sole possession
when he migrated to Georgia was the bull,
with a bell upon his neck, which carried him
thither. At last he came to a stream which
he had to cross by ferry, and he had nc
money to pay the fee He gave the bell tc
the ferrymar to take him across. Bol
Toombs, who hated Brown, used to say that
he wished the ferryboat had collapsed anu
drowned Brown and the bell and the bull
Henry B. Paynes father owned bricb
yard, and those long thin hands, which by g
stroke of the pen can now make piece o.
blank paper worth $1,000, 900, helped then
TO load bricx, and oft carried the clay
to the molder Stanford, the Croesus of to
day. followed the plow as boy, and thirty
four years ago, when he had just begun The
practice of law in Wisconsin, fire burned
him out and drove him to the west and TO for.
tune. Twenty-Five years ago, Tom Palmer
who now owns home here worth 100000
had failed in bus mess, and was worth lie sthaI
nothing. He married a business mans
daughter. and his trains allied to capita
ground pine lumber into gold Plumb, o
| Kansas worth now $40 and more for every
black hair in this thickly matched head, wa
thirty years ago poor printer, sticking typ'
in an Ohio village, and shortly after TIM
Warner Miller, whose Fortunatus cap is mad
! of wood pulp, was teaching school at littl'
academy in New York state.
! When Philetus Sawyer, who now OWE
! land by the tens of thousands Of acres, ans
/ whose lumber goes all over the world, was )
wears of age, his total savings were -, l99
! At IS he bought his time of his father ant
paid him $500 for it For twelve years h
/ skimped and saved, and then went to Wis
consirl. and with this small capital mad
/ himself a millionaire He told me the othe
day that each dollar of his fortune had mul
/ tinlied itself over / 900 times, and doubt no
/ this is more than true.
John Sherman began life as a surveyor
and when he was married as young lawye
In Mansfield, O., be determined to save ani
invest $500 a year This principle carries
out has made him rich, and the house il
lives in here is worth, douat not, as mucl
\ ss he in early years ever expected to amass.
Beck is now worth 81 000, coo, but he cam
from Scotland to Kentucky poor, and Scotcl
! economy allied to investment has given hin
a fortune. He married, too, grandniec
of George Washington, and some coal land
which he had from the Washington estat
brought nice plum into Jhe family.
Both Jones and Fair were poor men fo
years, and they dug in the minis with thei
own hands Jones made a big fortune. an'
was worth, it is said, s., 900 when h
came to the senate He lost this all by
speculation, but within the last year he ha
struck it rich in the Alaska mines, and it i
said that his interests here alone will yiel;
him more than $4,000 a year. Senate
Sabine, of Minnesota. was worth, think
only sl2, 900 when he cama to that state. H
was worth several millions shortly before hi
failure, but am told he is now out Of ih
woods and Is doing well
IG is much the same with the men Of th
house. George West tha millionaire pape
bag man. OF New 70 X Evas poor boz
working in a paper mill Scott, Of Pen sgl
vania. the railroad millionaire, was a pa {
in congress. and Aba Hewitt who receiee
several millions through the dsath Of hi
father-in-law Is said to have been tutor I