The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-02
Special Correspondence.l

more of the members of the senate are
millionaires, but doubt if more than
fifteen members of that body could clear
up million dollars were they pushed to
it. | have made soTne inquiries on this
score, and find that the senator's who are
looked upon as miIlionaires by their col
leagues are the following:
Stanford and Hearst Of California.
Brown of Georgia,
gan,
Farwell of Illinois,
Power and Saunders Of Montana,
Jones and Stewart of Nevada,
Sherman ami Payne of Ohio,
Cameron of Pennsylvania,
Barbour of Virginia and
Sawyer of Wisconsin.
There ars other rich men in the SEN
ate. such as Blodgett, Davis, Washburn,
Mcpherson, Plumb, Casey, Aldrich.
Dixon, Edmunds and Squire, but it is
not likely that any one Of these Is en-
titled to be classed as millionaire. In
the house there are three or four mill
ionaires and large number Of wealthy
men. Roswell p. Flower is probably a
millionaire, and so Is hlr. Walker, Of
Massachusetts,. The former made his
money in banking and railway opera
tons, while the latter aIn2ssed a fortune
in manufacturing Mr.. Walker Is
member of the largest tannery firm in
the world, and Is interested in many
other extensive enterprises.
All the world knows how Leland STAN
ford acquired his wealth. Uncle
George" Hearst made his money as
mining prospector and grub stalker"
met the other day q man from the far
west, and he said he would take George
Hearst's judgment on mine before that
of any other living man. Hearst made
his first big strike rs an expert on the
value of mining property. He was sent
by some capitalists in the early days of
California to test and pronounce upon a
mine which other experts had con-
demned. Hearst declared that it was a
big thing, and the company which
bought it out and developed it made
large pile of money. This established
! Hearsts reputation. Nothing succeeds
like success, and thereafter the San
Francisco public was ready to follow
! Hearst in any venture which his name
was associated with. He made a great
blunder on the famous Diamond mines
of Utah, which some enterprising scala
ways had "salted" with real diamonds,
and his followers lost barrels of money
in the fake mine, but they did not lose
| confidence in the man. The most OF
them stuck to him, and put their money
in other enterprises on his recommends
ton, and they grew rich and so did he.
| "Uncle George" Hearst knows what II
| is to pack burro with two months pro-
| visions and start of into the mountains
| prospecting for gold or silver mines.
/ He is the only one of the so called min
ing senators who ever welded pick
/ with his own hands.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, made his
money in railway operations. He was a
| lawyer, and when railways were TO be
reorganized or consolidated he furnished
| the brains while other people furnished
! the railways. That is one of the favorite
methods ~ getting rich in this country,
it seems l could point out scores Of
men throughout the country who have
| amassed large fortunes IN this way. OF
| course it is honest enough, but the sus-
! picion remains that the lawyers, lawyer
like, get altogether too much for their
time and work. The only other million
ARE in the senate from the south made
| his pile in much the same way. Senator
Barbour was a railway lawyer and rail
way president, and the money just tum-
bled into his fingers
Mcmillan and Stockbridge, Of Mich
igan, and Sawyer, of Wisconsin, made
their strikes In lum Der, though they have
since branched out into a great variety
of enterprises. Mcmillan and his part
ners in Detroit, the New berrys, are into
pretty much everything in the state
7 mining, lumber mills, railways, car
works and all sorts Of manufacturing
| enterprises. Senator Stockbridge Is a
| farmer and stock raiser ON huge scale
Senator Sawyer has been dabbling a
little in mining property, and has put
two or three hundred thousand dollars
into gold mines within dozen miles Of
Washington, on the Potomac. The odd
| thing about it is that this enterprise Is
likely 70 pay him handsomely. There
is an immense pile Of low grade ore IN
the banks Of ths Potomac, and the old
miners say that it is the low grade ore
that makes the big fortunes IN the end,
providing there Is enough Of it
An incident relating 70 these Potomac
mines Is worth telling some years ago
Senator Hearst was coming 70 " ASKING
ton BY the Baltimore and Ohio road.
About ten miles from Washington ne
was looking out the car window, and
he turned az tais point and remarked 70
his companion. IN wager money there
Is gold about here, and ! shouldn't b
surprised Il there was enough Of Il q
nav working AZ that tine Hearst did
not know any ozs had even prospected
IN the Potomac hllla BE had judged
simply from the signs which his keen
eve had noted n the surface Of the coun-
nv. The now famous Glen Echo suburb
OF Washington, II which members OF
the presidents family are investors, Is
supposed 20 Be built upon deposits Of
gold quartz Of low grade. Senator
Sawyer's Potomac mines are stlll N op-
Grafton, but the senator doesn't worTy
himself much about them de told me
1 couple Of years s.zO lat be had az tas