The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1891-06-27

the following figures:
Standard Oh stock Observation-Disclosures. $40, 400, on
!.remi'lms on same. ................ %, OOO, 90!
Real estate. 1000, OO
Railroad stocks and bonds. oo,Ooo, oO
Natural gas stock. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1000, ON
Bank stock. Observation-Disclosures. 5000, OK
Manufactured gas stock. ....... go. 5000, COX
Steamboat stock Inman Line, Be-. 1,OO, ON
Mines In Utah, Wisconsin, &C.,. 4,0D, 00l
Cash on hand ................. ....... 1000, ON
Miscellaneous. Observation-Disclosures. 10000, OOt
Total. sl2o, 900, oo(
It will be seen from this state.
ment that Mr.. Rockefeller's invest
ments are of the most solid, sub.
stantial and remunerative descrip.
ton. This estimate of his wealth,
however, is confirmed by no less
an authority than Mr.. Rockefeller's
associate millionaire, Henry NJ
Flagler. Mr.. Flagler not long ago
said that he knew Mr.. Rockefeller's
income was in the neighborhood
Of 100000 year. Reckoning
that his investments yield an aver
age of 6 per cent, and there is not
much doubt that the gilt-edged
securities he holds pan out at that
figure, this gives him a capital Of
$15O,OOO.OOO. The vastness of this
income may, perhaps, be better
realized when it is calculated that
$4,000, 900 a year means something
like $4,000 day. At the same
time as making the statement re-
ferred to Mr.. Flagler said that his
own income was 100000 a year
and estimated the wealth of Col.
Oliver Payne another Stanard Oil
magnate, at $22,OOO,O0O.
The only man, probably, who
has ever lived in America whose
possessions were larger than John
d. Rockefeller's possessions at pres
ent was William H. Vanderbilt.
There is no reason to doubt that at
the time of William H. Vanderbilt's
death he was worth over 5000, OOO,-
600. Indeed close friend of Van
derbilt once said that Vanderbilt
took him into safe-deposit vault
and showed him securities that
aggregated even more than this.
w. H. Vanderbilt's wealth, how
ever, was divided up at his death
and no one of the Vanderbilts now
not even Cornelius Vanderbilt
has anything like this amount of
money. After Rockefeller, the
wealthiest man in America to-day
is unquestionably William Wal
dorf Astor, who is worth probably
$1O0,OOO,OOO. Jay Gould is worth,
according to the most careful esti-
mates by well-informed Wall street
men, about $5O,OO0,O0O or $50, OOO,-
600. In comparing the Rockefeller
fortune vita the Rothschilds for
tune it must be remembered that
although the entire wealth of the
various branches Of the Rothschild
family adds up to perhaps a billion
Of dollars, no more than $4,000
600 is in the hands Of any one
member of the family.
In establishing any comparison
between the Rockefeller fortunes
and other notable fortunes held by
human beings ON the face of this
this fact deserves to be
pointed out: The Rockefeller for
tune is the accumulation of com.
paratively few years, and it is the
accumulation, of one man and that
by no means an old man. John
D. Rockefeller was born in 1889
and is therefore now only a little
over fifty years of age. He did not
go into the oil business out of
which his vast fortune has been
made until after the war, that is
to say about 1868 or 1869, when