The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-16


he can ride twenty miles IN a straight line
over land Of his own- His is rise il deed.
He is a Scotchman. In 1919 he slowed him
self away in a vessel bound for California.
lie was hidden for DAYS in an empty barrel.
he started as q humble clerk in a grocery
store, but soon developed an astonishing
Gift Of assimilation When the Pueblo
lands of Neutrality-suspicious. $1,000 acres
were sold TO pay OFF the Indebtedness of the
old capital, Jacks 'tassimilated" them at the
nominal price of $500. They are invalua-
bic now. He is also "A heavy owner of
real estate in San Francisco. And he is a
powerful Presbyterian pleader and devout
man.
Orange county possesses the novelty of a
cattle CrGsus to the manner born. He is Don
Marco Forst er, whose lands came to him
from his father, who owned mile after mile
and league beyond league of the finest
land under the sum-" Born in the city of
Los Angeles In 1882 Don Marco has lived
always upon his broad acres at Santa Mar
gherita and San Juan Capistrano. He sue
ceeded, upon his fathers death, to $4,000
acres of land, upon which there are now
grazing about 1000 head of cattle and up
ward Of q, 600 sheep. Don Marco is six
feet hight His face shows the bold Celtic
lines derived from his father, while dark
eyes and hair come from his mother, who
was sister of Don Pic Pico, and descend
wife, four sons and two charming daught-
ers. He is a wonderful horseman and a
typical grandee.
Don Marcos early life was filled with an
adventure. 'Once, A." he SAYS, "a band of
cattle under my charge was stampeded by
grizzly bear weighing 800 pounds. Before
giving the matter a second thought las
seed the bear. Then l wished hadn't
Here, again is the opportunity to COM
pare eastern and western men and methods.
An eastern man, upon discovering that he
had indiscreetly las oed a grizzly bear which
he did not want would have cut the lasso
and rode away. This piece of strategy ap~
pears not to have occurred to Don Marco,
and presently "the cinch broken and he
Marco stabbed and shot the bear, and was
triumphant. And he tells Of days before the
boom, when there we're bull fights and
horse races and grand fandangoes.
After paying for his passage from the
Massachusetts coast around Cape Horn. j.
Parker Whitney, now the wealthiest man
in Placer county, landed on Callfornia's
shore with capital of 10 cents. He started
at once for the mines. He, too, soon real
lied that there was more reward in brain
work than in manipulating pick, and after
shooting game in the coast range for the
San Francisco market and realizing little
money, he returned to Massachusetts and
invested in goods for use in Califor-
MIA. He became manufacturer, and
bought large tracts Of California land Re-
turning with large fortune In 1865, he
wrote book upon Colorados resources that
attracted wide attention, and he was sent
| as sole commissioner from the territory to
| the Paris exhibition Of 1867. Through his
efforts Colorado was awarded the gold
| medal. On Colorado's admission to the
| Union, Mr.. Whitney was nominated for the
| - l. i
having no political ambition.
In addition to his place of residences in
| Placer county, in which are 10000 acres,
Mr.. Whitney bought $4,000 acres of tule
land lying between Sacramento and Stock
ton, and including Roberts island. This
he has sold TO a Scotch syndicate. From his
Rocklin vineyard in 1877 Mr.. Whitney
shipped the first carload Of aisins from
| California to the east. He owns, with some
| others, 1000 900 acres of land in Mexico,
| which is used for grazing purposes. He has
| other large interests, the total of all being
| $2,000,0O0.
John D. Laugenour, Yolo county's rich
est man, had % cents when he got to Cali
i fornia in August, 1850. He was "a North
Carolinian. He mined near Hangtown, as
| Placervllle was then known, and in the
| spring Of 1851 his 25 cents had grown to
several hundred dollars. He went to
Yankee Jim's, in Shirtail canon, and, with
| two brothers, opened a miners trading
post. He made money, and bought tract
Of land In Yolo county which he planted
with grain. Extensive speculation in cattle
| added to his RAPIDLY growing fortune, and
| now he has, it Is said, million and half.
AS a banker and farmer Herbert Kraft
has drawn to himself more of the worlds
| goods than any other man in Tehama
county. He is from Wurtemberg, Germany.
His parents came to this country aud set
tied in Pennington, ILL.,, from where, in
| 1852, he started for California. His capital
was SO, which had shrunk to 50, after trip
of hardship and privation, when he reached
Hangtown. He worked as a miner in Pla-
| cerville, saved bis money for two years,
| and opened tin store in Red Bluff. he
prospered speedily, and sold out his business
in order 10 devote himself to general invest
ments He lent money at advantageous
terms. He has tried nearly every sort of
business venture with profit, and now he
has $4,000, 900 and good many years be-
| fore him in which to enjoy it.
The woman In the case is Mrs. Mary
| Murphy OF Santa Clara county. She is 81
years old. and she went across the rockies
with Martin Murphy, her late husband, as
early as 1874, and before the Bonner party
commenced their journey, Mr.. and Mrs.
near the present city of Sacramento Mrs.
| Murphy is the heaviest taxpayer in the rich
| valley OF Santa Clara. She was great aid
| to her husband, and the business capacity
of the couple was a tradition years ago.
The foundation of the great fortune which
she now controls was laid by judicious
| investments in real estate, followed by
extensive dealings in cattle.
| Lake county's richest resident is Henry C.
| Boggs. He is from Missouri. Lassen county
| gives the leadership in wealth to James D.
| Byers, who went west in 1850 from Mead
| vile, Pa. and as a miner, a butcher and
| stockraiser has accumulated vast wealth.
| He is political leader in Lassen county,
and has held a number of Offices A f.
| Redemeyer, a native of Hanover, is Mem
| docino county's magnate. He made his
money by judicious loans at cent per cent.
News of the discovery of gold reached
Col. George Hagar, now the foremost capt.
talist Of Colusia county, when, although
only % years old, be had already estab~
| lished himself in business at Keene, N. H
! The infection took violent hold on him,
and on March l, 1S49, he sailed for the
| golden west. Two months of rough ex-
periences in the mines at Big Bar, on the
Mokelumne river satisfied him that he had
started wrong. He went to Stockton and
conducted a general store In 1854 he went
to Colusia, and, with J. G. Whitcomb pur-
chased nine of the eleven leagues Of the
Jimeno grant. extending from Colusa to
Grand Island. He is the largest resident