The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-10
SOME CONGRESSMAN
Pen Pictures of the Great Men of
the Northwest.
SAWYER AS A TYPICAL AMERICAN
Pettigrew, Cush Davis. Washburne Casey
and Hansbrough, shoup and Sanders,
Villas, Powers, Kyle and Young DubOis.

spoudence of The SUNDAY HERALD The
location of the Republican convention at
Minneapolis is the first recognition of the
northwest in national politics. 1t will be
by no means the last The baby states of
the union have some of the strongest men
of the country. and their section promises
TO be power in the future They come
from region which has everything to de-
yelop strong men and great men. Their
muscles and their spirits are toughened by
their continuous fight with the elements
that oppose the settlement of a new coun-
try Their billiards. are the strongest,
their winters are the coolest and their air
is the purest of that of any part Of the
United States and their representative
men have fought their way inch by inch
into fame. There is scarcely a man of
prominence in the northwest in the Senate
who did moi begin life poor boy and there
is not one who has not been a bread-winner
al his life.
UNCLE PHILETUs.
Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, worked
on his fathers farm in New York until he
was seventeen and then bought his time of
the old man for one hundred dollars and
started out TO work for himself His
father was blacksmith and farmer and
Philetus did days labor, hauled wood and
and anything he could turn his hand 10 for
the next four years. de made enough to
pay his brother the one hundred dollars
which he had loaned him to buy his time,
and he made very fair living besiaes. He
worked in New York ten years longer and
in this time saved 81 1873. His brother
made him a present of one dollar more, and
with this sum of s., 200 he took his family
and rora 70 W
five years ago. He is now worth millions,
and he lives in a house in Washington
which must have cost more than one hun
dred Thousand dollars. Every cent Of his
money he made by iudicious investment
and hard work and with every year his
muscles seem to have grown stronger and
his industry and brain power greater, until
he is now, at seventy-siX, one Of the strong
men of the nation. With advancing
years, his stout frame has been cushioned
with fat and he is now almost as broad as
he Is long. He has big dome of a head set
close down upon pair OF broad, we'll
rounded fat shoulders. His hair has grown
gray, and the short stubby beard which
fringes his strong chin is made up of little
silver wires, and and the soft, silky fringe
of white which starts above his ears aud
runs around the great bald dome of his
head looks like boar frost. But the skin
within it is as rosy as the cheeks OF baby
just in from the cold, and the red color of
his cheeks indicates that his blood is full
of iron. He talks W ell and,works well. Rich
as he is, there is no more Industrious man
in the Senate than he, and be will waddle
about all over Washington for any deserv-
ing man who will ask him. He does more
thank-you business than any man in the
Senate, and he has gotten more pensions
for his constituents than any man in Con.
gress. he does more good from kindness
of heart and good fellowship than
ment, and he is one of the few fat
men who are good natured. Out CT his for
tune he has enriched all his relatives anC
he made his brother a present of $1,000
few years ago, telling him that this wa:
the legitimate interest on the 81 he haC
loaned him when he started to Wisconsin
and that he had made about 81, 200 for every
one Of the capital that he had at that time
A large part of Sawyer's fortune came from
his lumber investments. He was in tn,
lumber business before he went to Wiscon
sin and he Travelled over that state shortly
after his arrival and found lust where thu
best pine lands were. Shortly after thi.
there was big auction sale of pine land
ana this sale was made by quarter sec
tons. Sawyer had map of the oistric
and he had figured out on what quarter.
the best pine was. In many cases three
quarters of a section would be swamp an,
the other quarter would be the finest O.
timber land. Sawyer went to the sale witt
this map in his mind and the first da,
he bid upon the best pieces, bu
he found that party of New
York men were banking on hi
knowledge of the lands and were bidding
against him. Whenever he wanted q par
ticular section, these men would run it VI
beyond his figures and take il. He had
reputation for knowing the state and the,
were relying upon his Judgment Tn
second day OF the sale, Sawyer got one O
his friends to bid on the pieces of land tina
he wanted and he himself bid up only tn
poorer sections. The New York men still
followed him and every time he made q biz
they increased ii by few dollars better
The result was that Sawyer's agent got hi
lands for song and that these New Ycrl
men bought great quantity of swamp an
mash. The day after the sale had close
they came around to call upon Sawyer an
asked him what he thought of their Dur
chase. He replied that they had gotte
two or three pieces of good land the Il, s
day, but as for that they bad bought tn
rest Of the week, they had better take a fiji
boat along If they wanted to get at them
SENATOR FRANK PETT1GREw.
The history Of Senator Pettierev sboU
how they make men in the northwest. PEI
tigrew came from Wisconsin to Dakot,
He was born on farm in Vermont and q
six years old was taken to Wlsconsi
where his parents engaged in farming
Inc latnlly was poor, ana young Pettigrel
worked his way through two wears, 20
lege course and got his tuition for ringin
the college bell and doing other chores {
that sort. When he went to Dakota !
make fortune he walked and he travele
over q good part of the state CARRYING
chain for the surveyors. He built The In
cabin in which he lived at Sioux Falls. an
In the words of one of his friends, seein
that the place was a good one. he stuck /
his toes and stayed there. He engaged !
surveying and the real estate bushes
threw himself into the development of tb
territory and slowly but surely amasse
wealth. He is now but a little over fort
years of age, but he has an independent il
come. He works, however, as hard as /
did when he was at college, and you sc
plain, everyday common sense stickin
out all over him. He Is tall, angular an
loose iointed. He weighs, Judge, about
hundred and fifty pounds. and his lor
face, covered with thick brown beard
more like that of good country grocer {
dry goods merchant than that ,
one of the la-de-dah members of Il
Millionaires' club. He dresses in busine,
clothes, wears turnover collar and is n
Mortified when he looks down and fine
that the creases have come out of the froI
of his psntaloons and that the legs begin
bag at the knees. He is known in Dako
as the Pickerell statesman and he is co
sidered one of the sharpest and shrewde
men of South Dakota. Some of his specl
lations have been peculiarly fortunate f
owned at one time the section upon whit
the best part of the city Of Sioux Fal
now stands, and he bought this with Il
first 81 900 that he had saved, having to (
$4,000 in debt for the balance Short
after he had made the investment he four
that his title to the property was weak a,
enit WAS brought against him IN recov