Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-07-22

set Cox Just before he went to Turkey.
and he told me a short time after dis
that he had sold il for 10000, and had
made just $40, of OF It.
MONEY IN BRICKS AND MORTAR.
There are, | venture, fhy men in
Congress who have made and are MAY.
ing more money out OF bricks and NOR.
tar than from law making. lanes d,
Blaine added materially 20 his fortune
by his real estate investments. and Mrs
Blaine is one OF the blk taxpayers of
Washington. Blaine's house ON bupont
Circle cost him about 5000 and n has
Melted more than - per cent during the
past ten years from the rent which Letter
has paid for Il. II the reports are correct
its rent has brought In during this time
to the Blaine family some place between
hundred and hundred aud twenty.
five thousand dollars. The house In
which Blaine died was bought by him. /
understand, for $40 q square foot The
ground upon which It IS located must be
worth over Sioo, 600 today Just next To-
Blaine's house Is the yellow Old fashioned
brick OF Don Cametou's. for which he
paid $4,000 six or seven years ago and
which YOU could not buy u6W Tor
$1,000 II has a wide frontage. and
like that oil Blaiue's. would be hast Inc
place for great hotel OF Hat. Don
Cameron owns great deal OF property
about Washington. lie has a large
amount Of suburban real estate and ii
seems that all he has 10 DO is TO sticl;
the spade OF his speculative brain into
the ground and the earth straightway
turns into gold. Shrcwd as VAS NIX
father Simon, Don Us said 10 surpass
him, and he has made gold galore here
In houses and lands He built a bic
red brick mansion ON Dupont Circle.
which cost him. am told. something
like 10000 and he sold q In 1855 f6r
sos. 900 cash. This house was bought
by -. +. Morgan, New York banker.
and is now owned by bis widow. lust
across from II Is the old Window house
In which Blaine wrote the hfst part of
his book and which practically ruined
It's owner politically. photographs Of il
being made aud distributed with the
question as to how a man could build a
house of that kind out Of F5.uoo a year.
Cameron has place a'u1u the 9Th
street road for which he paid something
like $3.50 per acre. but which, IL Is said.
you cannot buy for a thousand
HOW DON CAMERON lost 4 FORTUNE
on the other side OF this house Is the
home Of the eNNice President, Levi r..
Morton, which cost him a fortune, and
on which he spent another fortune in
improvements. Mr.. Morton bought this
house from Telephone Bell and il was
in connection with Telephone Bell that
Don Cameron made one OF the lew
mistakes Of his life. lie must have
thought Of Il often when Bell lived in
this big rcd brick house with him. for
which he paid Stoo,ooo. The mistake
that Cameron made was in not going in.
to the Bell Telephone Company
Shortly after Bell had made the inven.
ton and when the people a. yet had no
iaigh Ia Il he called upon Don Cameron
and offered him a controlling interest IN
his company for 5000 Cameron
hesiiaicd for a time aud finally refused
aud Bell left his house disappointed
man. lie got the money from other
quarters and made his fortune without
the aid Of CamCron's money. Had
Cameron given him that 10000, Il would
have brought him In the neighborhood
OF million dollars year, so am told,
for number Of years. In talking Of il
some time ago he said 10 one OF his
friends 81 would have advanced the
money II hadn't been hard mp At the
time. believed tina, the investment