Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-10

$4,000 in piping water over If and r,,,
| thus MAKE IL worth about 5400 per acre. When
he built the Hotel Baldwin in San Francisco bo
couid not purchase the ground he wanted. The
result was that he leased it for twenty wears
and put buildings worth two millions and bnis
on 1t. He haG, / am told. RECENTLY bonobt tha
ground. paving three-quarters of a million for
IT. he makes here on his VINEYARD n great mart
OF the wines used at his hotel He has 400 0O0
gallons OF wine and $4,000 gallons OF brandy in
ms vaults mere on his ranch. This brandy is
from three to twenty years old, and some Of II
Is certainly very fine. 1t takes one hundred
tenants to manage the different parts of his
farm. and he has more than four thousand head
of cattle on it.
His stock is largely made up of Devons and
Durhams, and his dairy is said to be a very
profitable one. He has a thousand hogs ami
2o.00o sheep, and his horses are known all the
world over. '--0
FORTUNES IN HORSES,
spent some time during my visit to the
ranch IN the stables. There are no frills nor
rurpeiows about this part of the land Every-
thlng Is plain and simple and no money is
wasted anywhere. 1 don't think Mr. Baldwin
wastes very much money except ON his own
personal enJoyments. and he is certainly not
ext1avagant In the fitting out Of his stables.
There is no gilt-edged harness or hardwood
stai :. and these horses, some of which are
worth from S2o, 600 to $50 900 EACH live in PLATA
oox stalls about fifteen feet square, The mile
race track ON the farm is fairly good one and one
advantage that his horses have is in being able
to get green feed all the year round. l saw
some of his famous horses. One of these WAS
the Emperor ofNorfolk. which brought Baldwin
$4,000 during his racing season. and in another
place L saw the homo of Grinstead, one Of the
famous breeding stations of California. and I
watched number of yearlings and two-year-
Odds which were worth all the way from ST 900
and upward. Lucky Baldwin manages his
stables as a business enterprise and he makes
them pay. He pays little attention to his
horses himself and drives but seldom. He has
good trainers. however. and it seemed to me
that the horses were kindly treated and well
cared for.
THE WONDERFUL IRRIGATION SYSTEM.
This Baldwin ranch is perhaps the best irri-
gated piece Of property in the United States.
The geological survey sent photographers out
here last year to make pictures Of SOME of its
systems. network of pipe runs throughout
the whole estate and the water is stored in great
reservoirs down in the valley, rather than
being damned up in the CANYONS on the noun
tains- Much OF the water liz carried in cement |
lined bitches and in other places is conveyed !
from one part OF the country to the other in |
great pipes of cement. These pipes are made |
on the ranch and there are miles upon miles of |
them.
Scattered over the estate are artesian wells.
from which flow perpetually streams of water as
large around as the body of a man, and there
seems to be no lack Of irrigation facilities.
Some OF the most beautiful water works of the
ranch are about the home and there is q lake of
eight acres which winds in and out through the
Of the tropics. / have seen a num-
Der OF botanical gardens in different parts of
The world, but there are few more beautiful than
The grounds about this home of Lucky Baldwin.
1t Is one OF the prettiest places in the world,
md every tree and shrub connected with it has
MIA tad nv ia Il,
Tast estate when it was practically n desert and
ne has made 1t a land Of flowers, trees and of
orchards. Whatever may be his
record in social way. and as to his business
lealings. he is entitled to great credit for what
he has done for this part Of the state of Cali
'ornia. His work has. of course been a selfish
'ne. but he has opened up these thousands of
Icres to settlement and his monev has done
What a number of small fortunes could not have
lone
NO CHANCE FOR BEGGARs
have written many letters about rich men,
md l am told that thousands Of begging letters
re always received by the milionaires after
uch publications. When / published talk
With the millionaire W. w. Corcoran of Wash
ngton shortly before his death his mail came
n by the bushel from this country and Europe.
md nearly all the letters asked for money.
would saw just here that it will be useless for
uch people to write to Mr.. Baldwin. He is too
areful and conservative business man to give
money Unfortunately. and as far as / can
earn he has never been noted for his charities. ,
lie has not vet announced any intention of ,
ounding great university. and there is a fair
possibility that his vast fortune. like those of
most of the California nabobs. will go to the
awyers who support the claimants who spring {
Up like mushrooms after a rain. on the death of .
California millionaire. Lucky Baldwin, in
act, seems to have been more fortunate in
money making than in matrimony, for he has
een married several times and he has been ,
mixed up in two or three divorce suits. His {
resent wife Is. am told, both beautiful and ,
ccomplished. and she spends most Of her time ,
the Baldwin residence in San Francisco.
As for Lucky Baldwin. he lives part of the ]
inns at home, part Mt the hotel, and now and {
ben spends some time here. He is hard ,
Yorker and man of not many amusements. | ,
lie is said to be fond of playing poker with a
our-blt or frty-cent ante and in one of his i
ooks advertising his hotel he published an in {
erlor showing himself seated with party Of I
riends at a card table.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER. ,