The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-25

gardens of Eden by landscape garden
ers; the dinners that cost thousands OF
dollars, the wagers of a fortune on q
single turn of a card or a simple
chance, the handsful of golden eagles
thrown at random into a crowd OF
street urchins, the baths in champagne
the men who lighted cigars with SO
greenbacks. the houses that had solid
silver door knobs and golden tipped
stair rods, and the harnesses of solid
gold mountings, are some of the whim-
steal extravagances that have been the
feature of stories told the world over
TO show how California Croesuses spend
their money.
There is, however, another class of
very rich men on this coast. No one
knows better the science of saving
! every dime than they, and no one puts
| the knowledge into more rigid practice.
When the fasteners come to the
Pacific coast and have cheaply
dressed. almost ragged, unkempt man
pointed out as a millionaire, and have
little whitewashed cabins shown as the
| abodes of men who own many thou
sands of acres of land, or fiocks of
sheep and herds of cattle on every
hillside, they are interested.
One of the wealthiest men in Califor-
MIA is Henry Miller. His possessions
J are NdIlOuSly Valued ITOH SJ,UUU,OUU 10
$4,000, 600. He is the surviving part
ner of the greatest cattle firm in the
world, that of Miller & Lux. Charles
W. Lux died ten years ago, and left
| an estate of $7,e00.00 Today Miller is,
without doubt, the biggest cattle king
of all. He owns several herds of $4,000
cattle each, a score of herds of 5000 or
1900 cattle, and many herds of 1000
and 5000 cattle, besides 1900 square
p1ilaS-pot arroc-0f land in California
Oregon, Nevada and Arizona, on which
these cattle, besides scores of droves of
hogs and fiocks of sheep, Craze.
In recent legal proceedings it came
out that in 1885 and 1896 the annual net
income of Mr. Miller was more than
$500, 600. Yet he lives the life of the
poorest paid most ignorant vaquero or
cowboy on his vast ranges. He is GA
years old and came to California from
Germany in 1854 From the day he
landed at Monterey, walked across the
foothills and got a job as sausage
maker for a Mexican butcher, he has
never had a day OF rest. While his
partner used to live in a mansion in
San Francisco and do business in a
royalty appointed counting room, Mil
Ter was out on some the firms vast
ranges. He still adheres to this rough,
hard life. His accountants go out from
San Francisco several times a week
with statements of the business and to
inform him of orders for cattle in San
Francisco. Kansas City or Chicago.
MILLER FIGHTS WITH THE COW
BOYS.
He asks nothing better for himself /
than to live among his men on his |
ranges, to fight with them when he sees
fit, to swear at them when they will |
stand it, to live on tough, fresh killed !
beef and bacon, and ''slum- gullion'
coffee, to drink warm alkali water, and |
to have no more good out of his mill
lions than the commonest $50 a month
cowboy. He views extravaganza as
crime. His vaqueroS tell of him yell
ing with anger when a tender young
bullock had been slaughtered by the
manager of one of his ranges in honor
of his visit. Yet he is neither miser
nor mean man. His one all-consum-
ing passion is to get more land and
to increase his herds. He admires a
man who will work and make money
20 hours a day, and he has been full
filing his ideal all his life. He works
seven days a week. No man on his
ranges knows any detail of the bust
ness better than he.
One story told of Miller gained him
great popularity amor G the vaqueros
about Gilroy. Once whcn driving over
Pacheco pass he was stopped by
Mexican highwayman. He promptly
handed him all tn money he had in his
5000. AS the man turned
away with the gold Miller called after
him:
Say. you know me. My names Mil
er. I've got long drive to make, and
I've given you all the money 1 had
Can't YOU let me have S20?"
The highwayman handed Miller $40 :
If the money he had taken from him !
md each passed on his way. {
Several months later Miller saw the
same man in a saloon in Gilroy. He
vent up to him, took $40 from his t
.arelessly: {
Here's the money I owe you" I
you don't owe me anything said a
he Mexican, fearful of arrest f
"Of course do: here, take it, h
Nothing to me- insisted the Mex a
can. g
do YOU remember me borrowing r
20 from you in the pass few months f
go?' f
Don't remember anything about it" a
aid the Mexican, and Miller kept his f
honey. [,
So this Monte Cristo of the west is d
OF without humor and the cattle I,
orders liked his grim satire. h
SAVES HIS MONEY. T
A little. dried-up man, with deep {
ct black eyes. long white hair and il
habby clothes, may be seen sitting C
bout the hotel offices, barber shops, h
aloons and other public places where j
lere are free chairs and newspapers h
Bakersfield, in the San Joaquin a
alley. any day He has not been out a
{ the town in 20 years and it is not Il
kelly he ever will go. He is Daniel "
Waters and he is worth between 81
.OOO. 600 and $1,000 00 He came to "
alifornia in the gold excitement in W
lie early SOS and made fortune of f
(, 0O0 He was happy, jovial young q
ian then, fresh from Yale college. He p
1ent money freely and went back to n
ew York on a visit In two years he d
oney gone. This time he found il no 81
niger possible for man to pick UP Ia
fortune in the gold diggings. He 81
ecanle a lawyer and had a bare sub
stence for a decade. That was when #
: became a money saver and learned Ii
Iactly how many cents there are in a
dollar When ne was 50 years old Ell
discovered quicksilver in Santa hi
lara county. That brought him sew b'
al hundred thousand dollars. He Ia
vested in lands in the San Joaquin
llley and increased his wealth ten
mes over in the course of 20 years.
He has a wife and three children RI
Id many grandchildren. His sons and 10
lughter worked as laborers after e
ey became II, and have never had a - -
liar of aid from their father. Mrs. :.
alters did washing for her neigh ~ ~
rs until q few years ago in order TO -
m mone- All the time her hus -
nd was buying land and mortgages ~