Arizona republican., 1898-12-03
so5E ACTORS WHO ARE RICH.

Joseph Murphy has just bought a i farm in New Hampshire upon which ! he discovered 2 lithia spring and 2n- other of medicinal properties. His pres l ent purpose is to build Q big hotel there.
 Murphy had been fishing on the place fer some time. He found there seven i brooks well stocked with wild trout and q salmon stream 2s well
 T want to give my guests all the fishing they can desire right on the premises. said Murphy the other day, and I think I'll make money on the invest tment. Just think of it, the pro pGetcT o3 the farm moved west eighty years ago and the place hasn't been worked since. I bought $40 acres for something like $700 intend to spend about $75, eco on he hotel, and I think l can make it pay from the start. l generally make everything pay that I go into"
 This brought up the question Of Jco Murphy's wealth. He ig reputed to be one Of the richest actors in -he world. He was asked what he was actually worth.
 T can turn, he said, for about $1,85Q,GC0 if I had to turn all my be- 1ongings into cash tomorrow. The se- l | II i an I lock about me for good chances. When you travel a great deal as I do in ny profession as an actor, these chances are not so hard to find as you'd think. The basis of it all was acting, of course. but I've been good many things in my time, among others 9 h0rseshO OCT, a steved0re. and Q waiter, and often so poor that I did not know where or how to get a neal
 Joseph Jefferson is very rich. 4 man who is identified with his management is authority for the statement that Mir. Jefferson is rated at about a million and a half. He does not touch his cap ital. His annual starring tours easily pay all his expenses. He only acts for about twenty weeks in each year, and his profits are guaranteed to be not less than s2,000 a week by his sons.
 For instance, the week he WAS on the road before coming to the Fifth ay- el1Ue theater the profits were $4,000. Of this JeffcrscI took ore-half and the family the remainder. The. first week al the Fifth avenue he played to $120, 003. The Jeferscn end got 50 per cen. Of this, or $7,200.
 Lotta has disappeared completely from public view, but she continues to gather in the money Of a well spent life just the same. She is very wealthy. She kas been remarkably lucky in Ter in TGst1n snts.
 h EOS,on alone she owns property that is valued at ever Q million dollars. and this is but small portion of her holdings. LCtta may easily be put down st over two millions. Her sole relative is Jack Crabtreo, her brother.
 Maggie Mitchell is worth g-c;,. deal Of money. Not so many years ago she owned so much land in Long Branch that was reproductive, but expensive to keep, that it was feared she would go under. But she worked indefatigably and managed to hold it all. She is worth over a million dollars now.
 Francis Wilson has been q careful man w.-h his money and he has aarnsd q great deal of it in the last fifteen years Of his stage career. He is worth about $30G,Q00. He hopes to make it half 8 million before he ratires.
 Nat Goodwin has only saved money during the past four years. He earns from $50,000 to $60,000 year and man ages to pUt a good portion Of it by. His main eXtr2vagaIce is his English estate. "Ihey talk about things being chsap in Englapd.' ha was saying thG other night. Anybody who thinks sc had better try 1t. l pay eighteen diff fererc kinds Of taxes over there. Hon estly. you cant turn round without it costing you something. But 1 do like the life and the place. ."-Kansas City World.