The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-31
EASY TINES IN MEXICO.
JRIsH1ES VINO BECAME MUJTf-MIL-
LIONlIRES WITH LITTLE WORk.
How Money Was Made and Lost Not So
Very Long Ago-A Thoussnd-Doiiar
Drawer Free to Everybody In the House.
PROM n, MIRIAM Herald.


Rancho Refugio, sailing up tho Rio Grandc in
their light draught schooncrs which had crossed
the Gulf from New Orleans. They, Of course.
made a great deal Of money, and tho widow Of
ono 81 them, tho daughter Of Gen. Garcia, later
| married Don Juan CLARK. and her daughter, by
Dcvine. married Francisco Garcia Mcgucrza,
| for many years merchant on the main plaza
| in Matamoros who received with her a large for.
tune, which in some way he managed to dissipate
| falling in the early COS and dying in Monterey
| quite poor This somewhat remarka able.
| as he was a man who lived quietly and was not
| Of a speculative nature, and thus ended the last
| of the Dovne dollars
Don Juan Clark. the stcpfathcr Of this Mrs
Mcguerza, was the first employer that the great
| Monterey multi millionaire, Patrciu Milmo, had in
| this republic Clark with Pats brother Frank
| were In business together under the arm name
! VI Milnlo d Clark having two little stores, one
| In Monterey, run by Clark and the other in Sal.
| tillo under Franks management Pat came over
| from Valley Mote. County Sligo. In IS4S and
went Ia work in the store in Monterey with Clark
| His brother Frank did not want to give him any
] salary until he had learned tho language but
Clark. who was always liberal insisted that both
of them had had salary on their arrival and In.
! sisted that Pat should have one too. 50 he could
| thank Don Juan for the first money hr ever earned.
In 1851 Frank died from the effects Of hard living.
| while ON voyage home To Ireland. and Don
Juan. having married and retired in 1850.
leaving $40. 900 capital in the house the business
| was moved To San Luis Puiosi Pat AZ the clerk
turn and Haze and Mnancy ss i 'SSN cdneSHa
out though Pat managed To- save some 81, 900
from the wreck This he invested on his own
uCcnuntin Mexican goods aud went Ia Monterey
| to attend the fair there. Hale Mulloncy, Grogan
and others Of the old time Irish merchants helped
him, and when the fair closed he had made some
S.WO clcnr pfDnt ana al The lair at SaltIllu,
which followed, hc made 5000 more This
| OO, 900 10 $50 900 600 lie established himself
q, Monterey Permanently and when he married
prudrncihiiu the daughter Of the then Governor
| Santiago Nidaurcr ~ Nucyu Leon. he was worth
about $50 900 THIS was in 1886
fked irt fr mt by his own energies AZ poiii-
asn aud ldieI aud yes known as IEl rigre
| republic lie had advanced from a position.
| which his education had secured him in The Gov,
d.n, . ,s,s t" the he pTr Of srTraty and con
1 aud IN that once was the hrst To see an order
from tue then prssiden, ofAthc Republic Santa
,irrI, too p@puIsr. t" "Sh"ot Tidaufrr " When hen
he read u this he lost no time. but at raised
the standard 81 revolt aud with some $50 men
that had Hooked To him retired 10 lampazos
where hr No %ss very popnin, and getting force
ierry. thus making himself the head Of The power
| in the STATE This was in 1874 lie was lead
Ing man S I'm IN the gG'ica affairs y III" northern
in the sos, when not at that time being in az
cord With the Government he was induced to
some time. but his whereabouts were sold il il
| said, by AN American, for the sum Of SIS 900 and
9" his execution he ssr" J gold ounce Va" to zach Zach
III the soldiers who formed the firing party Uhctc
were Az mSs in AZ siI,nE then 70 NE at his face
rauch in northern Nueyn Leon which is some
fifteen miles long by three or four broad. has
an abundance Of wood, water and paslurage.
for the herds 81 cattle that roam over lis surface
while being on the top 81 Il mesa or mountain
but QUO narrow path by which the top can bc
reached, they can neither stray or b- stolen For
this property he paid the insignificant sum Of but
soOoOO lie was then very rich The follow
ing year. 1860. Gen NegTete, who had occupied
through Nidaurre's Influence. had been able
to get large quantity 81 goods in through the
He caused Milmo u orcn his safe and took from
u Sr9'So nat Iva was ,neIs t" pay his Mo"ps Don
hood and full Of dcvillIy. later wanted Mno
10 let him horsrwhp Nrgrrir, who had come
Up on ihe border and was on the American side
hut Mime took the matter very coolly. saying
that II he had not had the money Negre,e could
not have taken H., and that there was plenty
more where that had come from
During the Confederate War Milmo Opened a
branch house Ia Matamoros. building Ia rye store
there he did an enormous business. aud his
wealth increased with leaps and bounds At that
time Don luan Clark sent him cunsg nmcnt II
go bales Of cotton which at that time was worth
ntinlf III OF " Genus n pound tTum up the
Time passed, and In the rush Of business and loose
way "f doing things at that the matter passed
over question grew out 81 II, and Don Juan
never got the $50 900 so due him. Perhaps
matters might have been amcaby arranged: as
have had a number Of the old time residents who
were conversant with affairs AT tho time tell me
that they thought CLARK claim a Just one: but
Don Juan always thought more 81 fun than money.
that made Smo STR E butt xe :" one eI ="
ms Jokes The latter thought tue verses were in.
tended to lampoon him, AMI mad but little good
IA h..A l.l lHl..l
never got his money The Old time merchant aud
bon vivant, nov hard On 80 wears old, after
IN thcgoOds Of this world and il would h. grace
lui act on The part o' the Mmo heirs. out ~ their
should have been paid so many years ago
mother man Whol lost fortune about this time,
but In another way. was Don Fred OF Boyle. The
high, and O'Boylc. who wanted 10 bring 800, 900
u silver down from the head Of Navigation at
Roma somehow. had got hold Of a metallic life.
boat The river freight rates were high and the
roads infested by bandits, 80 O'Boyle determined
about half way between Roma and Rio Grands
,i,y the steamboat passed him aud whether from
,nlen, "r accident went by at full speed him,
ihr waves raised by her wheels swapping the life
twenty feet Of water OBoylc and his men walked
was In progress lie Sa nsr s ds w" suit and
Joined in the sport The mex, day he went back
Bagdad and brousH, up at heavy wy, eS sp"a ""S sub
marine diver and his armur. The bed of the river
iof long distance MAS thoroughly searched
but neither the boat nor trace Of the lost treasure
was ever found.
Another one Of the old time rich men was Jerry
Ga,vah also IN irishman, who came out in isl6
with AIMS While on his way 10 Monterey shortly
after, while in the ia, between Ramos and Martin
,hen"'crnmen, train was attacked by 500 Mexican
morse under Gen, rca, and notwithstanding
n stout Resistance made By The American soldiers
VINO conveyed IT, II was captured, \ number
OF men, hmnnK them merchant named Peter
BuIns was killed, and GGlvan with tho rest
captured and marched ON foot 10 the federal cap.
!nl lie was hilcrward taken, still ON foot 10
T"mpiro, from which place he made his way
IL New Orleans. Here he met fellow country
mhn from his native town. Cork, one John Tren-
WIN, who took him with him Ia Durango az n
crrk, under three years contract. Al the cN-
mlnton OF INA, time in 1850: he was sent I" Mata.
mQros by his employer ON his way back Ia New
Orleans While waiting for a steamer Claw
g0t HIM Job with Phelps q Whitney, an old
nme house and shortly after he was admutcd 10
pnt'neTship and later started in business Tor him
seii ms advance was most randi and i'm lR55
h. had n large and well stocked business place nj
hiSoTnin alAree house belonging ,oa Mr. Bcldin
IN 1907 his house accidcnily caught t.rc from |
candle let standing on barrel, which was over
turned by IN" rats, bclated ciiizrn going 10 |
Miller n saloon n mid mir IN far "a pig 10. =, IA.