Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-10
MEN WITH MILLIONS.
Who Have Treated Immense For
tunes as Playthings.
Mighty PlunGes Made by Famous
Fizaneiers in Which Millions
of Dollars We're Made
or Lost
The death of the famous Chicago

The death of the famous Chicago
Spectator, "Old Hutch brings rec
,,olleciion Of his hoid and g,ganiic opcr-
'ations fnJho Chicago srnn market
Old Hutch DISC f9fn"o,'y poor
man. lis unkGAec sgfAl ei7cr 10 cerner
wheat a. the tirne when lis a.-5np.
aud failure became The suhi,cts OF in-'
ternanat7l diScusson Jeff him Lraten
in heath and ruined fnsnc'o'l9. Like
many another stock AID pya,nearbler.
he Lad played the iimis and lost. iut
Mr. IlnteAinson's Tremendous LOSES
made 10 as9arcnt Galference r. rs bear
ing and occupation. Only 'a.'iag health
ldrc,e him from lis daiy place \ the
wheat pit Had he Won le"oo / lave
ibuen equally unmoyed, for there were
times when he @on fortunes ard
Showed not the slehtest evidence in
Js manner of even Specification.
When one considers the claliaa or de-
lection with which 4he avprn~a man
would win or lose S100 /, scrgls scarcely
credible that there are ahou, Il least
a dozen men who have wen or let q
yaurdred thousand tines as rreh with
put metaphor. catly. "turp'rg halr'
During the recent stcci. gfeharnt
''hooni" In Wall street. il is saiG o. au
thor,ty that Nj. John -. Rocksfolcl
ioSi $9,oGo 900 in less time than il w1uiG
take hin to smoke Il cigarette. For six
consecutive minutes he was losing s
,Gcooe9 every minute on the fall in
standard Oil.
After all, this was only slight check
IN = brilliant career of good fortune.
Such loss 20 years AFRO would haze
ruired him absolutely; to-day ii only
means the temporary loss of Two ct mas
IN The dollar of his possessions During
us career Mr.. Rockefeller himself cs,i
mates that he has al least SIX times
nade ever SIS 600 600 on a single deal. y
To illustrate the eaprices CT 20. tune
as interesting to note that while Nr.
tockeieller was losing his SIX mii''ona
Dung Joseph Letter was mating that
mount; although last year Mr. Letters
Amous deal in wheat lost for him al
post twice as much
Nat Jonts, who was in his Gays the
most daring Spectator in America,
'tarted life on few borrowed doirrs,
nade several million dollar within Il
ew years, and by one rash deal on
he stock exchange lost all ard died
2eggar,
For rapid money making, hcwever,
t is doubtful whe her any man Who has
yer lived has eqnalea the r"eard q a
Mr.. Macdonald, OF Dawson Ci.% Gay
three years ago Macdonald reached the
Alaskan gold fields almost fena,iass,
To-day he is said to own Eoaf,y so
mines, of an assessed value . sSls50o0,-
900. This means that NaeS onaid dur
ing the last three years has increased
his wealth by $4,000 900 GEAR or 500
1855 week
Few men knew better than the late
Jny Gould the rapture of making mil
lions in single TRANSACTIONS. In 1878,
when he Planned the famous gold cor,
ner. although disaster overlook NEST Of
his colleagues, Mr. Gould came ont of
the richer by $1,000 GOO.
One of the most fortunate single deals
On record was Nathan Nays Roths-
thild's historic plunge on The London
stock exchange just after Waterloo,
The tale. though old, is still ari...ao;
how the astute Jew waited Until he san
lhe French army flying. how he rode
,radly to Brussels, drove e Os,end was
ferried across the channel during a
storm, and reached London ci@al hours
letoIe any official news OF thc gseat
rictory came. He bought lisera.y
every thing he could get in the way of
stocks and shares. and when the neat
days news sent prices up Ike SO many
pockets, he had Melted an enormous
fortune.
T.. i. Talcott, who, until recently. was
a stock exchange clerk in New York.
was among the first TO anticipate tie
latest boom in STOCKS, ana with rar9
judgment speculated largy,Nin tie very
stocks which were nosl inilNcO i y IT,
boom In three weeks lie had mace
SS6Oo,pCo, the amount he vowed he
would make, aud then, like a sensible
man, left Wall street f5reycr.
Some Of The most fiinous losses have
been made in wheat TweGty yearsaeo
James II Eeenc made his famous cor
ner. and lost S6.000,00o by il; and 10
years ago T. l.. Harper bought UP IL
100000 bushels of wheat, and in trying
to complete his corner lost $1,000, 00o.--
Cincinnati Enquirer t+'t