Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-04-04
n aA IfuiI MILLIONS.
Who Have Treated Immense Fer
tunes as Playthings.
Mighty P1unaes Made by Famous
Einanciers in Which Millions
of Dollars Were Made
or Lost,
The death of the famous Chicago

Spectator, "Old Hutch" brings rec
objection of his bold aud gigantic opcr-
ations in the Chicago gEaiH market.
Old Hutch died rIaei.emy a poor
man. His alnsaoce5sful Cl3art TO corner
wheat at the time whel IS attempt
and failure became the sef cts CT N
ternai,enhl discussion lefi La broken
In health ard ruined financially. Like
many another stock and CT. q faaibl er,
he had played the limit AT lost. Eut
Mr.. Huicbinson's Tremendous losses
made no apparent difference /. his bear
ing and occupation. Only fa'iag health
drove him from his daily p!aee in TIE
wheat pit. Had he won i you'd have
been equally unmoved fer there were
times when he won far unes and
showed not the slightest Evidence in
his manner OF even qualification.
When one considers he alelien or de-
lection with which the acreage man
wonld win or lose 500 Il ses;rs scarcely
credible that there are aleu- at least
n dozen men who have wea CT Lost q
hundred thousand times as rHacL with.
out, metaphor.cally "turairg a HAIR
During The recent st0e': e'.e.snce
"boom' In Wall street, i Is sad 81 ou.
thority that Mr.. John 7. Nee''efs''sl
lost $4,000 GEO in less tine Z e. II a3u'd
take him TO smoke a cigarette. Ter &c.
consecutive minutes he was losing 81
0o0.0He every minute on the fall in
Standard Oil,
After all, this was only a slight check
IN brilliant career of good fortune.
Such loss 20 years ago would have
Suined him absolutely; Today II only
means the temporary ices o. ,wo Gems
IN the dollar of his possessions. Dnr.ag
us career Mr.. Rockefellsr lincef es,s.
mates thai lie has al least * tines
made over IS oooooo On s.ugle GsG'.
To illustrate the carricas - for}ane
is interesting TO note thai Nhi.e NJ.
,ockeft Ter was losing his s;x r7iiiica-
Dung Joseph Letter was mn'dag thai
mount; although last year Mr., Letters
amous deal in wheat lost fer him al,
most twice as much
Nat Jones, who was in his days the
most daring Spectator in America
tarted life on few borrowed dollars
made several million dollars within &
ew years, aud by one rash deal on
he stock exchange lost all and died q
,eggar.
For rapid money making, however,
I Is doubtful whether any mar who las
ever lived has equaled the r cord or q
Mr.. Macdonald, OF Dawson City. Only
three years ago Macdonald reached TIE
Ga1I sV,ff
To-day he is said to own nearly so
mines, of an assessed value of SlG5,o00.-
900. This means that Macdonald dur
ing the last three years has increased
his wealth by $4,000 ,oc0 year or $685.
3S5 q week.
Few men knew better than the late
Jay Gould the rapture Of making mil-
lions in single transactions. In 1879
when he planned the feraous gold cor
ner, although disaster overlook most OF
his colleagues ,fr. Gcr'd came out OF It
the richer by e 100000.
One of the most fortunate single deals
on record was Nathan Iayer Roths-
chi,d's histor'a plunge on Tie London
stock eXchan~c just c'ter Waterloo,
The tale, thoaga old, : still thrilling:
how the astuie Jew va,;ed unit he saw
the French army fsiu.a how Ae rode
madly to brussels, aroE 10 Cstsud, was
forried across the eliannol during
storm, and reached London eiRhi hours
before any official news ot The great
Victory came. He bought literally
everything he could get in tbs way Of
stocks and shares; and when the neat
days news sent prices up like so many
rockets, he had netted an enormous
fortune.
f. h. Talcott who, until recently, WIS
a stock exchange clerk IN N2w York,
WAS among the first to aaieipase -
latest boom in stocks. eld y; ! iaes
Judgment speculated larte y i the vsr.
stocks which were most iniia;cd Il =.
boom. In three weeks he had maGe
&5,o90,00o. the amount he vowed h.
would make, and then, Ike sensible
man, left Wall street forever.
Some OF the most famous losses have
been madein wheat. Twenty years GEO
James Il. Keene made his iawoES cal'-
ner, and lost 10000 600 by il; and .
years ago Il. l.. Harper Bought up IL
O00,0 900 bushels of wheat, and in trying
TO complete his corner lost 81 900, o00.-
Cincinnati Enquirer.