The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-07-25
THE LATE JOHN v. MAGAY
A Difficult Matter to Estimate How
Large an Estate the Amer
lean Croesus Left.
NE HAD NUMEROUS IRONS IN the FIRE.
Mr.. Mackay Was Very Charitable In
an Un0st entatious Way, and Was
the Mainstsy Of the Catholic Or
phan Asylum at Virginia, New
Many WflI Miss Him.

San Francisco, July 22.-Richard
Dey, a close personal friend and for
mer confidential secretary of the late
John w. Mackay, says in an inter
view:
II don't suppose Mr.. Mackay him
self knew within S2o,ooo,oo0 Of what
he was worth But his business was
in such order and his arrangements
we're so carefully made that every
thing will go on just as though he
were still olive.
some Of HE Interests.
He was president of the Mackay-
Bennett Cable Co.; president of the
Postal Telegraph Co.; and president
of the Prospective Pacific CONNER
cial Cable Co.; vice-president Of the
new $1,000, 900 sugar refinery at Yon-
kers, N. Y, of which Gus Sprecklcs is
president; director of the Canadian
Pacific railway; director of the South
ern Pacific, and director of the new
proposed railroad from Havana to
Santiago, in Cuba. He was one of the
largest owners of the White Mob Cop
per Co., of Mackay, Idaho, to which
the Union Pacific built 90-milc
branch. He was interested with
Charles d. Lare in the Wild Goose
Mining Co., at Nome. He was heayi-
~ interested in the Sprague elevator
and electrical works of New York.
HE San Francisco Holdings.
In San Francisco Mr.. Mackay
owned half the Nevada block, the
Grand opera house and the big lot at
the southeast corner OF Fourth and
Market streets. He owned, together
with Flood, the Burr Burr ranch OF
about 900 acres, in San Mateo coun-
ty, the Coleman tract of about 1900
acres in and adjacent to the city OF
San Rafael, and 5000 acres of timber
land in Mendocino county He owned
several thousand acres of woodland
in Nevada between Reno and True
kee. In New York city he owned the
Postal Telegraph building, History
structure, and he was the largest
owner of the Commercial Cable Co.'S
building, a21-story structure, and the
property adjacent to it. He owned
the Territorial Enterprise, news
paper Of Virginia, New. Mr.. Mackay
owned the palatial house in which he
died in London.
Mr.. Mackay Personally.
Mr.. Mackay was a member OF the
Pacific Union club, Of San Francisco
and of the Merchants exchange. lie
was a stanch republican, but before
the civil war he was a democrat
Time and again he refused to be SEN
ator from Nevada and eschewed of
flee. In religion he was Catholic,
and two of his warmest friends were
the late Bishop Montague, who had
jurisdiction over northern Califor-
MAS mining regions and large part
Of Nevada, and Archbishop Rordan.
Many VIII Miss Him.
Mr.. Mackay for a long while virtu-
ally supported the Catholic orphan
ASYLUM and its 1870 children at Wiz
ginia. New In New York he main
tanned five or six free beds in hospl'
tails in memory Of his son, Willie. who
died half dozen years ago, at the
age Of &c. Mr. Mackay was always
} doing good quietly and giving money
} A large number Of regular pensioners
: will miss him.
A Native of Ireland.
"Mr. Mackay came 10 America from
!, ireland, as an infant, with his fath'
er, who was afterward naturalizcd
But along in 1867 James G. Fair. wh'
was Mr.. Mackay's partner, and als'
born in Ireland, couldn't remempci
whether or not the elder Fair wa
naturalized, so to make sure Fair an'
Mackay were naturalized together 4
Virginia. New, by their friend, SanuN
! w. Baldwin, who was United State
district judge. ! think Mr.. Mackal
: was originally carpenter, for whe'
J he came on the Comstock he was con
: sidered an authority on mine timber