The Irish standard., 1902-08-02
Magnificent Legacies to Catholic Church
Funds are Said to Figure
in His Last Will.
He Never Drank Intoxicating Liquors and
Remained True to the Faith
All Through Life.

Magazine, from which these following
extracts are made:
Il was strolling with NIackay some
years ago in Virginia City, when we
looked down a smoking cavity in the
ground that was soon lost in the dark
ness and at the mouth of which a
windlass was slowly grinding. Out
of that hole,' he said, 4 took $780,
100000 in bullion This was one of
the famous bonanza mines whose his
tory all men know. The big Bonanza,
as it was called, and as Mackay de-
scribed it to me at the time, was a
kidney" OF pocket" of crude ore,
about as high as the steeple of Trim
ity, and in area as large as the City
Hall Park Of New York. This ore,
shovelled out and reduced, gave the
stupendous yield to which Mr..
NIackay referred, and was the founda-
tion of the Bonanza fortunes. Asso-
ciated with him We're three other gen.
tlemen, whose names We're to win a
worldwide mining fame-James G..
Fair, afterward Senator from Nevada,
whose skill as mining expert had at
tracted the attention of Mackay; Will
liam O'Brien and James G. Flood.
O'Brien and Flood had come to Cali
fornia as friends in the Argonaut
days. and had. like other men, taken
their humble parts in the creation of
the Pacific states. These were "part-
ners" a term tlat Bret Harte has
pathetically explained in one of his
exquisite stories. Partners" that is
to say friends, with a friendship such
as we who live outside of the atmos-
phere Of adventure which embodied the
Argonaut days cannot understand,
and which would be but vaguely ex-
planned if we compared it to the love
of man and woman.
"Billy was my partner once," as
Mr.. Flood said to me one day in
Menlo, while we were looking at the
portrait of O'Brien: "Billy was my
partner once. He is my partner now,
will he be my partner forever a
speech which made deep impression,
coming as it did from the lips Of one
of the most resolute, self-restrained
and undemonstrative Of men. Flood
was the financial representative and
ally Of the two young miners who
We're at work on the Bonanza; !;
O'Rricn. the"partner" in the firm, be-
cause Flood could have no interest he
did not share O'Brien passed away
in Bonanza times-Flcod not many
months since in Germany. He was a
brave. independent. reserved. consci-
entious man. especially charming and
true in the higher relations of life
no better citizen. no truer friend-''in
all that goes toward the development
or manhood. the best man I have ever
KNOWN" as Mackay said to me when
the hour of irrevocable silence had
fallen. "I know only one man in the
'"iiS' thslL Sttil VI ctlh iIlc, anu lllitC Is
Mackay," this Flood said to me, and
note it as showing the strong links
which in those days bound the Bo-
nanza firm and gave it strength and
a confidence which were the basis of
it's power
Il have asked Mackay, when talk
| ing of the Bonanza outcome, whether
there were any laws the application of
| which would lead to the discovery of
other bodies of ore; whether if nature
had in a prodigal mood buried this
kidney in one of the Nevadas, she
might not have been even less Mig
gardly elsewhere. There is no law
in mining was Mackay's answer, but
the point Of the pick"
Mr.. Young gave at some length the
history Of the Commercial cable,
which he represents as the outcome
of dtsire to do something valuable
for his country. He wrote as follows:
''The cable laid and the Mackay.
Bennett system in operation-there
came war. The new company pro
posed to transmit dispatches at forty
cents word. This was a large re-
duction from the then ruling rate and