The Monticellonian., 1902-07-25
IRE LA1E JOHN W. MACkAY
A Difficult Matter to Estimate How Large an Estate the Amer
 ican Croesus Left.
HE HAD NUMEROUS IRONS IN THE FIRE.
MT. Mackay Was Very Charitable in an UnOstentatious Way, and Was the Mninstay of the Catholic Or phan Asylum at Virginia, NeS.- Many Will 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:
 q don't suppose MT. Maekay him. self knew within $20,000,000 of what he was worth. But his business was in such order and his arrangements were so carefully made that every thing will go on just as though he were still alive.
 Some of His 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 $7,000,000 sugar refinery at on kers, N. l., of which Gus Sprecllles 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 Maekay, Idaho, to which the Union Pacific built 90-mile branch. He was interested with Charles D. Lane in the Wild Goose Mining Co, at Nome. He was heavi- ly interested in the Sprague elevator and electrical works of New York.
 His San Francisco Holdings.
 'In San Francisco MT. 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 Buri Burr ranch Of about 1000 acres, in San Mateo coun- ty, the Coleman tract of about 1,500 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, 16-story structure, and he was the largest owner of the Commercial Cable Co.'S building, History structure, and the property adjacent to it. He owned the Territorial Enterprise, news paper of Virginia. Nev. Mr. Mackay owned the palatiai house in which he died in London.
 Mir. Mackay Personally.
 "Mr Maekay was a member of the Pacific Union club, of San Francisco, and of the Merchants exchange. He was staneh republican, but before the civil war he was a democrat. Time and again he refused to be sen ator from Nevada and esehewed of flee. In religion he was Catholic, and two of his warmest friends were the late Bishop Montague, who had jurisdiction over northren Califor- nia's mining regions and large part of Nevada. and Archbishop Riordan.
 Many Will Miss Him.
 MT. Mackay for long while virtu ally supported the Catholic orphan asylum and it's 130 children at Nir- ginia, New In New York he main tained five or six free beds in hospi- tals in memory of his son, Willie, who died half a dozen years ago, at the age of 26 Mr. Mackay was always doing good quietly and giving money. A large number of regular pensioners will miss him.
 A Native of Ireland.
 "Mr Maekay came to America from Ireland, as an infant, with his fath- CT, who was afterward naturalized. But along in 1867 James G. Fair, who was Mr. Mackays partner, and also born in Ireland, couldn't remember whether or not the elder Fair was naturalized, so to make sure Fair and Mackay were naturalized together in Virginia, New, by their friend, Sandy w. Baldwin, who was United States district judge. l think Mir. Mackay was originally a carpenter, for when he came on the Comstock he was con sidered an authority on mine timber ing"