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Fee for $1,000. and also ten acres near Con-
cord. Contra Costa County. for the account OF
H Gullixon to r. E. Vletch for $500
Oscar Heyman has sold 65x75 feet on
the west line of Nineteenth avenue, 100
feet north of Point LObos avenue, for
$500. He is building cottages at Chen
cry and Miguel streets, on the west line
of Twenty-third avenue near Clement
street and at the corner of Sanchez and
Twenty-seventh streets for clients.
THE ERA OF FLATS.
I. Schwartz will spend $4,000 to build
a five-story and basement apartment
house on the south line of Sutter street,
1876 feet west Of Jones street.
Andrew J. Price will build four flats
on the north line of Page street, to cost
$4,000.
NJ. Scatena Will build flats to cost
$4,000 on the south line Of Greenwich
street, east of Fillmore.
Joseph Robinson will build flats to
cost $4,000 on the northwest corner Of
Nineteenth and Noe streets.
G. III. George will place three new
flats on the north line Of Clay street.
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has been sold by Thomas F. Boyle to
DR.. A. Miles Taylor for $4,000.
To client Of G. H. Umbsen & Co.
Dan Einstein has sold the southwest
corner OF Lyon and California streets,
with a new apartment house, for 81, $50.
F. ]. McGlinchey has sold to a client
OF SDeck & Co. 27:6x120 feet on the
south line OF O'Farren street, 1876 west
OF Polk, with improvements consisting
of a two-story double house in front
and two cottages on the rear street.
The income from the improvements is
Sis month. The price is S16,500
IsidOr Lipman has bought from the
Larkin and California streets, 35x70
feet
Speck & Co have sold s7:6xs7:s feet
on the south line Of Golden Gate ave-
nue., between Octavia and Laguna
streets with two houses that rent for
s114 per month in total Mrs Jane
Lewis is the seller and w. z. Palmer
the buyer. The price was s15,50o.
Recent sales are reported by G. H.
Umbsen q Co. as follows:
For Mrs c. c. C. Amedee. improvements at
23ls Webster street east line 81 feet south
Of Jackson. and lot % :exsO feet. for $500: for
A j. Ranken. lot 5Ox93. north line of Four
teenth street, 125 west OF Sanchez for $45OO;
for A. II Bailey. north line OF Harrison street
2oc feet west OF Ninth 25x90 feet for S3T00:
OF Polk and Union streets. $500: for A j.
Ranken lot 26xi0o west line Of Sanchez
street. 50 feet north Of Fourteenth for $1,000;
for ". A Cross, improvements 1e6 Hartford
street. west line l49 north OF Nineteenth, and
lot 22x125. for $1,000: for Carl Beckman, lot
23x1l5 on the south line Of Fourteenth street
255 west OF Sanchez for S2250; for A J. Ran
ken lot 25xllS the south line Of Four
teenth street. 155 west Of Sanchez for 5000
Recent sales made by Boardman
Bros. & Co. include the following:
Property on the northwest corner OF CALI
fornia and Baker streets lot 81 :3xS0:2hs feet.
with 1o-room house. sold by W. B. Grosh
20 F. J. Young for $4,000; lot the north
line Of McAllister street ga feet west OF
Steiner, lot % -6xST feet. sold James Burke
for $500; for A. y. Bstchia lot on the south
line OF McAllister street, $50 feet west OF
Parker avenue lot % by o. feet and i'm
provements consisting Of a 7-rOom cottage,
sold TO s. II. Austin for $3.50: for L 3.
Weller, lot the south line Of Tehama
street 425 feet westerly Of Fifth. lot 81 :exs0
feet. with improvements consisting OF four
fats. sold to John b. Cosgrave for $T25o; for
the Tucker estate. the triangular lot on the
southwest corner OF Point Lobos and Thirty
ninth avenues, having frontage Point
LobOs avenue Of 35 feet and on Thirty-ninth
avenue OF "A g feet. for S415.
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The Kitchen

teed Absolutely. If II does not fulfill c
return TO you the full purchase price.
compartments for everything.
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The Dining Room

golden oak legs gracefully The exceptionally
polished oak, without carving
rhaizes the richness of grain and polish
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be kitchen furnishings include Richmond
nge. Pretty good guarantee for the rest
the furnishings. A Richmond is guaran-
Ilfn every promise we make for il, we
price. Chairs, patent kitchen table with
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-27
The Blazed
Trail q . = ;:$$:;
Copyright 1902 by Edward White
BY EWART
EDWARD
WHITE


would drag Billy Camp and his entire
crew at the ropes end, while they tried
vainly to Snub it against successfully
uprooted trees and stumps. When at
last the wanigan was moored fast for
the night-usually q mile or so below
the spot planned-Billy Camp pushed
back his battered old brown derby hat.
the badge of his office. with sigh OF
relief. To be sure. he and his men had
still to cut wood construct cooking
and camp fires. pitch tents. snip browse
and prepare supper for seventy men.
but the hard work Of the day was
over.
Along either bank. among the bush
es, on sand bars and in trees. hundreds
and hundreds of logs had been strand
ed when the main drive passed. These
logs the rear crew were engaged in re-
storing to the current
And. as a man had to be able to ride
any kind Of log in any water. to propel
that log by jumping on it, by rolling it
squirrel fashion with the feet, by punt
ing it as one would canoe. to be skill
full in pushing, prying and polling 9th
er logs from the quarter deck of the
same cranky craft; as he must be pre-
pared at any and all times to jump
waist deep into the river. to work In
ice water hours at stretch; as he was
called upon to break the most danger
Gus jams on the river, representing, as
fhev did tho accunr,lof finn whfoh tho
jam crew had loft behind them, it was
naturally considered the height of glo-
ry to belong to the rear crew. Here
were the best Of the Fighting Forty,
men with reputation az white water
birlers," men afraid Of nothing.
Every morning the crews were divid-
ed into two sections under Kerlie and
Jack Hyland. Each crew had charge
of one side of the river. Scotty Par
sons exercised general supervisory
eye over both crews. Shearer and
Thorpe Travelled back and forth the
length OF the drive, riding the logs
down stream, but taking to partly
submerged pole trail when ascending
the current On the surface of the
river in the clear wafer floated two
long. graceful boats called bateaux.
These were in charge of expert boat
men. They carried In racks great
supply of pike poles, peaveys. axes.
rope and dynamite for use in various
emergencies.
Intense rivalry existed as to which
crew sacked" the farthest down the
stream in the course Of the day There
stood upon the logs, pushing nightly
with the long pike poles. From one
end of the rear to the other shouts.
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goodly quantity of the stocks Of sys-
TENS like the New York Central. Penn
syivania, Lake Shore. Chicago and
Northwestern. st. Paul. Union Pacific,
Burlington. Rock Island. Santa Fe and
many others that he might make any
one of them his plaything IL the whim
should seize him.
Since the problem of his riches cam
not be solved FOR the secret of their
accumulation be transmitted. there re-
mains only the absorbing study of the
magician himself. Is there, then. in
the story of his life thus far lived any
marked deviation from the normal man
anything that may explain in a hui
man way and from a material stand
point why this man has been able to set
himself SO apart from his fellows?
John Dawson Rockefeller was born in
1889 at the little village of Richford.
Tioga county, N. Y. His parents were
in comfortable circumstances. owning
a farm and getting living by filling
it. MIR. Rockefeller regards this fea-
ture of his early life as important. since
it has been stated persistently that he
was born in poverty. His boyhood was
free from pronounced symp-
toms of coming pre- eminence. Accord
ing to his own statement, life was d.
vided into two grand divisions--work in
summer and school in winter. He did
not at this period manifest any tend
ency to create values where none had
previously existed. He was not even
accredited with phenomenal shreWd-
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ness. He has declared frequently that
at this time he possessed no distin-
gushing virtue except frugality.
When John was about ten years OF
age the family removed to Owego. Here
there were six OF them-entered the
academy, which was an excellent school
The future Colossus was a good stu
dent. but not as promising as was his
brother William. Both We're graduated
William with high honors. These boys
had at The academy two schoolmates
who have achieved distinction-Thom-
as C. Plat and Benjamin +. Tracy.
Both of these embryo celebrities We'd
with John d. Rockefeller in respectable
mediocrity.
most valuable business training. His
parents wisely began to teach him self
reliance at very early age. He takes
pride in relating that when he was sew
Ell his father taught him to milk Il COW.
At the age OF eight he could drive
horse az. well as man. To accustom
him to The feeling OF responsibility he
was charged with various commissions.
Among other things. he was sent to buy
cordwoc,d for the family. After he had
become older his father intrusted him
with some undertakings that were
severe test for any lad. one of them to
build house. Then he was provided
with considerable sums of money to
invest in loans and other interest bear
ing security. It was about this time
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that account. The business prospered.
Andrews was mechanical genius. He
made new processes for extracting the
oil and got better oil and more of 1t
from the crude product than any of
their competitors. This made reputa-
ton for them. Their business soon
outgrew their original plant. The
premises were then enlarged. Andrews
continued to improve the quality OF the
refined product. Their oil soon be-
came the best in the market and COM
manded the highest prices. Rockefeller
started another refinery and put his
brother William In charge Of 1t. II. NJ.
Flagler Joined the second enterprise.
and the new venture fiourished SO UNI
mistakably that house was opened in
New York.
In 1870 the business had assumed
such proportions that Mr.. Rockefeller
resolved to put into operation scheme
which he had been revolving In his
mind for years-the bringing together
under the form of a corporation of all
the Rockefeller interests. This was
done. and the original Standard Oil
company was formed. with capital of
81 900, 900. John d. Rockefeller was the
were now at least thirty competing oil
retiners on Walworth run. 1t is true
that they did not make as good oil as
the Rockefeller concern, but they sue
ceeded in offering some troublesome
The demand was so great
that they found a market for their
product at a slightly reduced rate. All
at once it was made apparent that the
were selling lower than
the lowest. Then 1t was noised about
that the new corporation was receiving
rebate fayors from the railroads This
discovery caused intense excitement
and protest from every quarter Time
made 1T clear that Mr.. Rockefeller was
not altogether responsible for the sys-
tenn OF rebate. A rate war was in
between the three great trunk
lines, and the Standard Oil was the
one to profit by the frantic struggle Of
the railroads.
From this time or Mr., Rockefellers
executive ability made possible the gu
ant corporations policy Of absorptioA
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Jared by His Son.
Iva shinrtnn Star.l

/
Il met a relative of mine-pretty
close one-that i'd never seen before
when | got back to Washington the
other day" said an army officer who
returned from a tour of duty ia the
/ Philippines recently. THE relative
+ happened to be a son of mine. He was
4 born couple of months after | made
the start for the islands three years
ago.
Il was due in Washington about T.
o'clock at night and they tackled the
dining car on somewhere around Har-
rishurs. I was hungry for United
States food. as | had been for three
years. and ] didn't seem to be able to
get enough of it.,
One of the things that made an in
slant hit it'll me. on the table was a
nice long dishful of fin elooking spring
onions. litterel up with little particles
o flee
4 simply couldn't resist them l
gobbled UP the whole plateful. resolved
that when ] met my wife ard she no.
ticed the aroma I'd simply have to
throw myself on the mercy of the
court Well my wife was at the sta
ton. of course to meet met was
pretty nigh midnight She was too
busy looking me over and commenting
upon my coat of bronze to mention the
onions even if she had noticed EN-
and she had too much to tell me about
the kid, anyway, as We sped up town
on the street cars.
The kid was asleep. of course and
when we slipped into the room and
turned up the gas, | suppose. maybe
didn't take a good long look at tho
little tyke--and maybe. of course there
wasn't lump about the size Of an old
fashioned gourd just at the point
where my front collar button presses
against my neck.
Then l grabbed the still sleeping
kid out of the bed.
He opened his eyes and surveyed
me with calm scrutiny. while / gave
him hug. Then he turned his head
away from me with a very decided ex-
preston of disapproval. This hurt his
mother and she instantly told him:
Why. Jackie that's your pa
The kid turned his head away from
he in the other direction and strug-
gled to be turned loose.
Il don't care who he is.' he replied
in the calmest accents imaginable. (
amt agoin' to let anybody blow onions
all over me-"
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Jobn d. RockefeHer the Ficbesf Man IN the tEorld;
Hos Life 70 Amacsn6 Wealth

In an incredibly short time the army Of
independent refiners was reduced &c
insignificant proportions. Cancellations
first We. the method. and II that failed
coercion. OF course fresh difficulties
arose from time to time. One OF the
most troublesome to surmount was the
discovery Of remote oil fields and the
establishment of new refineries at other
points But Mr.. Rockefeller's general
ship was sufficient to steer clear OF
these dangers. In 1873 the Standard
Oil controlled 95 per cent Of the refin-
ing interests in the country. Now an
other fierco contest arose. Its close
marked the supremacy Of oil and the
subserviency OF the railroads. The
struggle vas caused by the determi-
nation Of the state Of Pennsylvania to
prevent railroad discrimination. The
PENNSYLVANIA railroad had gone into
the refining business on Its own acs
count 1t owned pipe line and several
refineries and began reaching out to
secure trade. Mr.. Rockefeller protests
ed. The railroad was obdurate The
Standard withdrew its business from
the Pennsylvania and made use Of the
fact to obtain further rebates from the
New York Central. The oil corporation
was rich. 1t had just declared divi-
dend of so per cent. The Pennsylvania
was having trouble. and a general
strike was in progress. The Standard
all at once began to lower the price Of
oil. This was further than the railroad
company cared to go. It yielded. BY
1880 the Standard had monopoly.
Mr.. Rockefeller had one more battle
to fight before the trust which he had
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under various forms in the Bible
Nevertheless 1T lost nothing of It's force
upon the lips of the Midas of the TWEEN
tleth century. Since there is nothing to
show that Mr.. Rockefeller considers
himself poor man of any description,
the inference is that he has laid up
treasures OF greater value than money.
1t Is true that man of unlimited re-
sources may make as much of mys-
terry of himself as he chooses. He may
transform his personality into a YER
table sphinx and make his daily walk
as hidden a thing as is the lama at
Lassa. But he seldom chooses. Ii de-
tracts from the value OF his accom-
plishment to turn his face against pub
licity. 1t Is not on record that Mr..
Rockefeller has ever made veil or
ganized attempt to keep mankind in abb
solute ignorance of his efforts to provide
against the proverbial rainy day. 1t is
not unlikely that his Discrimination to
discuss his methods arises from the
magnitude of the undertaking; he
knows best of all the hopelessness of
the attempt.
1t Is a stupendous achievement for a
man to heap up treasures until looking
up from the earth where he stands, the
value of the mountain he has raised
becomes speculative even to himself.
Such enormous accum, lations are for
the most part intangible and invisible
to the human conception. Mr.. Rookie
fellers power to grasp details and hold
them may be unique. but he must have
lost the power of keeping count. Sew
eral years ago he declared upon the
witness stand that he was unable to
gauge his holdings within several mil
lion dollars. In view of the constant
tendency of these holdings to expand. it
is not likely that he has acquired since
then new capacity for keeping track
Of them.
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TT the meantime the MAIN DOuV
of the crew under Thorpe and
his foremen were briskly tum-
~ bling the logs into the current.
The men had continually to keep alert,
for at any moment they Were called
upon to exercise their best judgment
| and quickness to keep from being car
ried downward with the rush Of the
logs. Not fnfrequently frowning
sheer wall Of forty feet would hesitate
on the brink of plunge. Then Shearer
himself proved his right to the title Of
river man.
Shearer wore calks nearly an inch
in length. He had been known to ride
ten miles without shifting his feet on a
log so small that he could carry it
without difficulty For cool nerve he
was uneXcelled
II don't need you boys here any lon
ger" he said quietly
When the men had all withdrawn he
walked confidently under the front Of
the rollway, CHANGING with practiced
eye at the perpendicular wall of logs
over him. Then as man prizes jack
straws he clamped his peavey and
tugged sharply. At once the rollway
fiattcned and toppled A mighty splash,
fluff of flying foam and crushing tim
bers, and the spot on which the river
man had stood was buried beneath
twenty feet Of solid green wood. To
Thorpe it seemed that Shearer must
have been overwhelmed, but the river
man always mysteriously appeared at
one side or the other. nonchalant urg-
Ing the men to work before the logs
should have ceased to move. History
stated that Shearer had never lost a
man on the river simply and solely be-
eause he invariably took the dangerous
tasks upon himself.
In three days the rollways were bro
ken Now it became necessary to start
the rear.
For this purpose Billy Camp, the
cook, had loaded his cook stove, guam
tity of provisions and supply of bed
ding aboard a scow. AT either end were
long sweeps to direct its course. The
craft was perhaps forty feet long. but
rather narrow. in order that 1t might
pass easily through the shoot of DAM
1t was called the "wanigan."
The huge, unwieldy craft from that
moment was to become possessed of
the devil. Down the white water of
rapids it would bump, smashing obsti-
Stately against powders, against the
branches of the stream side it would
scrape, in the broad reaches it would
sulk. refusing to proceed, and when
expediency demanded it's pause it
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But there are scores OF others who
are not SO modest in their estimate OF
their ability to enumerate the respec-
tive items of this rich mans possess
sions The most radical statements
concerning this gigantic boarding are
current in the daily press Not long
ago writer with very pretty taste
for detail made this estimate: To-day
the Rockefeller income is $2.06 a sec
ond sl23.6f minute. $7.420.9S an hour,
SlIS,OS-.0S a day, Sl.246,574.50 a week
and S65.0o0.000 a year." 1t has also
been put in this ingenious way: "Of all
the money In the United States today
there is less than s3,00o.00n,000. II his
present income should continue for the
coming forty six years Mr.. Rockefeller
would possess all this What Uncle
Sam would do in such a crisis is not
even suggested.
1t is not necessary to depend on these
speculative flights in order to arrive at
some appreciation of this magnate's
sound financial standing. The record
of his returns from Standard Oil alone
for the six years beginning with 1898
and ending with 1903 is illuminatiye.
From an investment Of S40,000,000 in
that famous enterprise he received as
dividends s9s.2o0,Ooo, not taking into
account the increased value of his orig
inal investment Then, to further the
attempt at approximation, try TO re-
alize that this is only one of many en-
terprises which have been profitable.
Now recall some of those wealth pro-
ducing devices. The trusts in which he
holds pre- eminence are the great mon
ey getters of the country. Look upon
the glittering array, and ii will not only
dazzle, but enlighten-Steei, American
Cotton Oil, American Sugar company,
American Tobacco company, the cop
per trust, glucose trust. Consolidated
Gas, United State Realty and that
greatest of all banking schemes, the
City National of New York
If that is not sufficient to make evil
dent the folly OF estimating the Rookie
Teller wealth. there is more-much
more--to follow. AS a remarkable ex-
ample of diversified interests the own
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created after twenty odd years Of con-
slant oversight could rest secure In its
supremacy. Rival interests had long
dreamed of the construction of pipe
line from the producing regions to the
seaboard. In the course OF time this
gigantic scheme was accomplished. Il
was a serious matter for the Standard.
OIL could be carried by pipe to the sea-
board at cost OF Is cents. while the
lowest railroad rate was IS cents. Tho
dominant genius Of the Standard met
the crisis promptly. He organized the
National Transit company and became
absolute master of the oil traffic In
America.
The history Of the rise OF Standard
Oil, marvellous as It is. makes II possi-,
BILE to understand how the creation and
absorption of trusts became one mans
master passion.
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