Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-15
slitutIous having capital Of ts.ggg
Dos S02, as follows.

ooSSo as follows, ''-''
Railroads ,",.", ,,,u...f352l, 523 o..
Industrial companies ..... 1886, s12, 9OC
Banks ANA trust companies lyl,0G2, 80.
safe deposit companlesu.. 60g.53l
Telegraph and telephone
companies u,,,. .a... lS2.NiO. OOf
| Insurance companies ..,. 5000 Ol
MINING companies .t... ig5. 900. 00l
power companies ,..... llO,1 ZOO
Traction and tmnsporta-
! tloh companies .n..,,.,. 1863, ESQ., 00l
! Navigation companies...., N.Al7BO0
| Iotul .u,,... monumental ,239 00S, S0Z
! IN spite Of these figures. John D..
| Rockefeller is shown as director I'm
only four corporations. AT the same
! time he Us suspected Of dominating
! mere than 1850 corporations. biz and lit
Tie. he controls $4,000 miles Of pipe
line, controls 70 per cent OF the crude
petroleum product Of the country, owns
, every tank car In the United States.
has zoo vessels engaged IN tr0nspOrta-
ton. owns 5000 delivery wagons ana
hires an army Of $4,000 men, Incidental
to his own success he is said 10 have
made az least 100 men associated with
him millionalres. As 70 the number
Of men he has ruined. count presume
bly, has not been Kept
MEMORY POOR FORESIGHT MAR.
Vicious.
But this man. whom Jay Gould dps-
cribed as possessing the finest organic
Ing brain Of this generation" was once
described by am unexpected caller In
his office as wearing a s. sack coat
ana the air Of ilO clerk In a corner
grocery This same man, described by
great iinancier as unable TO remember
more than six years back aud yet ca
pablo OF seeing 30 years ahead" also
has been pictured by Judge Of clothes
as a man whom nobody IN New York
could think Of asking for the address of
his tailor
This man who plavs the violin with
feeling and skill. las been remembered
by Wall street ,inCe the episode I'm
1908 when he unlorsed the brilliant
Morgan and squeezed billion dollars
In water from the stock markets wall
street, perhaps cannot pretend 10 un-
derstand this man. who gives away am
average Of $4,000 year ana employs
secretary at $4,000 salary 10 see
that the gifts are we'll placed and wor-
thily II may have smiled when as a
thank offering at his escape from the
fire that destroyed his home I'm Pecan
tico Hllls two years ago he gave $780,
600 IN a lump to the Teachers college
MILLION A YEAR FOR MANAGER.
But this man who has done these
things and Is still doing them. either
regards the tasks as onerous to a stu
pendous degree or out of his egotIsm
looks upon them as possible only TO
Rockefeller A few years ago he came
out with an offer. which Is still stand
ing Of a salary Of 100000 a year to
the man who will manage only the af-
fairs OF the Standard oil company
and presumably shoulder the onus of
the task, But there We're no applicants
under the terms. I'm the past some
hard names and some hideous charges !
have been directed at the head Of the !
Standard OIL company
In February, q year ago, something |
new IN the accredited methods of |
the Standard OH magnate was |
uncovered In Washington, when |
certain senators blazed up against |
the telegram signed Rockefeller and de-
that trust legislation bn |
stopped The Standard Oh counsel. |
In person in Washington, was
snubbed and turned down. II could
not have been pleasant work, even
million dollar manager must have gone
far "a earn his salary In such an ex-
pose,
LITTLE OUT OF LIFE.
What does Rockefeller get out OF |