Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-06-18
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 Weyerhauser is said to be worth sl. 200. 100000. And 10 years from now, if the present rate of advance m lumber continues, he may be worth $2, 900, ,000,000.
 Weyerhauser owns 30,000 acres Of timber land--not barren, rocky, marsh ar desert land. but land covered with evergrowing timber, selected with the care of an expert who not only was seeking for forests, but for forests of sound and healthy timber.
 He acquired this land by the exer- else of foresight. The life s history of the man will best show how this fore sight has been exercised.
 Weyerhauser was born at Neider- saulheim, hamlet of southern Ger many, in 1884, which makes his age today a. A laborer on a farm till he reached his 18th birthday, he made up his mind to seek his fortune in a land where freedom played more prominent part than it did in south Germany, in those days hotbed of emancipationists.
 The great popular movement, fost cred by Heine, Weinbarg, Freiligraph and others, stirred this young Teutor and filled his mind with restless am bition. So in 1852, accompanied by his mother and sisters, he crossed tho ocean.
 Settling first in Erie, Pa, he foun( work in brewery, but migrated foui years later to Rock Island, Ill., where he got employment at $l day wagei piling slabs. Six months later saw hin manager of the plant, and in anothe year partner in the concern
 In fellow worker at the mill, F. c A. Denckman, Weyerhauser found fel low-eountryman, destined in after year to be close ally in all his schemes ant enterprises Together, in 1860 the, bought the other men out of the bus mess, and soon found themselves fre from debt and with enough capital t enable them to strike out with boldnes and confidence.
 Meanwhile Weyerhauser the travel ling partner, had visited Wisconsin am Minnesota, where he discovered land rich in timber, that could be purchases for few cents an acre. The firm be gan to buy. Additional mills were con structed and money began to roll i 5 fast.
 Since 1872 Weyerhauser has bee
 buying forests. and not once has hi
 judgment been at fault. He created tn little known and mysterious "Weyel ' hauser syndicate, acknowledged b
 the lumber world to be the most power ful factor in the trade. The MississipI
 River Boom & Logging company, 2 F which he was elected president in tn 0 early eighties, is and always has bee - the base of his known transactions.
 But there are few who know jus
 what Weyerhouser is doing or about
 do. Essentially a silent man, his seer s cy on business matters borders on ta,
 iturnity.
 Master of marvellous forests in Wi
 eonsin, Minnesota and the Great Lake V districts, Washington and the other f; a western states, he controls most of tf }, logging done on the Mississippi. H q can be said to fix ths price of logs, ti price of handling them on the river
 the price of saving them and the priC C of the finished product.
 And, in all this, he shuns publicii
 like the Grand Llama of Thibet. H
 ambition apparently is unquenehabl
 and yet the results of achievements, ;
 applied in the shape of yachts, autom Is piles and such like properties, are lac e ing.
 He lives with his wife and family
 a large, but far from palatial, house Y suburb of St. Paul His four bo, D. have all received excellent education IS but have been obliged to work in u n lumber camps and go through the mil
 as their father did before them. H
 eldest daughter, the wife of a Syracu r. clergyman, spent her life before h D. marriage in missionary work among Il !. poor of New York city. , Weyerhauser himself is very charit
 ble, and there is many story to !" around the lumberman s fire of reli 's given to men down on their luck. He d a grizzled, keen-eyed, stern-mouth' ,s man of scanty locks and close trimm'
 white beard, standing some five fe
 nine inches, and talking with a. Ge u man accent.
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