The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-05

ST.. PAU. Mimi. April NO one has
been found VINO will offer an estimate of
Mr. Weyerhaeuser's wealth. IT is thought.
however. that his accumulation will ex-
coed $500 0Qp 000
In Oregon ne owned L tract OF 100000
acres OF timber land, worth at low
estimate $500. 900. In northern Idaho
he had the control OF We companies. whose
assets arr known to be s26.O0O.0o0.
Through the rest of the North and
West Mr. Weyerha euser owned the con-
trol of lnnumerable companies, worth
from 100000 to 100000 OO. Among the
companies holdings IL a stIipt 100000
acres, bought from the Northern Pacific
Railroad for 81 an acre, now worth many
times that.
He was president of the National Ger
man American Bank, st. Paul Mississippi
ever Boom Gnd Logging Company, Pot
iatch Lumber Company, Chippewa Lumber
ana Boom Company, Cloquet Lumber
Company, Tacoma Lumber Company.
Little Fails Lumber Company, Mississippi
River Logging Company, Northland Pine
Company Pine Tree Lumber Company,
Musser-Sautrey Company st. Croix Lum-
Der Company, Shell Lake Lumber Com
pahy, Northern Wisconsin Lumber Com
pany, Clipper Valley Lumber Company.
5onners Ferry Lumber Company, Superior
Timber Company. Weyerhaeuser & Rut-
!edge Lumber Company, Duluth and
Northwestern Railway Company, Mime
sofa Southern Railway Company and had
Ao4l!hRs IN various other enter. Rises in
ne West South and Southwest.
frederick Weyerhaeuser had been called
W. richest man in the world. His name
mad not been heralded forth as an ac-
cumulator OF rlch,s. Even in the eastern
pan OF the United states perhaps not one
man IN hundred could say ofhand who
ana what , eyerhaouser was, but In the
vest and especially the Northwest. his
name was byvord for wealth incalcul-
able. ihe Northwest knows its lumber
".HIs, and knew him as their chief.
lpr tWenty-three years he had been
reaching out to get control OF the great
TIMBER lands, and he had succeeded. He
"-"h.zri great company OF efficient
-.'naF"rs and he used them steadily for
h'. purpose. 1t - said that he kept his
managers ignorant If dealings he had
"in their fellows He tried to keep the
o1i-Ae Wprli ignorant also. and the re-
eur rs that very little is known Of his
" s'ual direction of his affairs.
IN" natural development Of the lumber
N'ls'y aud the opening up OF the North
vest ruub'ci MIN to acquire millions with
'I. much effort He and his partners
ao4ght Irat tracts of land for few dol
any, m'H" fortunes out of them and then
sou them nj an enormous profit he
""lii never tell just how much timber
ana hc owned, but 1t has been estimated
mat ms holdings covered 10000 square
niles, an area three times AZ large as the
'a'e OF New jersey. In money his wealth
'as never estimated with an. degree OF
tc.urdct
Mr. Wcyerhaeuser was born In Neider-
aQncim GERMANY November II, 1884,
y 'ld was the son OF John and Katie rine
Ntyerhaeuser. When ne was 10 years
nn ne came TO America and went first
Erie, Pa Four years later he went
- ltock Island, H.. and got job In
hhW mn Within six months he was
"Lhhger uf the plant
men he married Miss Elisabeth Bla-
ue' OF Erie, Ia. She too. had been born
Neldersaulheim. r. C. A. Denckman.
VINO married. Miss Bladels sister. was
close friend Of Mr.. Weyerhaeuser. Mr..
"euchman knew the mill and Mr.. Weyer-