The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-09-22
IlS B. HAGAN, The
7 HORSENAN, IS DEAD
GREATEST THOROUGHBRED
LIVER IN WORLD. LEFT A
FORTUNE OF $5O,OOO,OOO.
MOTHER WAS A TURK WOMAN

nod Many Mines in This and Other
Countries That Brought Him Fab
Ions Riches. Was Native of Ken
tnckv and Died at Age of 81.
NEWPORT, R. flames B. Hag-
Of New York, capitalist and
Sa.seman. died at his summer home
,,,o tonight, aged 81 years. Mr..
F,sgin owned stock farms in Ken
.,ry and stud of racing and trot-
tSr horses said to be the largest in
~ country. He was president of
~, director in several mining COM
ganies. ...,
=. he was at Harrodsburg, KY
lanes B. Haggin became the greatest
or,ar of thoroughbred race horses
n In The world.
0ne story of his parentage relates
.,t his father, a native of Kentucky,
,.,ried Turkish woman who had
.nsracad the christian faith and had
AN from her native land to escape
,,ra,ntion. Her surname was Ben
and this became incorporated in
), tho name of the son, James Ben
4 All Haggin.
Haggin went TO California with the
e,i seekers in 1S49, but instead of
Saeging gold he began the practice
#Olaw with his brother-in-law, Lloyd
nevis The first demonstration of
wealth came when they purchased a
mammoth ranch eight miles from
Sacramento.
Succeeded at Mining.
He turned to mining. In associa-
tion with Marcus Daily and Senator
Hearst, remarkable trio of mining
spyDprts. none of whom had the bene-
Hts of a technical mining education,
Haggin rapidly became rich. Their
ODerations extended from Alaska to
1CHle Haggin has owned or con-
AnIed more than a hundred mines.
His interest in the famous Anaconda
Bold for 100000. Another mine,
IA South America, was so rich that
be built railroad 80 mise long at
cost of 100000 to carry its ore
Ia market.
4 He became in association with w.
d. Carr a great land owner and farm
b. His ranch in Kern county, Cali
&ornia, was nearly as large as the
Mate of Rhode Island. 1t was Hag-
Kin and Carr who established the
Hight of irrigation in California, car
lying the legal battle through every
kOurt in the state and out into the
political field until they had estao-
1ished the legal right of the farmer
10 the water in the rivers and lakes
Without this right San Joaquin val
icy and Southern California would at
pest be grazing land and the great
Eities now standing there would be
put visionary dreams.
For a time Haggin raised the larg-
est crop of hops in America on his
california farm and owned the larg-
est fOcks of sheep on the Pacific
boast
He began as a horse breeder in
1881 on a modest scale on the Cali
fornia ranch, which later became
famous as the Rancho del Paso and
fine breeding place of the famous race
horse, Salvador.
Famous Horses.
AS his California horse farm grew
Faggin turned back to his native
plate Kentucky and the Blue Grass
regiOn. Here he bought the "Elmen-
rorf,' breeding farm, increasing the
holdings until 1912, when he held
10000 acres and was noted as the
largeSt individual land owner in the
4 pate. He was said to have owned
fhIee times as many thoroughbred
face horses as any other man. Three
pt them, Salvador, Miss Woodford
PA Firenza, earned more tim $780,
wv IN racing prizes.
Some famous horses have passed
shTough the paddock gates of either
she California Or Kentucky farms
Aemont, the unbeaten twO-year-old;
rotectOr, winner of the junior cham
Plon' Ben Ali, winner of the Ken
gucky Derby; Kinley Mack, Ben Hol-
Epaay the long distance champion OF
Us day; Longstreet, conqueror OF
palyator, and the mighty Hamburg.
A man can't afford to be bossed
~ his Pleasures" said Haggin at.
Oout the time he gave up his horse
preceding and turned his Kentucky
esla{e into a tobacco farm, raising
gvHO0O pounds of tobacco year.
nat Is worse than being bossed by
four BUSINESS
he moralized on horse breeding
Is an industry:
II Is a fascinating occupation, and
Inefe is lot of sentiment in it
lure than in railways and copper
IllneS; but if you go in for horses
Eou VIII find you cannot do much
IL properly; and I have not enjoyed
irving two masters. 1t is a danger
uS occupation, too: for it fosters the
oISt hab1t of the American people.
mean the habit of gambling, which
Ieslhs in the majority of cases IN
|acetrack tips
Ar' Haggin's fortune has been va
lO1Sly estimated between $50, OOO,-
|VV and 500, 900, 600.