Unmitigated Millionaires

Wlien one reflects tipon the immense wealth now possessed by the four principal owners of the incalculably rieh boniiczti developed in the Consolidated Virginia ad California mines, at the north end of the Comstock, the mind ia daze-J with wonder, and figures after figures are added to the already long array until they shade off irtto the raisty reaira of tho fabulous and incomprehensible. The wealth of the Rothschilds, the Astors, and other rich men noted in history and known of at the present time conld be counted, calculated, and defined by regular estimates based upon proper financial grounds and established principies. But in this instance, when we get to counting by the hundred millions, and seo hundreds of millions beyond, with very possible biilions in prospeotive, and no defined or understood or even guessed-at liniite to tho great bonanza or source of this immense wealth, all figuring and calculation is lost in a glittering, golden-hued and silver-starrod firmament or boundless wilderness of incomprehensible affluence, the niaterialization of a vast golden dream, compared with which all others pale into utter insignificance. Croesus, Aladdin, Monte Christo, and Sinbad the Sailor wero mere paupers as compared with Mackay,