The Bonanza Kings Of California

Mr. James O. Flood, of the flrm of Flood & O'Brien, is now on a visit to this city and the Centennial, after years of absence from here, hia former residence and honce. His partner, Mr. William O'Brien, has not yet arrived, but is expected during the month. Flood, O'Brien, Fair and Mackey are the principal owners and trustees of the " Consolidated Virginia " and " California " mines, in the "Comstock Lode," near Virginia City, Nev. These mines have yielded in gold and silver each over $3,000,000 per month for many month past, and are believed to be the ricbest gold and silver mines in the world. The aggregate wealth of Flood, O'Brien, Fair and Mackey is supposedto be $100,000,000. A few years ago each of these gentlemen were tíomparatively poor. Fortune has indeed showered her richest blessings upon them, and although each has become enormously wealthy, yet each has inaintained " the even tenor of his way," putting on no aristocratie airs or "shoddy " habits, and the flrm have the entire confidence of everybody on the Pacific coast. Mackey is the miner, managing and working the mines ; Fair is the financier and business manager in Virginia City and at the mines, and Flood & O'Brien are the business menand financiers, conducting their great operations at the Bank of Nevada (which the firm oto), in San Francisco, probably the mostsubstantial and elegant banking house in America. - New York Commercial Advertiser.