A FORTUNE MISSED
—. — ♦ An interesting instance of how an immense fortune was narrowly missed, was related by Sir Donald Mann, the Canadian railway magnate, in a Press interview. '.'One summer's day in 1893," he said, "I stood on the banks of the St. Mary's River, in the Kcfotenays, when a tall, handsome, rodheaded prospector came along and offered to sell mo a mine, whifth he had just discovered, for 10,000 dollars (£2000). He was one of the Sulivan clan from Bantry Bay, Ireland, and had come to the Kootenays that year chasing fortune. And he found it 20 miles west of : where-I met him. There was not a railway within hundreds of miles, and little prospects of one, so I did not buy.' To-day that mine is earning net profitß of 12,000,000 dollars (£2,400,000) a year for the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 57, 8 March 1928, Page 19
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143A FORTUNE MISSED Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 57, 8 March 1928, Page 19
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