Lucky Baldwin, proprietor of Baldwin Hotel, twice destroyed by fire in ten years, m San Francisco, and one of the early mining millionaires, whose dea+h at the age of eighty is announced, used to boast that he had made and lost more millions than any other American. He began his career as a grocer. Many of his bills were paid m apparently worthless certificates of stock in gold mines, but Baldwin kept the certificates, and after the discovery of the famous Comstock lode he sold them for £250,000. He built hotels railways, and other great enterprises, speculated heavily, and found himself a poor man at the age of seventy. Then he went to the Mondyke with a party of gold prospectors, and made £200,000 in " luckv " claims. J
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Evening Star, Issue 14035, 16 April 1909, Page 7
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128Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 14035, 16 April 1909, Page 7
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