A HUGE FORTUNE
LUMBER KING’S FINANCIAL ‘ PROSPECTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright WASHINGTON, September 12. Mr Wilson, United States Secretary for Agriculture, obviously referring to Mr Frederick Weyerhaeuser, declares that on© mam in the north-west controls thirty million acres of timber, and that within a few years his fortune will be tenfold that’of Mr J. D. Rockefeller. Mr Weyerhaeuser was born in Germany in 1834, and arrived in the United States in 1852. He resided first in Pennsylvania, and in 1866 removed to Illinois, ■where he made a large fortune. He is at the head of several large lumber companies.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6314, 14 September 1907, Page 7
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