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Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 28, 15 December 1883, Page 5

Mrt'JAy GoutD/frlta "natf i\\#b bgeit'extahed >W>ih&XJW;ed States 1 Senate Contihrtfefe on' LrfbouKahd' Edubattoh^ &iv&-the i m ari'Shtetf- 1 (jstihg'Vcl&.iMof 'his 'eaMy 'ttfe'aftci of the' prigin of his enormous fortune. Hi& f&'ther 1 * 1 wdß & sitiall 'iW&bt'WAW the future' Milliondire, I "Who 1 possessed neither shbes nbr'stiibk 1 -' •^itfb'at the the Cows: ' At'the*' ' age of' f burtefcin ho "exchanged v 'tHis occutiatidrt fbtthe 'Me' '6Brfgenl l dl J on^;bf f ook^'fcfr' a '-blaCksrAftw, "^ho 1 him no d<jhor"reinune"riifci.on '^Hdn 1 hi^'-bdara. 1 ! 'He tna'tt4ged''to attfelid' a' night Sehddi;' whei'e he pidked up' soWite" in/^heVnatfc^ and' 'k'oriib ndtibm of '6h'gineering? ! foi 1 Which 'he had' '^LiyayB f a marked tU&iti. "Ite ro&> at tljf^6 evefy mofnirig and : W6i*kdd'a ; t l n;l$ I 'faVdUi-ite 1 1 till ' six? ' H^ 'nfexfc ft 'place: 'as'te- • sietant in a "country ' « atdre ', a^ $2ioi a month; 'and some timd'amtwdrd's he 'left' ih'esfco!r t^foi >! '.adesk in-a''sitrVeyor's offideJ; His employer having failed', hiscleVk started Ori hi^'own accouh't i ,ahd M the first money 1 hfeo'drnedlWas a dtfloVwhioh' a farmer 1 -feave him for making "dVubbri-hlarli to tell • the' ■ time ■ s by . ', • He 7 executed seWdl joddl riiapsih.the coui-fee 6f "thai slimmer;' ani's'old-thecopyr^hfc of tlierii for sOo'd6te. In tl>e next he -made 'simiHat ;tt(apff ' of , Albany- and Delaware; ahdrealis'ed by their' feal6 the consideraJble sum? of '5,000 dols: This sufficed 'to purchase d share in' 'a lat^e tarineryi of which he 'eventually became gold projilietor, ( "and ( 'which he X 'then sold, realising a hand^bme profit' ''bri the transaction ", The' p'dhic Of "1857 occurring "at this period in his' 'career,, the' Rutland 1 and Washington 1 'rdilroad' ■&>; Troy -Was offering its first mortgage bondsf at ten ' cents ' to the tlolldr.' Mr Gould bought them all, principally on credit, and' thus became the owner of a line of railway sixty miles long. Having guccessfuHy' developed the business of the road, it fccfcm began to' pay dividends, and he, was able to 'sell out dt an immense profit. The Clove* land and Pittsburgh and the Union Pacific were his next' ventures. ' He 1 fared equally well with them ;' arid from that time to the" present his career has' been one of almost' uniform and unbroken success. ' '