The Daily Minnesota Pioneer

Millionaires of St. Louis.

The receipts from rents, &c., of property owned by Col. John O'Fallon is said to have reached $151,000, last year. The rents of James H. Lucas, Esq., exceeded $80,000; and that of Col. Joshua B. Brant $36,000. The sum first named represents, we suppose, the entire yearly revenue of Col. O'Fallon; the other sums, only the rents from real property. Col. Brant is besides rich in stocks and money. Mr. Lucas' landed estate—a portion of a few arpents bought by his father—hardly forty years ago for ten or twenty dollars an acre—is worth now probably three hundred thousand dollars and is rapidly rising in value. There is besides Daniel D. Page, who is immensely rich, but whose income we have not heard stated. "The profits of his banking business—conducted in St. Louis and San Francisco, under the firms of Page and Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.—are set at very high figures running from three hundred to six hundred thousand dollars a year. There is besides a little host of millionaires or men not far from millionaires—men like brothers Lindell, Rankin, the Mullanphy heirs, Walsh, &c., &c., &c., whose incomes rise from ten thousand upwards.

We have spoken now only of fixed incomes, derived from rents, stock dividends, interest on money, &c. Coming to profits in business we find among our merchants and manufacturers very large incomes. Not to mention names, there are individuals or firms transacting a business valued at from $500,000 to $1,500,000 a year. We have heard of a single house which last year sold to the amount of nineteen hundred thousand dollars, yielding a profit of little less than a quarter of a million of dollars. St. Louis Herald.