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 *ings at a value of $10,000,000. The same amount may represent Mr. Gould's holdings of the securities of the Texas and Pacific railway. It is difficult to say how largely he was interested in Union Pacific securities, but he was a holder of about $2,000,000 collateral trust notes of the Union Pacific, taken as security for money advances.

Mr. Gould was never known as a large investor in government bonds. He is said, though, to have subscribed liberally to the debenture bonds of the New York Central. A mass of miscellaneous securities must be counted in the aggregate, including bonds of coal properties on the line of the Missouri Pacific, southern ventures and a host of bonds and stocks of varying degrees of worth and promise.

The possessions of Mr. Gould at Irvington-on-*the-Hudson and his home in this city may be estimated at $1,000,000. Far more than this amount has been invested in the two properties, the decorations of the Fifth avenue house and the extensive conservatory alone commanding the expenditure of important sums. It is also said that Mr. Gould owns considerable real estate in the West. He is understood to have considerable property in St. Louis which is productive, and he is believed to have made purchases of improved property in Chicago after the World's Fair enterprise became assured of success. But much of his real estate investments in Texas and other parts of the Southwest, and in Southern California, is of a nature that does not yield immediate returns.