The Illusion of Millionaire Fortunes

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 3, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 5.

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The Illusion of Millionaire Fortunes

The estate of Charles T. Yerkes, which was estimated at twelve million when he died in 1905, we are now told, would shrink to five and one-half million if his debts were paid. And this might be the case with a great many of the fortunes of the multimillionaires. Sometimes a great deal of this so-called wealth is represented in overvalued stock.