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James Cair Flood (1826-1888) was an American businessman who formed a business partnership with fellow Irishmen James Graham Fair, William S. O'Brien, and John William Mackay, the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company. For the game see 1826 (board game. Year 1826 ( MDCCCXXVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a James Graham Fair ( December 3, 1831 &ndash San Francisco, December 28, 1894) was the overnight millionaire part-owner of the William S O'Brien (1825-1878 was an American businessman who formed a business partnership with fellow Irishmen James Graham Fair, James C John William Mackay ( November 28, 1831 - July 20, 1902) was an American capitalist, born in Dublin Ireland. The four dealt in mining stocks and operated silver mines on the Comstock Lode, and in 1873 discovered the great orebody known as the "Big Bonanza" in the Consolidated Virginia and California Mine, an orebody more than 1,200 feet deep, which yielded in March of that year as much as $632 per ton, and in 1877 nearly $19,000,000 altogether. The Comstock Lode was the first major US deposit of Silver Ore, discovered under what is now Virginia City Nevada on the eastern slope of Mt Year 1873 ( MDCCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The four-way partnership, although formally called "Flood and O'Brien," was more commonly known as the Bonanza firm. Together they also established the Bank of Nevada in San Francisco, California. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city

He is considered to have been one of the 100 wealthiest Americans, having left an enormous fortune. [1]


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