Show CLAM ALY FEUD Stories of Its Origin Clark and flail Daly r Alone Know Knew the Cause Twenty years ago William A Clark Clan t and Marcus Daly were partners in the mining business in Montana says a writer Jn Magazine The two had bad made their fortunes in the rough con conditions of the early years in that state and had been together perhaps by peculiar sympathy which the world over unites men ot qi natural bigness Daly was the agent and the practical urine mine lo locator locater cater cator and operator for tire the rich syndicate composed of J 3 B Haggin Lloyd Tens Tevis em am George Hearst afterward senator Clark was a merchant and a banker who had be been n successful In most inest of his open oper operations attens and who had money to spare to invest ip in mines Clarks capital and Da lys mining acumen to form a of unusual early mining developments in ix involved the movements at al mt t every Important turn During Duning the duration of tie the partnership tire the interests of the two mon men extended widely participating eventually in every ev aspect of the of the community Their capital added in the location and improvement of new mine sites and unU hence of new towns They had to do with the construction of the They built smelters and employed hundreds of men The loaned money to others They ac acquired landed as well as mineral proper properties ties They established and conducted banks built office structures operated street railways and of went into politics By the time thus the quarrel arose between thorn them there was wan scarcely a phase of the states activities in which they were not either jointly or individually concerned No one knows except Clark and Daly themselves when this iMs close association began to break And no one knows why Thea MendS friends of Clark do not ac knowledge that there was any outward evidence of until oa en late as 1833 The friends of Daly date it back to the latter part of the seventies Daly is an Irishman fond of power fretful when opposes Is an Am Ann American not accustomed to lose ices chances i or to be bs beaten He had entered Montana with th an ox te n and no nc nion and he lie had bad earned lied bad come co oy hi hard knocks and superior Deir on the other while equally shrewd had made bis MS was by acting for others Originally a mining mInU he had become a locator boater for others nd through a remarkable acuteness of meat hd been able to command an inter interest est eel in the die valuable properties which bo ho discovered Through the of these interests he had bad laid isid the foundations of ot a fortune but by choice as w well H as asby asby by Inducement he had bad remained with the syndicates and ultimately had become their manager aad azad representative Ha lie acted In this capacity aH aM during the private vale vate partnership with Clark and in what whatever whatever ever he did wi Wb dark th the syndicates in interests int t appear to have banS mingled Where there were town improvements to be made mad Daly rendered assistance on behalf of the company Where there were to torun torun run he dictated the votes of the employ employees sea ees of the company la In the narratives 4 told of the genesis genes of the quarrel there is little separation ot of Daly as representative tire tive of The syndicate from Daly as indi individual vidual According to one story Daly on be behalf behalf half of te the syndicate was seeking to ac acquire quire an important copper nuns when Clark proceeding upon inside knowledge derived from close Daly bought the property before Daly could conic dose close Another story is that Daly stOL acting as representative e of the tho syndicate enter eater entered ed upon an extended series of mm o In the tho town of Anaconda and was engaged encased m In acquiring certain rights when saw a end and bald the tha syndicate up for a Ca big profit Daly had bad acquired about of the tha neo essary for some to 00 when Claw Clara slipped In and the tha re ro remaining eighth and then Daly 26 for It Tie The made mods Dalys hesitate for hears When they returned wIth Clark asked When they hesitated another hours and then rotu returned n d with the Clark asked more to advance the price with each hesi hi tation of the purchasers until ultimately he received a Still another narrative Is that while tark and Daly were associated in the ownership of a large tract of land lanel Daly Dy ordered some improvements during the tho absence of Clark Clark upon his return disapproved of 1 tire the improvements to bear tb expense and compelled Daly to buy bus him bin out Tine The price he lie Used fined was I regarded by Daly aa as a deliberate cater extor tion In the absence of authoritative explanation explanation nation t is necessary to take the quarrel for granted as the j people eople of Montana have done ilone i |