Show THE WEALTH OF THE CLARK BABY no babe was ever born in montana with such brilliant prospects before it as the lit tle tie stranger who came to the home of mr and mrs W A dark clark jr on monday the grandson of senator W A dark clark this baby is an heir in the direct line of multimillionaire multi millionaire his only grandson and prospectively the heir to the greater portion of his enormous wealth the crown prince of germany will inherit no more wealth than will this young ster as yet a scarlet mite of humanity 1 in this far western city the czar of russia might be willing to endow a male heir with an amount approximately the same as the dark clark heirs prospective fortune provided he had bad a male heir but no other european ruler could even the present prince of wales nor even his royal father could give an heir such fabulous wealth as this little child ultimately will control this butte baby born on the first day of the midwinter month in the cold and the smelter smoke of butte if events take their natural course will direct a power as great as that of J pierpont pont morgan of today and greater than that of the king of england if the dark clark fortune multiplies at the same rate a as the other great fortunes of the present generation have grown the one which will descend to the dark clark grandson will be perhaps the greatest in the world think of it for a moment what heirs are there P to divide the dark clark wealth when in the ordinary course of events the senator passes from this world there are two sons and two daughters one of the daughters has a daughter but william A jr is the only one who has a son according to the rule of primogeniture providing noson no son is born to charles dark clark the 3 day old dark clark ultimately will become the head of the family no man knows the exact wealth of senator dark clark it is doubtful if he knows himself various estimates place it anywhere from to most of it is in property which is increasing in value by leaps and bounds the united verde copper mine for instance is a property the possibilities of which are amazing when put into dollars and cents such vast wealth as that held by senator dark clark increases with wonderful rapidity allowing him say a year for board and clothes pictures and other minor investments his fortune doubtless will net him outside of these expenses easily 10 per cent estimating the fortune at this gives him a increase every year when this little butte boy is 25 years old the dark clark fortune foi tune held by the present head of the house 4 will thus bo be there is no other private fortune in the world present or prospective of the size si Z e of the dark clark fortune today or as it will be twenty five years hence that is to be divided among so few heirs of the blood only six descendants of senator dark clark are alive today it is natural to suppose that the grandson will secure the bulk of the fortune especially it if the childs father names him W A dark clark III the atlantic cables grow busy every few months with tales of the birth of prince lings who have great fortunes before them but what prince of the blood will exceed buttes new dark clark baby in point of private fortune and actual power |