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Show Gossip About Marcus Daly, the Montana Millionaire. Oafy's HrU CaKTornhJob-lh, Carer intheComilock-lloo lb IlmgH ' Which lltlh, ifti Ho,voo,ax In r,n Uan-Somelhlng About ' ?"' 111, 0 Montana and rmn," andllo-o U thnage, ''fj'jf'j' Tammany and lilt nofits-MarcutValy on thru Training '"'' lreealng-7he Kacer Vtnut the A olltr-Somcthng About forth i Horn, and Lett Which Netted Daly ps.o" Hidot cVrrfihM tt IH Nmyi. Anaconda, Mont., April as, 1S9J. lly all odd llio most strlklnc character In Montana today Is Marcus Dal), the rimed Anaconda millionaire, tlie ecle-liMtcd ecle-liMtcd hone owner nnd the chief of the copper king ol the United Males. No 0110 know how much Daly Is worth. He ownes n hank or o, nnd electric railroad, n big hotel, something like a million dollin' north of bona nnd lands, nnd he Ins, I nm told, a one-fourth one-fourth Interest In the Amconda copper mines, which arc the blgKest a"1' ua' paying of any In the known universe. The army of employes vv ho w ork under him is as large In number as that u lilch Xcnophon led In the fimous retreat described In the Anabasis, and I1I1 pty roll runs ln(o the tens of thousands of dollirs per day. Still, he came to the United States a poor boy, nnd when he hnded at San I ranclsco at the age of thirteen he had not a cent In his pocket, nnd he trotted up and down the board walks for three or four da) s seeking a job. He looked In vain, until at about the end sf the fourth diy he siw an old farmer In a wagon driving through the streets. He stopped him and said, "I laven't ) ou got something out at your phce that I en do?" ' Welt, I don't know, oung nun. What can you do!" "I can do an thing," replied young Dil). "Can you dig taters?" "Vcs, I can." said Daly, and the man thereupon told him to L.ct into the uagon and he took the boy home to his rinch. This was some place east of Otkland and Daly dug potatoes for the old rancher for three weeks Ho said it neirly broke his hack, but he stuck to It until he got a little munc),and then, boy as he was, he started for the mines. He grew up surrounded by gold and silver and he soon.eievelopcu n wonderful wonder-ful ability as an expert miner. When the Coimtock lode was discovered he was InNevidi. Jlo bad by this time become acquainted with Mackc). 1 lood and O'Urien and they made mm the ibrcmiiiof that mine After working here for some lime he drifted to Salt I.akc nnd was engaged there by the Walker brothers, who have, you know, owned somo oi the most famous mines of our hlstot). He served them as a mining expert, and It was about sixteen year ngo that ho was sent by them from tltih lo Montani to expert the "Alllce" mine. MOW MARCUS DALY BOUCIIT A MINK. The Alllce mine Is one of the most famous In Montani ll lias produced millions of dollars' worth of gold and slUcr. Iu output tor 1891 was nearly a million and It Is still worked at a grcit profit. At Ilia time tint the Walker brothers thought of bu)lng It the stock had fallen very low. They knew that it would (lie at once If it was known that they wanted It and Daly was sent here lo find out all about It. Ho came to Uulte city as a miner He was dressed In rough clothes and pretended tint he was dead broke and wanted vrork. He went to the old Continental hotel nnd pretended to look for work for a week, liut filled to get it, and told thclindlord that he had no money to pay his board This seemed stringe to tho landlord, ns nil miners were well fialdnndas there wis a grcit demand or cxtri hands. The lindlord Slid, "well I will see if I can t get you n Job ' He then went down to the Lexington mine and got a plico for Dil), and tuld him about it. Mr. Daly said, "I am n little particular about my work, but I will go down and took at the Job. ' He did so nnd came bid. tho same diy. and Slid that the mine was to wet, and that his lungs were not strong he feared to go to work In It He then loifed around for another week, nnd the lindlord, lind-lord, getting morn desperate still about the payment of his board, went out and found him another Job. Daly looked nt it, worked in It for two days nnd then cime back and said that the mine was not timbered properly, nnd tint he would not work it Now the board bill for three weeks was due, and the landlord land-lord got hot He went up lo Walker-ville Walker-ville and got Daly n lob in the Alllce mine. He told the walker llle owners that he had a man loifing around nt his place for whom ho wintcd work long enough to pay his three weeks' board bill. They give him the job and he came bick to Dal) He swore at Dily upon his return, telling him he was too d n partlculir about his woil. and tood ncny about his citing Ho said that he hid got him another Job and thathew mtcd him to like it and stick to It As Dily hciril hlin say that the work was In the Alllce mine I1I1 heart mutt have lumped, but there wis not n chmge in ids features and ho only sild "Well, I will go and look at it " It wis the opportunity he had wilted for nnd he took I1I9 place as an ordinary miner In the Allicc He workid for three weeks, inspecting the properly as hi duK and mined and it the end of this time he threw tin the Job nnd left llutle City, Six wicks liter he came to tho surface as nuingcr of the property The Walkers, at his ad Ice, bought the mine and they put him at its head millions is corrcK. Idle Mr. Dily wasrmmglngth! he was looking about for other mine ou his own account, nnd he Invested 11 a number of silver mines I risked him jesterdly whether he hid ever made iiny money In silver mines nnd he rcpll cd tint he had, but ho did not give me the figures Among the mfiics he bought was the Anacondi mine, for which he pild, 1 think 30,000 It was begun as a silver mine, but after runing down 130 feet the leid developed Into one of the biggest copper elns on record. Up to tins time nutmuchnttcn lion wis paid to copper, but Dily organ ized a compiny and went to work In this mine The compiny consisted of I. 11 Hoggin of Californli, the late Senator George Hearst. Mircus Daly and one or two others, and It bis mater hill added to tnc millions of these well known millionaires I can't give you any adequate Idea of the enormous extent of these great mines Two thousand miners are cmplo)cd In tho mines diy and night, and within the list ten )eirs the enormous sum of f 40,000 000 Ins been spent by Dily in wages and In work for operating these mines All of this money has come out of tho mines and no one but the owners know how much more the mines have paid. The slock Is not for sale and the Anacondi mines and smelters form n close corporation 1 he lumber w hlch is used each month for operating the mine would make a board w ilk two feet wide from Washington to Philadelphia and loo cords of wood arc eaten up each day In the mine Ihice thousind tons of ore are shipped out from the mines daily, and I.vcr thing connected with them Is done alter tne litest methods with the finest of Improved machinery and on a gigantic scale. THE WORLD'S UIGOtST SMELTER. These mines arc looted at Ilutte c!t), but the ore Is all brought about thirty-seven thirty-seven miles here to Anaconda to he smelted, and the biggest smelling works in the world arc here. I went through them today. The) w ill the sides of tho mountain, covering more thin eighty acres of space with vast buildings packed pack-ed full of machinery. Great brick chlmne)s one third ns high as the Washington monument pierce the sky as they stand on the tops of the moun-tilns moun-tilns above them, and these are connected con-nected with the works b) flues so large thai you could driven wagon I !,r hay through tlicm without touch u wills This is to givu the 1 upir draught. There nro vist cninu mid groat boilers and a wilderness of ni iclu-nery iclu-nery Tho fly wheels c. the uigincs are as hl,li as a three story li 1 1 nn I Ihe poer Is conducted by call s if steel which tun from one clevali m to another up the sides of the mount 1I11 I cmnot di cribc the machinery 1 ept lo say that the ore producing rock, containing contain-ing copper, gold and silver, is p unded Into a mush with gre it stcmpi mil then filtered nnd itfilicrcd, run tlirough process pro-cess after process, until nt list it comes out In the shape of n metal sand vvh h Is taken lo oilier works and re luce 1 1 1 metal. 1 rcmeinberonoroom on which this md ran over hundreds of gn at liblcs almost ns big around bi null circus tLiit, nnd these were wasi d by running strcnm of water In tuiimway tint the icfuso went off Inlo pipes, while the copper ore remained on the tables. In oilier vast rooms covering acres were hundreds of grinding ma chines which miden noise like i sew Ing maililne, and there were acres of settling its nnd of nlmost every Imaginable kind of nnchlncry. TIIK ATMOSPHERE Op IILI I I drove from here to the smelling woiks and walked thruugh ist rooms filled whh fumes or sulphur, vvl lili mike )ou feel as though a bushel of matches were being burned under )Our n , nnd saw the roasting of this copper In Meat Iron coffee pots five times as b! as the larccst hogshead jou have evers in nnd watched the reddish golden 1111 til pour out in streams and run ofr In cal.es the size of n center tabic or In bloees like those In which pig Iron Is cast. A gre it many of these processes aresecrct and electricity is now being used lo sepiralo the gold and silver from the copper. The amount of gold nnd silver In this Anaconda coppt r is such tint it li he-llevcd he-llevcd that It wilt cvcnttnll) biar the cost of refining and the copper will be pure profit. It tikes nbout 3 001) mm to w ork. Ibis smelter, nnd the w jj.es pild them are from ft jo upwird per ih). i:ertlilnglsdoncoii thestrlclcit business busi-ness method 1, but Dtly'a trcilmcnt of his men Is such tint he never has a strike, and they stand up for him through thick nnd thin It is this fact that makes him such a great power among the people In Montana. He has thousimls of cmplo)cs, and his friends nrc legion, I visited the smelter at noon, nnd n curious sight was tint of the men cooking cook-ing beefsteak on hot shovels which they rested on the kettles of molten copper now t Alices dalv looks. I met Mr. Daly during my stiy here and had an hours chat with him lie louks a good dcil bko I'roclor Knott of Kentucky, save that his hair and mustache mus-tache arc gny rather thin white and his head Is shrilly larger than Knott a He Is a blue-evco, rosy.faccd Irishman of about fifty-five)eirsof age He dresses simply and there nro no frills or furbelow furbe-low s about him. I Ic Is full of Igor, nnd when I rode with him from liuite to Anaconda Hie other day on the train he wore a soft hit, a rough chinchilla over-coil, over-coil, npair of pantaloons which weie decidedly without the creases of the New Yotk dude, nnd his shoes were coveted with ntuir of rubbers spidered with the mud of llutle Cil). I found him a good talker and full of plain pricllcil I ever) diy commm seme. Hchasablt I of a brogue, but hli I lUjhJs 11 hearty one, amnio evidently injoys life. Mir-ciu Mir-ciu Dily Is married nnd lie Ins a very handsome wife and dellgl tlul l.nnil) He his two diughiers who nru going to school in 1'arl-, nnd his boy, Mucus Dily, Jr.nnd Ills youngest daughter, Ilitiie, n pretty hltlo girl of seven or eight nro vviththelrmothir at the Ana Hindi Hotel Mrs Daly has been married twenty )cnrs, yet she does not look over thirty five, nnd she has as much common sense as her husbind. Mr. Dily is especially fond of Hatlle He has named oncol Ins horses nflcr herald his pal ice car burs her name This car cost something like 10 It has bed rooms, parlors, kitchens nnd bith rooms and Is used by the fimlly when they travel. As for Marcus Dily himself he tides In any kind or n car, and the family live here in Anacondi In the simplest kind of sl)Ie This hotel cost something llkcfjou no and is kept up nt n big cost It is ow ned by Daly, but his rooms in it arc ns plainly turn Islicd ns those of ininy of his employs' pailors, and his till lis simple in the extreme. He rlso ..bout 6 30 tu Ihe morning, takes a cup of coffee and n bcefstciK and Is at work before many of his employes are up He works last, deciding quickly on ever thing ami showing gtcit executive ability There is no ted tape nbout his oltice Any one who has business with him cm get to him at once, and ho will notheit about the bush, but comics to business with )ount once He dischirgcs his obllgillons promptly and nlw a) s keeps his 1n1.a2cm1.nts Though he Is worth mmy millions, he has entire chirge of this great mine property and ntlendsto this In addition to his other business and Ills private Investments. I nm told that there arumoretlnn 10 000 men dependent depen-dent upon his orders dill), and he Ins lumber mills and wood cutters and adds to the whole a first diss newspaper hero nt Anacondi. The Anacondi standard is one of the best new spapcrs In the w est, and though It is run nt n loss ll Ins the litest and best news. I nm told tint Mr. Daly controls f H 000,000 vv orth of property In Montani and it is said that the Anaeondt ptu-trty would bring J3 000,000 any diy. His monthly pay toll for hbor herein Anicoudi nlonu Is more than fito.oco and he piys ( 50,000 a month for the coal he uses DALY'S FASIOL'H MORSE KARJI. Marcus Daly Ins some of the fastest horses in the world, and he has a horse farm not far from here wh'ch contilns about 1,000 000 worth ol horses, and which includes 4 000 acres. I Ie is build ingn big frnme house on tins now which will hac about twenty-nine rooms, and hesiys he expects to retire here when he gets tired of work. He has Ideas of his own with regard to his horses, nnd I had an Interesting conversation with him today about them. I asked him if he expected to make money out of his horses or if his riclng stock wis not merely one of the luxuries of a millionaire. million-aire. He replied "Of course I expect to mike money out of them No one In Monlani goes into luxuries of lint kind for the fun of the thing, and if 1 really thought I could nut mike a profit out of my stables 1 wutitd sell litem tonorrow I have a theory thnt the state of .Montani will produce the best horses of the world intl I am testing IL The climate here Is cold In tho winter, but the air is pure and it Increases the lung power of the horses I am told that the boys here at ten )cars requlra suits of clothing ns large ns those worn by n twc1vc-)cu-otd boy of the east The air expand, their lungs and they grow big chests, nnd the same Is so of horses. As to the coldness of thocllmitennd the charge that colts will not grow here In the winter, if this is true 1 expect to overcome It by good rtibhng ami good food Our grass here is better than tint of Californli or Ken tucky, and it mikes belter bones and better feed. I am buying the very best of stockjind so far in) stablis arc doiug very well. DUSlsr.ssiN r.KerujiNa. "How are they managed? ' 1 My firm is run on the sime business principles ns nrc the mines mil smelters. Iyer) thing Is a)tematlzed and kept in bo k shape. I very saddle anir bridle is charged, and If n halter strap Is broken bro-ken it lias to be brought back before a new one can bo given out. I know to a cent what everything costs, and I keep twoscls of books, one of my racing and the other of my breeding stables I have weekly reports, nnd I know just exictl) on what horses I am making and on what I am losing " A.F0KTUN1 IN IIORSr KACINO. How did your slables piy last )car" I a,ked "1 airly w cil," w is Ihe rcpl) "They netted me soincihlng like ftij.an nnd the) cost about fp uoo I liald f looou for Tammany w lien I bought him as a vearllng llewon jf;Suoo last )carnnd lie will probably win nt least fsp.aa this scison He is now three )cars old, nnd I will taki him off Ihe track nfter this se .son nnd breed him 1 o show you I oa1 I tun the stables U hen I bought Tammaii) I of course charged the racing-stables racing-stables with him All the expenses of keeping him his bien charged to him, as well ns every other item ihat lie lias cost. 1 ato charge against him n per cent on the amount Invested hi him, and the difference between the cost and the amount he tilings gives me the profit I make out of him When 1 take him over tothe breeding stables I will charge the breeding itiblcs ?5 poo for him and will credit that amount to tlie racing slibles A regulir record will be kept of his colts, nnd he ought to produce thirty or fnrtvnyear, which nt eleven mouihs old vv ill be w orth $t 000 apiece, and In some cases will bring as high as ia 000 each I w III only keep Ihe best colts of my of my breeding and I regularly regu-larly weed out the culls. I.acll of these colls will be clinrgcd In turn and the twostiblcs will be kept entirely separate, separ-ate, so )ou see I cm tell to n T' Just where I am making or losing " DALV ON IIOKSE TRAINLKS Marcus Dily his tlie best horse trainers In the Untied States. Tvery one knows of Matthew II) rues, who is at the held of his stables here, and who Jl gets, I am told, something between HI f loooonnd fnooon year, the Jockey flU w ho his charge of 1 nmmmy is Snapper III Garrison, who Is said to receive J10000 flli a year, nnd I got n picture today of HkI Snipper Garrison on Tnmminy which Hpj was recently mido for Mr, Daly, Mr aH Daly said BKI "I think good torse trainers are bom, Htt! not made They must have an Intuitive Hl knowledge of tho horse and a good Hf trainer Is n nrc mm We never allow aaW our horses to be abused or sworn at on Hi tho farm Of course It is different in a rice, then thejockevs sometimes cut the life almost out of mem." TIIK KtCKR VEKSUS Till- TROTTgR. HI "How about the trotter, Mr. Dal)' Bfl You hive a number of line trotting H horses 'No, not now," was the reply. "lam H closing out my trolling stock as fist as HB possible I don tlxlicvcthit trolling is MH legitimate sport. It is the result of me- H chinical training nnd meclnnlc.il breed- H Ing I prefer to devote myself to run H ning stock and I believe that there is RV more money in It The earning capi- lUl city of a running horse Is much (.reitcr Hf "How about Ihe record? Has it HH reached its lowest limit?" HU ' No, 1 believe not I expect to see a HI mdo trotted in two minutes before I Bail HI 'How about the racing record' Will Hal that be low ercd? ' "Tli.it is hard to say," said Mircus AH Dal)- "It is truen phenomenal horse HI mi) come which will cut it down hrtnw HH I 35, the record no heldb Salvntor. Hal There Is a limit to the physical p issibi H lily of n horse and 1 jj Is very fast HI time HI UilltlSIl II0RSS5CN'TI!liATl1 H I here told Mr. Daly that I had visited HJ the Liblcs of North, the nitrate king, In HI I.ugtaiid list summer and I asked him HI what he thought uf the horse which HI North h d sent to the Chicago derby "I don't believe that the) will be nble M to do an) thing," wis Ills nply "They are not ncclinnted and I re,mh horses HI cm do little in America tor the first HI )cir The tracks nrc hard for them H and they cannot do themselves justice. HI North bis some horses which arc good H in Englmd, but If 1 nm not mistaken HI the) would bo considered second rate in H America Lngland cm make .1 belter HI strain of blood thatiwc can nnd we go wJ there for our thoroughbreds, I ut wc can 9H bleed better horses here, put new life HB Into them by leeding and tnke them Hu back and beat them on their ow n track " Ha 57,OO0 ON THE BROOKLYN SKniRDAN. H "Speiking of business again, Mr. JHr Daly, do )ou ever bet on jour Hr horses? ' ham1 es, 1 do," wis the reply, "but I (HI don t put my winning nnd losing down Hf to the proht or loss of my slables I M invest in bets upon my horses just ns I HJ would on stock which I thought was jHJ going up. I back them for whit 1 think H' they nre worth and 1 made er.oooon B the llrookljn suburban last )iar, but H this muter goes Into my private ex- JHJ petisc account nnd it is not set down HM against the horses." H I RANK G. CARrCNTSR. Hfl |