Show THE COPPER KING ANACONDA ANACON DAj MONT april 28 1893 aby all odds the most character in montana today is marcus daly the famed anaconda millionaire the celebrated horse owner and the chief of the copper kings of the united states no one knows how much daly is worth he ownes a bank or so and electric SWI railroad road a big hotel something like a million dollars worth of horses and lands and he has I 1 am told a one fourte interest in the anaconda copper anines which are the biggest and best il 41 paying of any in the known universe 4 the 71 army of employed emp ernp loyes who work under um is as large in in number as that which xenophon led in the famous retreat described in the and his pay roll runs into the tens of thousands or of dollars per day still he came to the united states a poor boy and when he landed at san francisco at the age of thirteen he had not a cent in his pocket and nd he trotted up and down the board walks for three or four days seeking a job J he looked in vain until at about the icae end of the fourth day he saw an old farmer in a wagon driving through the streets he stopped him and said you got something out at your place that I 1 can do well I 1 dont know young man what can vou do 1 I lean can do ao anything replied young dal ealy an can you dig baters ta yes I 1 can said daly and the man thereupon told him to get into the wagon and he took the boy home to his ranch this was some place east of oakland and daly dug potatoes for the old rancher for three weeks he said it nearly broke hs his back but he stuck to it until he be got a little money and then boy as he was he started for the mines he grew up surrounded by gold and silver and he soon developed a wonderful ability as an expert miner when the he comstock lode was discovered he was in nevada he had by this time become acquainted with mackey flood and obrien and they made him the fore foreman manof of that mine after working liere here for some time he drifted to salt jt lake and was engaged there by the walker brothers who have you know owned some ot of the most famous mines of our history he served them as a mining expert and it was about sixteen years ago that he was sent by them from utah to montana to expert the allice mine HOW MARCUS DALY BOUGHT A MINH MINE the allice mine is one of the most famous in montana it has produced millions of dollars worth of gold and silver its output lor for 1891 was nearly a million and it is still worked at a great profit crofit at the time that the walker brothers Er brothers others thought of buying it the stock had fallen very low they knew that it would r rise i se at once if it was known that they wanted it and daly was sent here to find out all about it he came to butti butte city as a miner he was dressed in rough clothes and pretended that he was dead broke and wanted work he went to the old continental hotel and pretended to look for work for a week but failed to get it and told the landlord that he had no money to pay his board this seemed strange to the landlord as all miners were well paid and as there was a demand for or extra hands the landlord said well I 1 will see if I 1 cant get you a job he then went down to the lexington mine and got a place for daly and told him bim about it mr daly said 1 I am a little particular about my work but I 1 will go down and look at the job 11 he did so and came back the same day and said that the mine was to wet and that his lungs were not strong he feared to go to work in it he then loafed around for another week and the landlord gett ingmore getting more desperate still about the payment of his board went out and found him another job daly looked at it worked in it for two days and then came back and said that the mine was not timbered pro properly perly and that he would not work it now the board bill for three weeks was due and the landlord got hot he went up to walker ville and got daly a job in in the allice mine he told the walkerville Wal kerville owners that he had a man loafing around at his place for whom he wanted work long enough to pay his three weeks board bill they gave him the job and he came back to daly he swore at daly uton upon his return telling him he was too d n particular about his work and too d n easy about his eating he said that he had got him another job and that he wanted him to take it and stick to it As daly heard him say that the work was in the allice mine his bis heart must have jumped but there was not a change in his features and he only well I 1 will go and look at it it was the opportunity he had waited for and he took his place as an ordinary miner in the allice he worked for three weeks inspecting the property as he dug and mined and at the end of this time he threw up the job and left butte city six weeks later he game came to the surface as manager of the property the walkers at his advice bou bought ht the mine and they put him at its heat head MILLIONS IN COPPER while mr daly was managing this he was looking about for other mines on his own account and he invested in a number of silver mines I 1 asked him yesterday whether he had ever made any money in silver mines and he aepli ed that he had but he did not give me the figures among the mines he bought was the anaconda mine for which he paid I 1 think fooloo fo oooo it was begun as a silver mine but after down feet the lead developed into one of the biggest copper veins on record up to this time not much attention was paid to copper but daly organized a company and went to work in th this ismine mine the company consisted of J B haggin of california the late senator george hearst marcus daly and one or two others and it has materially added to the millions of these well known millionaires I 1 cant give you any adequate idea of the enormous extent of these great mines two thousand miners are employed in the mines day and night and within the last ten years the enormous sum of has been spent by daly in wages and in work for operating these mines all of this money has come out of the mines and no one but the owners know how much more the mines have paid id the stock is not for sale and the anaconda na conda mines and smelters shelters sm elters form a close corporation the lumber which is used each month for ope operating the mine would make a board walk two feet wide from washington to philadelphia and cords of wood are eaten up each day in the mine three thousand tons of ore are shipped out from the mines daily and everything very thing connected with them is done after the latest methods with the finest of improved machinery and on a gigantic scale THE WORLDS BIGGEST SMELTER these mines are located at butte city but the ore is all brought about thirty seven miles here to anaconda to be smelted smelter smelt ed and the biggest smelting smelling sm elting works in the world are here I 1 went through h them today th they ey wall the sides of ute t the mountain covering more than eighty acres of space with vast buildings packed full of machinery great brick chimneys one third as high as the washington monument pierce the sky as they stand on the tops of the mountains above them and these are connected with the works by flues so large that you could drive a wagon load of hay through th them am without touching the walls this is is to give the proper draught there are vast engines and great boilers and a wilderness of machi nery the fly wheels of the engines are as high as as a three story house and the power is conducted by cables of steel which run from one elevation to another up the sides of the mountain I 1 cannot describe the machinery except to say that the ore producing rock containing copper gold and silver is pounded into a great stamps and then filtered and re filtered run through process after process until at last it comes out in the shape of a metal sand which is taken to other works and reduced to metal I 1 remember one room on which this sand ran over hundreds of great tables almost as big around as a 1 mall circus tent and these were washed by a running stream of water in such a way that the refuse went off into pipes while the copper ore remained on the tables in other vast rooms covering acres were hundreds of grinding machines which made a noise like a sewing machine and there were acres of settling vats and of almost every imaginable kind of machinery THE op HELL I 1 drove from here to the smelting smelling sm elting works and walked through vast rooms filled with fumes of sulphur which make you feel as though a bushel of matches were being ing burned under your nose and saw the roasting of this copper in in great iron coffee pots five times as big as the largest hogshead you have ever seen and watched the reddish golden metal pour out in streams and runoff run off in cakes the size of ofa a center table or in blocks like those in which pig iron is cast A great many of these processes are secret and electricity is is now being used to separate the gold and silver from the copper the amount of gold and silver in this anaconda copper is such that it is believed that it will eventually bear the cost of refining and the copper will be pure profit it takes about 2000 mn mm to work this smelter and the wages paid aid them are from upward per day ay everything is done on the strictest b business us methods but dalys treatment ot of his men is such that he never h has as a strike and they stand up for him through thick and thin it is this fact that makes him bim such a great power among the people in montana he has thousands of employed emp loyes and his friends are legion I 1 visited the smelter at noon and a curious sight was that of the men cooking beefsteak on hot shovels which they rested on the kettles of molten copper HOW MARCUS DALY LOOKS I 1 met mr daly during my stay here and had an hours chat with him he looks a good deal like proctor knott of kentucky save that his hair and mustache are gray rather than white and his head is sligh slightly tIT larger than knotts he is a blue eye eyed rosy faced irishman of about fifty five years y ears of age redresses He H e dresses simply and there are no frills or burbe lows about him he is full of vigor and when I 1 rode with him from butte to anaconda the other day on the train he wore a soft hat a rough chinchilla overcoat a pair of pantaloons which were decidedly without the creases of the new york dude and his shoes were covered with a pair of rubbers spattered with the mud of butte city I 1 found him a good talker and full of plain practical everyday common sense he has a bit of a brogue but his laugh is a hear hearty ty one and he evidently enjoys life marcus daly is married and he has a very handsome wife and delightful family he has two daughters who are going to school in paris and his boy marcus daly jr and his youngest daughter hattie a pretty little girl of seven or eight are with their mother at the anaconda H hotel otel mrs daly has been married twenty years yet she does not look over thirty five and she has as much common sense as her husband mr daly is especially fond of hattie he has named one of his horses after her and his palace car bears her name this car cost something like 4 oooo it has bed rooms parlors kitchens and bath rooms and is used by the family when they travel As for marcus arcus daly himself h lie e rides in any kind of a car and the family live here in anaconda in the simplest kind of style this hotel cost something like and kept up at a big cost it is owned by daly but his rooms in it are as plainly furnished as those of many of his employed emp loyes parlors and his habits are simple in the extreme he rises at about in the morning mo aning takes a cup of coffee and a beefsteak bee and is at work before many of his employed emp loyes are up he works fast deciding quickly on everything and showing great executive ability there is no red tape about his office any one who has business with him can get to him at once and he will not beat about the bush but comes to business with you at once he discharges his obligations promptly and always keeps his engagements though he is is worth many millions he has entire charge of this great mine mine property and attends to this in addition to his other business and his private investments I 1 am told that there are more than io men dependent upon his orders daily and he has lumber mills and wood cutters and adds to the whole a first class newspaper here at anaconda the anaconda standard is one of the best newspapers in in the west and thou though h it is is run at a loss it has the latest ang and best news I 1 am told that mr daly controls worth of property in montana and it is said that the anaconda property would bring 35 any day his monthly pay roll for labor here in anaconda alone is more than and he pays a month for the coal he uses DALYS FAMOUS HORSE FARM marcus daly has some of the fastest horses in the world and he has a horse farm not far from here which contains about worth of horses and which includes acres he is building a big frame house on this now which will have about twenty nine rooms and he says he expects to retire here when he gets tired of work he has ideas of his own with regard to his horses and I 1 had an interesting conversation with him today about them I 1 asked him if he expected to make money out of his horses or if his racing stock was not merely one of the luxuries of a million aire he replied of course I 1 expect to make money out of them no one in montana goes into luxuries of that kind for the fun of the thing and if I 1 really thought I 1 could not make a profit out of my stables I 1 would sell them tomorrow I 1 have a theory that the state of montana will p produce 0 d e the best horses ot of the world and lic I 1 a am mt testing e s ting it the climate here is is cold in the winter but the air is pure ure and it increases the lung power of the horses I 1 am told that the boys here at ten years require suits of clothing as I 1 large arge as those worn by a twelve year old b boy oy 0 of f the east the air expands their lungs and they grow big chests and the same is so of horses As to the coldness of the climate and the charge that colts will not grow here in the winter if this is true I 1 expect to overcome it by good stabling and good food our grass here is better than that of california or kentucky and it makes better bones and better feed I 1 am buying the very best of so far my stables are doing very well BUSINESS IN BREEDING how are they managed my farm is run on the same business principles as are the mines and smelters shelters sm elters everything is systematized and kept in book shape every saddle and bridle is charged and if a halter strap is broken it has to be brought back before a new one can be given out I 1 know to a cent what everything costs and I 1 keep two sets of books one of my racing and the other of my breeding stables I 1 have weekly reports and I 1 know epst just exactly on what horses I 1 am ma making ing and on what I 1 am losing how did your stables pay last year I 1 asked fairly well was the reply they netted me something like and they cost about 7 i 1 gaid paid xo for tammany when I 1 boug bought t him as a yearling he won last year and he wi will 11 probably win at least this season he is now three years old and I 1 will take him off the track after this season and breed him to show you how I 1 run the stables when I 1 bought tammany I 1 of course charged the racing stables with him all the expenses of kee keeping in him has been charged to him as we well pi fas as every other item that he ti has cost I 1 also charge against him a per cent on the amount invested in him and the difference between the cost and the amount he brings gives me the profit I 1 make out of him when I 1 take him over to the breeding stables I 1 will charge the breeding tables for him and will credit that amount to the racing stables A regular 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