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Show GHANT OF INDUSTRY. SENATOR CLARK, THE WORLD'S RICHEST BUSINESS MAN. Hl Chain of Properties, from Maine to California, Includes a Quarry, Mines, Ranches. Street Railways and Other hings. reach one's thoughts before they are put in words. Eyes that seem like flashes of burnished steel, at first, they change to gray-blue at near range. They are good eyes nothing sinister or underhanded lurk in their depths. With eyes like these a man can see clearly his own plans and perceive mor clearly points in an opponent's campaign. Ten years hence it is admitted ad-mitted on all sides that Senator Clark will be the richest man in the world. (Special L tter.) By the pu.clase of a granite quarry in Maine, Senator W. A. Clark of Montana, king of all c pp r kings, manufacturer, banker, publisher, sugar refiner, rubber grower, lumber operator, opera-tor, railroad bu.lder, cial miner and many, many tim s a mil ion ire, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, has completed a chain of industries f;-cni Mine to California, and from the Gulf of Mexico Mex-ico to the Canadian border. Up in North Jay, Maine, he has bought and equipped a quarry .with 300,000 tons of beautiful white granite J in sight, he says. Away off across the continent in southern CjI fovnia, 3,6H0 miles away, he owns a m ns er range of countless acres dav.t d to best sugar raising. On the Gu.f of Mexico Mex-ico he owns another big range cf 130,-000 130,-000 acre devoted to the grow:h o rubber trees and coffe?. Thousands of miles north, in the state of Montana, he owns mines, banks, street railways, real estate, lumber mills and lots of He keeps no costly stable nor steam yacht; he doesn't risk his great fortune for-tune in stock gambling. Even today he is known to be the richest business man in America. His income is about ?8,000,000 a year, and is growing apace. His wealth is unknown to all men except ex-cept himself. It has been estimated at $60,000,000, and from that figure up to ?K0,000,000. Every dollar of his great fortune has been actually earned. Not a penny of it has been won or lost in stock speculation. Senator Clark's Properties. Senator Clark owns several mining properties and a smelter at Butte. He owns the biggest banking institution in the whole northwest. He owns 25 miles of street railway. He owns a big daily newspaper plant He owns thousands thou-sands of dollars' worth of real estate. He owns big business blocks. He owns the opera house. In other parts of Montana he owns five newspapers, timber tim-ber tracts and lumber mills, coal mines and ranches. He owns and operates mines in Idaho, Nevada and Colorado. other things, besides as ng a umieu States senator. Between th s four points Senator Cla;k is the active head of various industries of h s own creating. cre-ating. Has Never Failed. No record of industrial failure has ever been ent.red against tins man. Everything he has tak n hold of has resulted in gnat and und v.dcd dividends.' divi-dends.' For Senator Clark is not a head or part of a combine or corporation. corpora-tion. He himself is the head, the heart, the soul, the creator, the direc- He owns the franchise and is burlding a railroad from Utah to southern California. Cali-fornia. He owns a controlling interest inter-est in a daily paper in Salt Lake City. In Arizona he owns the rich United Verde copper mines and a ranch of 300,000 acres in California devoted to beet sugar raising, the first one of any consequence started in this country. He owns and operates a large coal mine in Mexico. On the Gulf of Mexico, on the Mexican side, he owns a vast tract of fertile land which is to be utilized in growing rubber and coffee. This is one of Senator Clark's latest projects. The work of setting out rubber trees is now being pushed ahead and will not be finished until 1,000,000 trees are planted. When five or six years old these trees will each yield one dollar's worth . of raw material. One of the largest of Senator Clark's industries is the Waclark Copper Wire Company of New Jersey. This plant treats the copper cop-per bricks from the senator's smelters and turns them into coils of high-priced high-priced wire ready for the hardware market. ;or ana geueiai Buiiciii.. s a master of d tai s, a syslematizer, ind therein, he says, lies the secret of iis successful business career. Men who know both sayW. A. Clark is head- and shoulders above J. Pier-pont Pier-pont Morgan as a business man. Clark creates industries; Morgan formulates combines to absoib created industries. Clark alone runs his m'ghty business; busi-ness; Morgan doesn't. No mind hut the senator's from Montana is recognized recog-nized in his affairs. No boa-d of directors di-rectors pass upon his ideas. He is the whole thing. It isn't so with Morgan. Everything he is conn;c.ed with has its board of directo.s. each of whom conceives id: as aiiu" iiui til-ffi ab . tenderly as Mjrgan. The purpose of Clark in purchasing SENATOR WILLIAM A. CLARK, the quarry was to supply granite for his New York mansion. Every piece of granite is cut to fit a certain place in the growing palace in New York. The quarrymen have the architect's plans to go by and each piece of granite is numbered to correspond with the number num-ber in the specifications. The quarry yields a beautiful white granite of a kind unlike- any other in the world. One hundred skilled quarrymen with compressed air drills carve out huge slices of this pure granite, each slice being destined to fit a spcinjd niche in the New York mansion. Seventy-five Seventy-five skilled stone cutters receive the granite at Portland and chip the slices into dressed condition. Then , the dressed slices are wrapped in bagging, garnished with slats and shipped by train or boat to New York. Sanator Clark waited nearly two years for a certain company to furnish the granite and then brushed them aside, bought a quarry adjoining the procrastinating company's works and equipped it himself. him-self. ' Cares Naught for Trusts. It is said that the quarry owners formed a combine for the purpose of raising the price of granite and marked Senator Clark as the "angel" who wouJ pay the freight. But the millionaire mil-lionaire from the northwest stood out and nearly caused a panic among the granite "workers" by buying a quarry of his own. The Richest Business Man. Senator Clark is 63 years old, medium me-dium height, slender and wiry. His most striking feature is found in the eyes. Clear, steady, piercing, they I |