Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-25
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The Road tie Big Fsur Travelled.
From the River Pred: The Republican
newspapers OF the territory are pleased to
rsfer to Marcus DAILY. ". A. Clark, G. A.
Broadwater and 8. 7. Hauser AZ the .Big
Four The term is supposed to carry .
great deal Of meaning not at all fatterinR
TO the gentlemen named. But they can Of
ford to accept IL. There is no reproach IN
the name. They are big men as men are
rated now-a-days-four1of the biggest men
In the territory ,andithey havedone morefor
Montana, more 70 promote its prosperity
and to bring il to it's present enviable pc,
sition among the territories than any other
twelve men in it.
They are rich men. and because they are
rich-rich in brains as we'll as in purse, il
the reason they ara called the "Big Four
But they got their money honesily-by
right down hard work and plenty OF it
They had no fat government contracts
from which to gather in unearned shekels
nor great fortunes left them by wealthy re
lations, nor did they havethe east between
two days with Che savings Of confiding de
~positors. Not q bit Of it.
Marcus Daily came here q poor q in
the employ OF Walker Bros, OF Lalt Lake
to expert the Rainbow lode near Butte
He has made what he mas out OF the
bowels of the earth, taking only what be
loneed to the man that found IL, ~iniurin(
nor impoverishing none. To-day he il fur
nishine bread and meat to more men
women and children than is the whole
Republican party of Montana.
w. A. Clark commenced his career in
Montana as q shoveler in q tail race. He
then obtained q position az clerk in a Hell
ena store, afterwards q pony express
between this city and Deer Lodge, doini
most OF the riding himself: then kept q
small store, and finally went to Butte
where he made about all he has in mining
He also furnishes food to more employees
than all the leaders OF the Republican
party in the territory.
@. A. Bloadwater entered Montana is q
""bull-whacker," and become bow LEGGED
riding his leader across streams. HI
branched out into the ~freighsing business
with two or three other young men, and
bossed the great Diamond r" trains o
the ante-railroad days. He climbed uE
into railroad building and banking by
cheer force Of his indomitable will and per
severing labor, and is now counted one o
the rich men of the territory.
is. T. Hauser entered the road to fortune
ir the early sixties by engineering a wheel
barrow out OF a tunnel. He made som'
money in mining and established q bank
He has since continued the business o
mining and banking, and now possesses
fortune. When the roll OF Montana
benefactors shall be called it will be found
that Sam Hauser has spent more money
in mining and kindred enterprises, anC
done more to develop the territory and tt
promote the welfare Of it's people thar
have any one hundred members OF the Re
publican party in it.
These are the "Big Four" 1t will b,
seen that neither Travelled q primrose patl
to fortune. Their beginnings were humble
Not one OF them when he first came to tn
territory had money enough to get a squar
meal and aroom in the Montana" in Ana
conda. They are now wealthy men, bu
| they owe no man for what they have. TIL
same path they pursued to q fortune j
still open to others who have the energy
perseverance,, brains and nerve to follow
it. No one is barred but those who lael
the attributes named and they may b
found among the light WASTED writer's wit
are directing their pop-guns against tn
Big Four.