The morning call., 1893-05-07

but will 20 down and look at the job"
BE did SC and came back the same day, and
said that the mine was too wet. and that a ;
mis- lungs were not strong he feared To 60 to
work in 1t. He then loafed around for an
other week. and the landlord. getting more
desperate still about the payment of his
board, went out and found him another
job. Daily looked at II, worked in it for two
days and then came back and said that the
mine was not tmbered properly, aud that
he would not work in 1t. Now the board
bill for three weeks was due, and the land
lord got hot He went up to Walkeryllle
and got DAILY a job in the Alice mine. He
told the Walkerville owners that he had
man loafing around at his place
for whom he wanted work long enough
to pay his three weeks board. They gave
him the job and he came back to DAILY He
swore al Daily upon his return, telling him
he was too - particular about his work
and too - easy about his eating. He said
that he had got him another job and that he
wanted him to take IL and stick to It. AS
DAILY heard him say that the work was in
the Alice mine his heart must have Jumped,
but there was not change in his features
and he only said:
We'll. will 90 and look at it."
IL was the opportunity be had waited for
and he took his place as an ordinary miner
In the Alice He worked for three weeks
inspecting the property as he dug and
mined, and at the end of this time he tbrew
w tito Jbu anu iS1b Duttt lily. SlN WpnEa
later he came to the surface as manager Of
the property. The Walkers, at his advice.
bought the mine and they put him ut its
head
While Mr.. DAILY was managing this be
was looking about for other mines on his
own account, and lie Invested in a number
of silver mines. 1 asked him Yesterday
whether he had ever made any money in
silver mines, and he replied that he had
put he ala not give me the figures. Among
the mines he bought was the Anaconda
mine, Tor which he paid, | think. san oG0
1t was begun as a silver mine, but after rnn.
ming down l20 feet the lead developed into
one OF the biggest copper veins on record
Up TO this time not much attention was maid
to copper, but DAILY organlzed a company
and went 10 work IN his mine. The COM
pany consisted Of j. B. HagRin Of Califcr-
MIA. the late Senator George Hearst, Marcns
Daily and one or two Others and
10 has materially aided 10 the mil
lions OF these well-known millionaires
can't give you any adequate idea of the
enormous extent of these great mines. Two
thousand miners are employed in the IN ines
day and night, and within the last ten wears
the enormous sum Of S40000,0O has been
spent by DAILY in wages and in works for
operating these mines. All OF this money
LAS come out OF The mines and no one but
the owners know how much more the mines
nave paid. The stock is not for sale and
the Anaconda mines and smeliers form a
ciose corporation. The lumber which is
used each month for operating the mine
would make board walk two feet wide
from Washington to Philadelphia. and loo
cords OF wood are eaten up each day in the
mine. Three thousand tons of ore ara
shipped out from. the mines daily, and
everything connected with them is done
after the latest methods with the finest OF
improved machinery and on gigantic scale.
These mines are located at Butte City.
but the ore is all brought about thirty-seyen
miles here TO Anaconda to be smelted, and
the biggest smelling works in the world are
here. l went through them to-day. They
wall the sides of 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 fiues so large that you could
drive wagon load of hay through THEM
without touching the walls. This is TO
give the proper draught. There are vast
engines and great boilers and q wilderness
Of machinery. The flywheels Of the en-