The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-18
THEY MADE THINGS HUM
Tarbstt and Durant Cut a swath
In New York.
WITH A SNUG MILLION
Noneyed Miners Show the East How
ehskels Should Be spent-Made
Il In the Sale OF the Center
star.

Alex Tarbett of Butte and oliver Du-
rant. who made a fortune by the sale
of their interests in the Center Star
mine at Rossland. have been taking in
New York, and the Morning Telegram
devotes a half column to them under
a scare head. "Moneyed Miners Make
Things Hum"
individuals who in the midst of a
wilderness come into possession of a
couple Of millions of dollar are apt.
when they subsequently project them
selves into civilization. to make things
hum. SO IL comes about that upper
Broadway II just now rejoicing In the
dual presepces of Oliver Durant and
Alexander Tarbett. II must not be
supposed by this that the gentlemen in
question are conducting themselves in
anything but an entirely proper fash
ion. Nevertheless there are lurid pos
sibilities In a brace of mining men who
have come to town, each with a SINUS
million I'm his inside pocket.
"Durant and Tarbett have been in
terested in mining properties for a
number of years. Mr.. Tarbett halls
from the South. while Mr.. Durant
claims n of the Middle states as his
birthplace. Just what IL was that
prompted them to invest capital and
brain power in mines in British Column
bia Is best known to themselves. But
the fact remains that abou IL months
since they o up claims in Rossland.
b. c., went to work. developed leads
and 'lodes' and all the rest of the min
ing things. n struck IL rich.
Next they interested certain mon
eyed men in their discoveries. The
quartz PANIED out satisfactorily and
their bank grew apace. Then
the representative of an English syn
dicate-there Is always an English syn
dictate In such cases-got nosing around
their property. His Investigations on
WINGED him that the young men were
prospective m~illionaires. Naturally he
desired To head of their riches on be-
half of his employers. Naturally. too.
he made them an offer. which they very
naturally declined.
Negotiations thus opened went on
for two or three months Then the En-
glishman came out with a n~atfooted
offer of a couple of million Of dollars.
With "A wisdom beyond their years,
Tarbett n Durant snapped the cash.
assigned their claims i'm the Center star
mine. and made a bee line for the Ten
derloin.
VERY genial gentlemen they both
are. Generous 10 a degree. breezy I'm
speech. arid Of palate and unweary-
ing physically. they are just the men
whom New Workers like to honor.
Their capacity for wine is magnificent,
and their appetite for broiled Holsters
Is of the sort begotten from a long
abstinence from that dainty. With
their coming. Broadway has acquired
an additional streak of i~ridescence.
With their going the metropolis will
be shy several notes of gayety. And
precisely how many feminine hearts
will pulsate the slower when they bid
their final adieux to these thorough
fares. only the owners thereof and the
lucky miners can tell.
Meantime the visible supply of wine
between Thirty-fourth and Forty-Sec-
ond streets is being gradually but sure
ly lowered. This. no Sever. is a matter
more OF record than regret. IL is said
la the young men are trying to inter-
est Wall Street concerns in yet more
mines. II is to be hoped that for their
own sakes they will succeed i'm so do
ing. But IL they do. what of the flu
ture of our Holsters and our cold bot
tles3"