The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-11

| wealth and fame have come to him
from the bosom of mother earth as the
reward of toll and labor and wonderful
enterprise. His millions did not come
from plundered provinces or ravaged
shrines. He can hold his head high
among the princes and great ones of the
world, for his fortune did not have it's
foundation in the tears and plumber of
nations. as so many of the fortunes of
the so-cal1ed great ones of the world.
doubt If there be another industrial en-
terprise in the world comparable to the
Anaconda. 1t disburses more wages
than all the mills of Lowell and Fall
River combined. 1t pays more to its
Workmen than the entire state of Kan
sas does for the labor that reaps its
wheat crop. 1t distributes more to its
employees than Louisiana does to the
toilers that gather it's cotton crop; and
the creator. so to speak, of this great
and successful enterprise, grew up in a
stagnant and poverty stricken Irish
village and fled to the United States
some 40 years ago in search of bread
and work, rather than of wealth and
fame, and now Marcus Daily can say to
MontananS what Othello said to We
nice: L have done the state some ser
vice, and they know it. He is, indeed,
a benefactor of his kind, for his enter
prise, no less than his genius and gem
crosby, has given employment to tens
of thousands and wealth and affiusnce
to multitudes. Daily is man of me-
dunn height and a face and head that
recall the classic profile of Gen. Phil
Sheridan. Like Sheridan, DAILY il
born leader of men, and had oppor-
tunity been given him, he would have
made his mark at court or in the SEN
ate or on the battlefield. Despite his
many disadvantages, springing from
lnn of r11 i,ir md nI1
it is wonderful to hear this man talk on
politics and finance, on commerce and
science. There is a robustness of COM
mon sense about him that is refreshing,
and his friends and associates Of his
days of struggle and obscurity are his
friends and associates still. He is fine
type of the American of the West. This
is not the place to talk of the achieve
ments of Marcus DAILY on the turf or
of that wonderful collection of race
horses which he has raised on his great
mountain ranch; but the race horse is
Days joy and recreation, for that sport
is his one relaxation from incessant
care and labor.
LAS to the merits of the great legal
battle between the Butte & Boston and
the Boston & Montana companies on
the one side, and F. A Heinze on the
other I have naught to say. That bat
tie will prove one of the most famous
legal battles in the history of the re-
public. Pitted against each other are
the foremost lawyers and advocates of
the West. In that battle also are the
greatest mining experts the world has
yet known. While the contest lasts, it
will cost either side nearly 100000 a
year. and it will take 10 years to adju-
dictate on half the cases. There will be
skirmishes. charges and battles won
and lost on both sides. but heaven only
knows wh1m the decisive contest shall
name the victor. Up to date the hon1rs
are pretty easy. On the one SIDE,
Heinze is forcing the Boston & Montana
into the hands Of a receiver, and the
Boston & Montana is working heaven
and earth to shut off Heinze from
operating a single mine in Butte. As
| have said before, it were idle, not
criminal. to enter into the merits of the
case for it is still sub judice, and only
the United States supreme court can
decide whether Heinze has surpassed
his rights i'll following ore chutes which
he found in his workings, but which d d
not crop ON his ground. If the supreme
court decide that mineral zones are
synonymous with lodes or veins,
Heinze, without doubt, will come out