The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-30
JIM CLARK IN NEW YORK
Several Peculiar Statements Put
in His Mouth.
TRIBUNE INTERVIEWS HIM
He Tells How the Republic Nine Was
discovered - interviewer Mixed
on His Geography and
Important Facts.

Jim Clark, who is so well remem-
bered in Anaconda, where he was for
long foreman at the works, now one
of the Republic millionaires in the
state of Washington. has been in New
York recently. There he was inter-
viewed by the Tribune, the interview
being put together with that display
of ignorance of western matters pc
cular to New York. The interview as
the Tribune prints it, appears below.
In reading it read Rossland, B. c.,
for Rolin, B. C. Roln may be on a
New York map, but is not known out
here. Mr.. Clark was doubtless aston
ished when he found himself quoted as
saying he had always had an idea that
there was plenty of gold in the Coupe
Vile reservation" There is no Coupe
vile reservation in Washington or any
where else MIR. Clark referred to the
Colville reservation. Coupeville is a
little town down near the ocean about
$50 miles from the Colville reservation.
Ii is doubtful that Mr.. Clark said the
Lone Pine, Surprise and Pearl tnot
PeriD in the Republic district pay we'll
They do not pay well as they are only
in development stage, though very
promising properties.
Here is the interview:
At the Hotel Imperial is a man who
has become rich in mining speculations
in Washington within the last three
years. His name is James Clark. To a
Tribune reporter he told the story of
how he did it. "A little more than
three years ago." said Mr.. Clark, II
was the manager of the War Eagle
mine, near Rolin, British Columbia.
had always had the idea that there was.
plenty of gold in the Coupeville reser-'
walton, in Washington state, and one
day l decided to make an investigation.
| gave two Of my workmen $50 each
and started them out prospecting. A
hundred dollars was a large sum with
me then, but it made me a rich man,
and it made the prospectors rich men,
too. They discovered gold in large
quantities, and / Immediately organ
lied the Republic Gold Mining com
pany. There We're 100000 shares of
stock. The two prospectors and ! had
fourth interest each. The remainder
of the shares we disposed of at 10 cents
a share, although we had a hard time
doing it. When operations We're finally
begun we had splendid success. Three
months ago we sold 900. 900 shares of the
stock to a Montreal syndicate for So
500. 900. We now have a cyanide plant
and all the modern improvements, and
the stock is worth $3.50 a share. In
addition to the Republic, that 500 in
vestment gave me fourth interest in
the Lone Pine. Surprise and Peril mines
in the same district, ali of which pay
very well and have glorious futures.
THAT 800 was the best investment
ever made or ever expect to make.
Mining is very fine thing when you
have luck. 1t is literally finding
money, and you usually find it in large
hunks, too, when you find it at all
There are mighty few businesses now
adays which will enable a man to make
fortune in three years. Beyond all
doubt Washington state is fabulously
rich in mineral deposits. Mining has
become the mainstay of the state, and
agriculture has been compelled to take
q back seat"