The times., 1899-12-15

The romance of Monte Cristo is feeble
in its details compared with The actual in
oilents in the life and success of William
A Clark the new Senator from Montana.
j is not possible for any man TO estimate
The extent Of his fortuue-not even himself.
probably. bur as he was offered fifty mill
ions Of dollars for the United Verde mine
IN Arizona which be owns entirely. it is
safe 10 assume that he has earned up to
his time more than sixty millions or a
million q year for every year of his life.
not excluding infancy A Helena writer
who knows him well has the following TO
Gay Of him:
Wv a. Clark Is Pennsylvania by
birth, and when he came West in the
ff,ies then not more than twenty years
Of age, h. was not rich. and had no par
iicular object in view except to grow up
with the country. He driftsd out as far
as Walla WaIla, Wash where he bought
four-h0urse wagon load of tobacco and
hauled ID 10 some mines where tine North
ern Pacific row IS. and sold il a. sufficient
profit TO give him his first real start. He
struck Montana about G2 or "a and went
ir-o merchandising. mining ard other ven
tur5s making more or less money all The
tue but nothing big When the Butte
copper mines were discovered about lS75
Clark Was among rha FIRST 0E The ground
ana had the lest ofr1rfu- .tIes 90 getting
good pros r.s From fhi- slime Oh Clark
made money fa- and hE s8 De- nas rerk-
CHaa EIuralTa with fhe fr-s ml JON
W e me l.trrF cam. rs-.E
As a- la.l.ieE ~ Hlet De- has. mas
cite feH r.U He fhr sole owner ar
O. llrad Verde copper mine la Arizona
Hl makes lf- raE. 90 $500 a
mon and for r De- has refused S5a Ga1.-
. .l'- mime Is capable or o.
Irolr 81. flN Haa Hag IS worked ro l.s
ta. -are...E H. has r.us sugar farm
ana tsrrorE near Lrs Angeles which clear
et $500 f1e .rr. Erar. le owns one ol
%. lar--. ..aet sliuHs Boz the world
iu Mexico la owns la.l mine il 2ri-
acrl paying giHHn# month he Owls
mining Interests ln Butte worth $4,000
a uel.L Ef Is spending S-0ga month
il she Caear a'Alsae district. Idaho de-
YeluFuE rhe largest lead mines in the
tlltei s-ates- DE owns q coal mine IG
Carbon county. M0u which Is said 20 be-
th- best equipped lH the country: be is
probably the larzeE, live stock owner in
MCltaua. one herd alone being worth
$4,000 be has extensive lumber interests
in MCntala; he owns a bank I'm Butte he
owns newspaper the Butte Miner" he
is a very large holder or gilt edge rail-
road securities; he owns The finest resi-
dence in Butte and is spending S2 500 600
in building his New York city home and
nobody knows how much other property,
cash, and other available assets he has.
As al example OF the amount cf ready
money he carries, ] viii mention one case.
When the late a. " Lyman was appointed
Internal Revenue Collector he asked Mr..
Clark 10 go Oh his bond They were both
in New York city al the time. and Mr..
Clark said he had no real estate there.
but that he had cash 10 four or five banks.
and they went TO the nearest one having an
Rccount with Mr. Clark. The books Showed
2 deposit Ct over Sl00O,000 10 his credit
and he others were about The same.
"Nov as 10 the man himself. He has the
greatest capacity for work OF any man ]
ever knew and for years his working