The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-23


| right reckoning?
The odd part of it is that this morssl
found place. unquestioned, in the col
| umns of the Great Falls Leader, a
newspaper printed in a city where peo-
pie are supposed to be reasonably in
telligent a least respecting copper and
copper properties. Not because it
amounts to anything, but just fJr tn:
fun of it, apply known facts and fig
ures to these princely calculations. If
all the copper produced in Az ma last
year had been Clarks, if 1t had cost
him not one cent to mine it Or to ship
it or to smelt it or to refine it, ana if
Clark had received for this total Ari-
IONA product. net, the going price for
copper, last year, his income would still
have been millions below the amount
with which his press bureau puts to
his credit.
But the fact is that it costs money to
make copper-the Standard has thous-
ands of readers who can make close
guess at the cost per pound of produc-
ton in Arizona. If you take from the
trustworthy reports the amount of
Verde production you can estimate the
net income easily, if the matter inter-
ests you to the extent of that trouble.
Granted that the ownership of this
property is royal possession. 1t sure
ly is-the Standard has no wish to be-
little it, The moral is in the character
istic vet marvellous vanity of man
who causes his press agents to adver-
tise, after the manner of some patent
medicine, a Verde per-minute income
''soon to be- which is anywhere from
nineteen to twentyfour times bigger
than the facts. We are not saying that
the Verde property is worth kreutzer
less than the $3.50, 900, 900 marked by the
Clark press bureau. But why not call it
an even 100000, 900? For that matter
since the property will bear it equally
well-why not make 1t round thous-
and millions and be somebody?
The annual copper production of the
Boston and Montana properties is
hundred per cent greater than that of
the United Verde; the Anaconda cop
per output is millions of pounds a year
more than double the Boston and Mon
tana's product. The Standard has Won
dered how some of the recent crazy
talk about the alleged value of Ana
conda stock or of Boston and Montana
shares can possibly commend itself to
| the common sense of intelligent bust
| ness men. But if the Clark press
bureaus Verde-income figures are
| right-if they are, du lieber Colt, the
Lewissohns, the Haggins and the rest
of them, to say nothing about buying
! scholarships and nude-woman pictures,
must have money to battle in and to
eat and to light fires with.
They are jaunty penmen, these gen.
| tlemen who compose the Clark literary
| bureau. What comes to them from
| those three typewriters in Paris, re.
| specting whose activities the world
was recently informed by cablegram-.
| what comes thus to these young men,
| goes. They write in such genial ignor-
| ance of mining and mathematics and
| double entry. Why not? They guar
antee nothing. They are as winsome in
| their predictions about next years
| sales as Colonel Sellers was in figuring
| the profits on his eye water: and the
| Standard gives them generously of it's
| space this morning because it's wide
circle of readers who know w. A.
| Clark has need of some diversion in
these depressing days of too much
| cloud.