The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-02


sion 10 the Iowa bar, turned his face to-
ward the West. He had little money
and when he reached Western Missouri
ne mad none. In fairly good education
ne mad some capital. however and school
teacnefs We're scarce. When his money
gave out he got job at school teaching.
he kept al this from the fall of 1859
through 1851. In 1862 having saved some
! money, he purchased an emigrant wagon
and an OK team. With these he set OUT
across the plains. He disposed OF his out
Mt at South Park, Col, and went to work
Tor mine owner i'm Central City.
Rounding Up the Camps.
One day in 1853 a man rode into the Con-
tral City camp with a story of rich discov-
cries of gold at Bannack City, Mont
Young Clarke knew the bearer of the news
ana believed the story, with some discount
having learned that all stories of fabu-
iously rich gold should be discounted Ac-
cordingly he persuaded the owner of the
Central City mine to abandon his claim
and join him and three or four other
miners on prospecting tour in Montana
Al the end of a journey of sixty-fve
days che party reached Bannack and the
next day Clarke happened TO hear that
on the following night a party was to
stampede to Horse Prairie, a few miles
away, where the rich mines were supposed
to be. Although he had no invitation,
Clarke joined the stampeding party
| reached Horse Pairie in safety, and
staked out a claim. Al the end of a years
hard work, the, young miner had accumu-
lated 81 500 With that sum he abandoned
the mines forever as claim worker With
unusual foresight he saw more money in
business, in the bartering of merchandise
for the gold that others took out of the
earth.
With this $500 he bought a load of pro-
visions in Salt Lake City, and sold them
at an amazing profit. In the winter of
1865 he repeated the venture with equal
success in Virginia City. In the spring
of that year he opened q general store at
Blackfoot CITY, new mining town, and
from everything he sold he realized large
profits. The following fall he noticed
that tobacco was a scarce article in the
Montana mining camps He saw money
in bringing in a supply. Dsposing of his
store he mounted a horse, rode to Boise
City. Idaho. bought all the tobacco he
| could a $3.50 pound, loaded it on a wagon
| and sold it in Helena at Sc pound.
During the years that Mr.. Clarke was
| growing rich as a merchant and banker
| he did not lose interest as miner. In 1872
| he purchased four well-Enown quartz
| mines, the Original, the Colusa, Mountain
! Chief and Gambetta While buying these
| mines he became convinced that If he was
to know absolutely the worth of mine
| of his own knowledge, he must have more
| of a technical education than he possess
| ed. AS he never relied on anybody's
! Judgment but his own i'm going into any
| enterprise, he determined to know some
| thing of mining engineering. During the
winers of 1S72-'73 and 1S73'H he studied
| at the Columbia School of Mines.
With the knowledge thus acquired he
| went back to Montana bought more
mines, erected stamp mills on his silver
| properties, and made other acquisitions
| in Idaho and Arizona In the latter ter
| ritory he discovered the United Verde
copper mine, which is now reckoned the
| richest copper mine in the world, and
| Anaconda and Mountain View not eX-
| cepted. Besides his mining properties
| and his banking interests, Mr.. Clarke,
| concluding that there was money in re-
filming sugar, bought a sugar refinery in
| Los Alamos, Cal, and then, coming to
| the East, he concluded to add wire making
! to his other interests, and built the Wa
| clarck Wire Works, of Elizabethport N. j.
| Then he built and operated a system of
water works in Butte, established an cleo
trio light plant and built all the cable
| and electric railways in Butte.
| Rise of Marcus DAILY.
Marcus DAILY iS a wondrous character
! He found himself a boyish waif from Ire
| land at the California coast at the age of
| 10. Nature had granted him fine
constitution and good, common sense. He
| did not hunt around hopelesSly for fancy
| jobs but took the first thing that offered
a mode of livelihood After a little he
| drifted to Nevada and was employed
| around the great mines of Virginia City,
| where he, became a practical miner, and
! grew thoroughly familiar with the in
| trinsic mysteries of mineralogy About
| 1878 he came to Butte, and was mainly in
| strumenta1 in selecting and securing the
| great copper and silver mines for the
Anaconda company of which he is now
| general manager. His wealth Is very
1
| of it.
In person Mr.. DAILY is middle-sized and
trinity built He has a pleasant, intel
| lctual face, fresh colored, and his keen,
| flashing eyes are now shaded by gold
| trimmed glasses. Not a trace of Irish ac-
| cent remains in his speech, unless when
he grows vehement or becomes really ex-
| cited.
| Like all men of strong will and decided
| character, Mr.. Daily has his enemies
| chiefly political. But his bitterest enemy
| will not deny his wonderful ability as a
| man of affairs. While uniformly kind and
mainly just to his employees, he never for
| gets dereliction of duty, and he keeps as
| sharp an eye on the minutiae of mining
| work to-day as he did when he was a
1 young struggling overseer twenty years
| ago No man In the employ of the Ana
| conda company knows when Marcus Daily
! may drop in upon him, whether in the
| womb of the earth, at the bottom of a
| shaft or casting up his accounts in the
| office on the hill. Those who love Mr.
| DAILY, and they are many, call him, in his
| absence, "The Old Man" Those who have
| a grudge against him speak of him as
| Mr. Daily" Those who admire and are
at the same time a little jealous of him
| call him also in his absence the Marquis
| of Butte"-a play, of course, on his Chris
| tan name.
| DAILY is well known throughout the coun-
| III Of If ba
| horses in America. His colors have he
| come familiar on all the great race
| courses Two seasons ago they were
| borne TO victory in the Suburban handi-
| can by his wonderful colt Montana His
| horse farm in the Bitter Root Valley in
! the treasure state" is stocked with the
| finest eduines that money will buy.
Carter Case stiII Under Review.
| washington Correspondent New York
Herald, Jan. 81.
Col. Thomas F. Barr, who was Judge