The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-10


dig anything, said Daily, and he set to
work. with such vigor that in few days
he had the farmers potatoes in the barn
and some dollars in his pocket. AS soon
as he got enough money to pay his way,
he was up in the mountains. He made
the acquaintance of the famous synd1-
cate, Mackay, Fair, Flood and O'Brien,
entered their employ, and worked his way
TO superintendent of the Comstock llde.
He did not share any of the profits of
that famous property, but he studied the
mine, and in remarkably short time
became an expert
Days plan for finding cut the real
value of the Alice mine in Montana was
a characteristic piece of work:
''He went TO Butte city, claimed TO b.
looking for work as a miner, and ran up
d bill for three weeks board. The land
ICfd became angry. He went up to Walk
crville and told the mine owners that he
had man loafing around at his place for
whom he wanted work long enough to
pay his three weeks board bill. They
gave him the job and he came back and
particular about his work and too easy
about his eating. He said he had got
him another job and that he wanted him
to take it and sick to it. AS Daily heard
him say that the work was in the Alice
mine his heart must have jumped, bat
there was not change in his features,
look at it. 1t was the opportunity he
had waited for and he took his place as
an ordinary miner IN the Al ce He work
ed for three weeks, inspecting the prop
erty as he dug and mined, and at the end
of this time he threw Up MS job and left
quite city. Six weeks later he came to
the surface as manager of the p opecty.
The Walkers, at his advice, bought the
mine, and they put him at its head
DAILY was only twenty-three years old
when the stories of the riches hidden IN
the soil of Montana took him to that
state:
Soon after he helped form a mining
combination, composed of ]. B. Haggin'
George Hearst Lloyd Trevis and himself.
Daly was Lhc active, practical man. It
was Daly who suggested the purchase If
the Anaconda mine, near Butte City,
believing that it promised we'll in gold
a az SILVER. The mine was bought for
go, tog. Before long copper veins were
ore-qUarter of all the copper mined in
the worlo;; 1t employs 10000 men, anu re-
dOces 1900 tons every day"
1t was when Daily began to develop the
Anaconda on an immense scale that the
trouble with w. A. Clark originated:
water was a necessity at the smeiters
OF the Anaconda, and Daily was buying
me water rights of Warm Springs creek,
ana had got about seVen-eighths of them
Tor some small amount, when Clark
Quietly came in and bought the remaining
eighth. When Daily sent his representa-
ia
UUo Tor It, which the representative re-
FUSED to give, and went away. Next day
ne came back to accept the figures, and
Clark wanted $50,G00. Daily a day or two
later sent his man back to pay the price
and then Clark wanted $780, coo. This was
offered next, and Clark asked $125, 900, at
which price DAILY got it. DAILY sWore to
get even, and be made good mis- oath.
fight
He waited I7aar q ftnr yaor fO, n
to strike:
In 1888 Clark decided that he would go
TO Washington, as congressional delegate,
Atontana then being a territory. He did
Days enmitY for him. He sent a dele
cation of friends to talk the matter over
with DAILY. The Republican candidate for
the office was Thomas II. Carter
According to the story, Carter and
DAILY We're comforting when the delegation
arrived Daily told Carter to step behind
a curtain. The delegation made its talk
III behalf of Clark, and DAILY is alleged
to have replied: I hate Clark from the
ground up, but L am Democrat first,
last and all the time. I'll tell the mine
bosses to see that the men vote TO bury
that little red-headed Irish son-of-a-gun.
Tom Carter, in the middle kettle of
had had The, delegation left, delighted,
and Carter left, bewildered Mr. DaIv
left for California the next day. and wha9
election day arrived every man in the
Anaconda mines voted for Carter de-
featlnS Clark, who had counted upon an
easy victory.
Aside from Days copper mines ana
his war with w. A. Clark, he was best
known through his magnificent racirg
stable. He literally ransacked the earth
for high-class horses for breeding pur-
poses. He purchased 1900 acres Of land
III the Bitter Root valley, many miles
out from Butte, and established the Bitter
Root stock farm, which has produced
some of the greatest racers on1hc Amer
lean turf. In the past fifteen years he
spent $4OC0,GC0 on the place. The system
Oh irrigation alone cost $3500OO Seven
hundred men are employed on the prop
erty, the cottages which DaIv butif for
them forming little village.