The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-24

decision of Senator William A. Clark to
build at some central point a new cop
per Smelter and refinery. The exact To-
cation has not yet been determined, but
1t Is known that during the past month
Mr.. ClarkS engineers and surveyors have
visited different available sites and in
vestigated the facilities afforded. They
have examined the claims Of Great Falls
Livingston and the Mill creek site, and
by this time the results of their investi-
cations are in the hands Of the senator
It is understood that decision will be
reached in a short time; in any event,
before he goes to Washington to take
up the duties of the senatorship.
The enterprise means much for the
state. Mr.. Clark is an independent oper-
atOr in copper. He is not in the trust,
and what Is more the trust can neither
coerce nor brighten him into coming in
or making conditions with that company
Mr.. Clark is master of the copper sltua-
ton.
With that comprehensive foresight
for which he has long been noted among
the leading bushes men and financiers
of the United States, Mr.. Clark has re-
allied that the west and the Orient are
to be the most profitable fields for the
American copper operator. His mines
and shelters are in the west. his re-
fineries in New Jersey. From this lat
ter point the copper wire of commerce is
shipped to the markets in all parts of the
world. But Mr. Clark long ago realized
the loss involved in shipping copper
matte to New Jersey and then shipping
the Wire back to California and on to
the Orient. Hence, he determined that
as soon as he could get around 20 it he
u IL
and from the site chosen would supply
the copper market tributary to his west
ern refinery from that plant and also
ship direct to China. Japan and all
Oriental countries.
ITO carry this vast enterprise into
effect is the purpose of Mr. Clark's
present investiga tions with reference to
an available site for the gigantic works
which will grow up rapidly when the To-
cation has been determined upon. For
tunate, indeed. will be the section of
Montana selected. Not only locally will
the vast enterprise be of Importance, but
it will mean much to the whole state.
AS is we'll known. there is no limit to the
amount of copper Mr.. Clark's mines will
produce. AS the copper market expands.
the production of mines will increase.
and the new smelter and refinery will
be enlarged. In a few years new In
dustrial settlement large as city will
be added to the population of Montana.
Senator Clark has not arrived at this
decision hastily. AS is his custom, he
has applied to the subject the intensest
thought of his mind. His recognized
mastery of details has been exercised,
and his powers of generalization en-
ployed. The world wide bearings Of the
undertaking have been considered-the
consuming capacity of the western
states when further settled and the home
of teeming millions. as we'll as the needs
Of the innumerable host of the Orient as
they develop into the stature of civili-
cation.
Having gone over these grounds time
and again, and exhausted all sources of
information, Senator Clark has decided
to establish the browning enterprise of
his phenomenal career among the people
whom he has lived almost all the
days of his active life. In this is seen
the answering loyalty he has shown to
Montana since his arrival in the gulch
in the southwestern part of the state in
the early '60's. The decision is cause for
rejoicing all over the state.e