The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-02-16


ne owed. and give him his cheek
for the debts and enough over t.
start him on his feet again. His do
nations to the churches of all denomi
nations must have aggregated half a
million dollars in the last ten years
No one but his private secretal y
ever knew just what he did give away
Still another form of generosity
was shown by him. He had many
mining claims of value that he had
not the time personally to look at
ter or develop He would turn these
over to- the deserving men and allow.
them to extract ore until they had
taken out enough of the precious
metals to make snug fortune of $685..
900 or $4,000, sometimes 100000. He
thus helped his impecunious friends
and developed the mines whose rich.
ness would merely be uncovered il
this way. If the venture proved un-
profitable he bore the loss himself
and gave his friends all the chances.
have often heard his miners say
they would give their right arm for
Daly-nOt so much for what he had
done for them, but because, with all
his power he had never used it to
Cypress them. Many amusing stor-
les are told of how he used to be pes
tered by appeals for generosity by
those who were unworthy but whom
he could not refuse. When he was
in Butte he was in the mines all day
and had room in the general Office
building of the company on the top
OF the hill where he slept and where
he was difficult of access. He rarely
came into the city and then only to
get around to the offices of the vari-
GUS enterprises in which he was in
terested. He retired to his room on
the hill early in the evening and was
down in the mines with the break of
day. He knew every foot of his
mines, down in the underground lev
els and slopes, covering miles upon
miles of workings, 1000 and some.
times 1000 feet below the surface.
His mind was shrewd, keen and
where experts in their own lines
could not see them. He was in the
east when he gave directions to his
engineers to commence the erection of
the great smelling plant at Anaconda.
Win he returned he found the foun-
dations already begun. The engin-
GERS had laid ont the ground on the
level. He went out to the work and
Immediately called his engineers to-
gether. In all smelling plants there
must be ample ground for a dump for
the refuse from the copper ore, which
is called Stag. In year or two the
operations of large smelter will pro-
duce mountain of Stag. where are
you going to put your dump, gentle
mem" sententiously inquired Daily.
Are you going to hoist it in a boil
loon?" The engineers Immediately
saw their error, ceased operations, and
commenced the excavations on the
mountain side, from whence the Stag
| could be dumped to the base below.
He also ran flues up to the mountain
tops, where the strong air currents
carried off the arsenic and sulphur
fumes from the smelters, so that
the inhabitants of Anaconda might
not suffer from the smoke nuisance,
which at certain seasons of the year
has proved a disagreeable feature of
life in Butte.
He was an aggressive fighter. He
used to say that every man had to
do so much fighting in order to pre-
serve his health. He would never be
imposed upon. He had the uncon-
querable spirit of a Richelieu. He
did not belong to that race of power
ty-stricken and superior men who, as
BalZac says can do everything for
the fortunes of others and nothing
for their own. He was not an Alal.
din who would let other men borrow
his lamp. When he built his smeltcr
in Anaconda. he made contract with
the Montana Union railroad to haul
his ore from the Butte mines, 80 miles
away. The contract expired some
years after. DAILY felt that he was
simply paving fat dividends to the
stockholders of the railroad; in fact
was making their living for them, and
asked for reasonable reduction in
rates. The company refused, know.
ing DAILY was at their mercy: there
was no other road over which he could
haul his ore. They never dreamed
that he would do what he did do. At
immense cost to himself, he closed
down his mines, and at the end of six
months he had built and equipped a
road far superior to the Montana