The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-04

It is said Of w. A. Clark, miner
banker and politician Of Butte. Mon
tana, that every penny Of his many
millions has been actually earned. 1t
is said Of him that he never speculates.
keeps fast horses or steam yachts; but
he owns. controls and personally man.
ages II big enterprises.
BY the purchase of a granite quarry in
Maine, Senator w. A. Clark Of Montana,
king of all copper kings, manufacturer.
banker, publisher sugar refiner, rubber
grower, railroad builder. lumber oper-
ator. coal miner and many. many times
a millionaire, has completed a chain Of
industries from Maine to California, ana
from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian
border.
Up in North Jay. Me-. he has bought
and equipped quarry with 10000 tons
of beautiful white granite in sight, he
says.
Away off across the continent, in
southern California, 5000 miles away. he
owns a monster range of countless acres,
devoted to beet sugar raising.
On the Gulf of Mexico he owns another
big range of 10000 acres, devoted to the
growth Of rubber trees and coffee.
Thousands of miles north, in the state
Of Montana. he owns mines. banks, real
estate, street railways, lumber mills and
many other things, besides being a
United States senator.
Between these four points of the COM
pass Senator Clark is the active head OF
various Industries of his own creating.
Now, as matter of fact none of these
Industries are little affairs, but are great,
big projects, full of life and swelling
profits.
Any one of them would be all an aver
age man could safely and profitably
carry on. Indeed, 90 out Of every 100
men, it is thought likely. would fail.
How One millionaire Succeeds.
Yet Senator Clark succeeds. He runs
his beat sugar industry just as profit
ably and intelligently as he does his
parent Understanding.
No record Of failure has ever been en-
tered against him. Everything he has
taken hold Of has resulted in great and
undivided profits.
For Senator Clark is not head or a
part Of a combine or corporation. He
himself is the head, the heart, the SOUL
the creator, the director and general
superintendent.
He is a master of details, a systema-
tier, and therein, he says, lies the Sc
cret of his successful business career.
Men who know both say w. A. Clark
is head and shoulders above j. Pierpont
Morgan as a business man. Clark Gre
ates industries; Morgan formulates
combines to absorb created industries.
Clark alone runs his mighty business;
Morgan doesn't. No mind but the Sen
ators from Montana is recognized in his
affairs. No board of directors pass upon
his ideas. He is the whole thing. 1t
~1,3&yo ETxyor ha q
! connected with has it's board of direct
ors. They conceive ideas, too, as we'll as
Morgan, and nurse them as tenderly.
No plan can be carried out without
their approval.
Senator Clark Is a very democratic
sort Of a man. He has the faculty. he
told the writer, Of adapting himself to
all kinds Of travelling and living. And
he's absolutely tireless.
To give one an idea Of this fact, the
senator's trip to Maine last week can be
taken as an illustration. He left New
York at midnight, sleeping on the train.
Arriving here he went to Young's hotel
for breakfast. Then he took the $3.50
express to Portland, Me. This gave him
three hours at the latter city to inspect
his stone cutting establishment. on the
water front. In the middle of the after
arriving there about dark.
At Home in Blacksmith's Cottage.
There is no hotel in the town where
his quarry is located. but Senator CLARK
felt quite comfortable al the homa Ut Che
village blacksmith, who put him up for
the night.
The multi millionaire was astir early
and at the quarry at o'clock. Before
noon he was on his way to Boston.
But during the short time he remained
at the quarry he had mastered the gem
eral details of the work and directed GER
tain changes to remedy flaws which his
, quick eye had readily perceived. Z
Every piece of granite IS cut to fit a
certain place in the growing New York
mansion. The quarrymen have the
architects plans to go by and each piece
of granite is numbered to correspond
with the number in the specifications.
Thus the entire product of this quarry
is devoted to the erection of the great
palace in New York.
The quarry yields beautiful white
granite of a kind unlike any other in
the world.
One hundred skilled quarrymen with
compressed air drills carve out huge
slices of this pure granite. each slice
Seventy-five skilled stone cutters re-
ceive the granite at Portland and chip
the slices into dressed condition.
Then the dressed slices are wrapped in
bagging, garnished with Stats and
shipped by train or boat to New York.
Senator Clark waited nearly two years
for a certain firm to furnish the granite
and then brushed them aside, bought
quarry adjoining the procrastinatine
company's work and equipped 1t HIM
self.
Senator Refused to Be "Squeezed"
1t is said that the quarry owners
formed a combine for the purpose Of
raising the price of granite and marked
Senator Clark as the "angel' who would
pay the freight
But the millionaire from the north
west stood out and nearly caused q
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