The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-05
ROMANCE ABOUNDS IN BUTTE, MONTANA People Are PIungersand Wealth
 is Plentiful PAT" MULLINS IS MAYOR Daly Clark and HeInze Have Made the Town Famous by Their Golden Explolts-Helnze
 Is the Brightest.
PAT" MULLINS IS MAYOR


 Since four prospectors from Nevada struck Butte, little more than 40 years ago, miners have dug from the mountain side on which Butte stands nearly s50O,- 100000 worth of gold. silver and copper more than has come from any other camp In the world. It Is not strange then that John D. Rockefeller and Henry H. Ro- gers have their names linked with this city of riches. In Butte three mining magnates have made their fortunes-Mar- GUS Daly, Senator ". A. Clark and Au- gust Heinze
 But why do they call Butte the earthly realm of satan? Chiefly because roasting ores give off fumes of sulphur. This smoke-the color of watered milk-some- times gets as thick as a London fog. It kills all vegetation. Not one green leaf ever flutters in Butte; nor does a sprig of grass grow there. Bleak indeed, are the rolling masses of sand and rock over which Mary McLane trod while waiting for the coming of the devil.''
 To this place, so barren of verdure yet so fruitful in rich metals, the winds of fortune have blown people from every cline. If I were to write here the df- ferent birthplaces of the people of Butte and it has 50000 inhabitants-at space rates this paper would pay me a months house rent. Not one of the 23,000 miners of Butte earns less than $3.50 a day, and they all spend their money like prodigal sons. In the old open gambling days not long gone by, have seen drill-drivers wearing flannel shirts bet stacks of sil- yer and gold slugs with the recklessness of royal rakes at Monte Carlo.
 The people are all phngers. once saw two men come up to a cigar case. Let's shake the box" said one. As they lit there cigars, the other asked: How much do you want for that mine, anyway" '"Thirty-five thousand was the answer Give you s25,OoO," said the other. Wont take $25000," replied his friend, but I'll just shake dice whether you give me s25,0Oo or $5O,oOO." "All right. first flop or horses?' First flop" came back the answer. They each rolled the dice out only once, The man who lost wrote his check for $50.O0O with a lead pencil.
 The first morning I was ever in Butte some years ago I got a shave and a shine I gave the barber a quarter and told him to keep the change. He took the money and did not thank me. To the hrl1y boy ! gave a dime. He looked at the little coin a moment and then up at me- saying; You aint been heah long, is you boss? A shine ou' chere is two bits, sah."
 Butte's Mayor, "Pat" Mullins.
 The mayor of Butte is the Hon. Pat rick Mullins. Years ago Pat, as every body calls him, ran a boarding house in the camp. Once the mines shut down. Some of Pats boarders got out of money. He rose up in the dining room one morn- ing and made a speech.
 "Bys" said he, they've shut down the mines and. some of yez is out of dough. But, I'll tell yez yeve sthuck to Pat whin we've had the stuff, and now Pat will sthick to yez. Olive got two carloads of pertates and one cair-load of hams in the cillar. As long as they's a spud and a pace of malt lift ye can ate wid me. Pay whin ye git the coin"
 So when Pats party were afraid of losing the election they put him up for mayor. As one of the miners said to me "He won hands down."
 Soon after taking his oath of office It was the duty of the mayor to welcome President Roosevelt, who visited Butte The mayor put on his first dress suit At a banquet, as soon as the guests sat down the mayor arose, rapped on the table and said: "Gintlemin, Oi will in throdooce to yez a mon who maids no in- throdooction. He's the hayrow of San tyaigo. Bys do the waiters). bring on the grub"
 Trio of Mining Men.
 The history of Butte is the history of its three great mining men-Daly, Clarke and Heinze. Let me illustrate the char acter of these men. Daly was playing poker one night In a Butte club. Another in the game was a man of small means. Daily held four aces and drew one card, The other drew one card also and made a king full"
 "Bet $500" said the man with the full. 'I,ll see the $500 and raise ye a white chip" said Daily: "but, my friend. don't raise me. for I've got ye bait" The Ilr checks on the table for 5000. Had he lost he would have been a ruined man. Daily knew this
 And what have ye gotg' said Daly, seeing the raise "A king full" replied the other player, raking In the money. Its good. Jerry said Daly throwing down his winning hand, thinking no one had seen 1t.
 Clark. they tell, after being shaved, handed the barber a quarter. Your son always gives me a dollar" said the bar Der. He can afford to- answered the senator. Hes got a rich father"
 That man Heinze." said a gentleman to me, lis the greatest plunger that ever struck Butte. Why, do you know, I saw him playing poker the other night and he would always flip a $20 gold piece to see whether or not he should call a raise"
 These are the characters of the men: Alois was ScneTOuSI GldTK IS cdfeIuli Heinze gambles to ses~which way he shall gamble.
 Born In Ireland. Marcus Daily when 15 came to America, working first at Brook lyn as dock hand. Later he went tC California, where he did placer mining Haggin and Tevis, mining men of 'Fris. co, sent him to Utah. Here he met tho Walker brothers. who had him go tc Butte in 1876 to inspect the old Alice min, Daly went into Butte carrying a blanke on his back; he died worth s15O0OOO
 They tell that after selling his share ir the Alice. Daily went in with Haggin anc Tevis and bought the Anaconda. The Californians sent an expert to look al the mine. This man said it was worth. less, and started back to San Francisco to make his report. Da1y was out o, money, but he himself and few faith. ful men kept digging. They struck rict ore Daly borrowed money and got z horse, He sent a messenger to Frisco with new ore samples. "Ride this horse until he drops; then get another" said Daly. Bait that d-d expert to Cali fornia." Dalys man got there first Haggin and Tevis put in more money Thus, they say was started the Anaconda mine. which the Daily company sold ir 1899 to the Amalgamated copper company for s33.000,000.
 DaIys Money Came Easily.
 Daly's money came to him easily: il went the same way. He was broad gauged Anaconda. where he built his smelter. needed a hotel; Daly built fine