The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-12
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And eHOw Marcus DaIy Was Roped
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7.
 F. A. oFarrell contributes to the Butte Reveille an interesting article headed How Marcus Daily was Roped into Arna1gamated.' o'Farrell says:
 In Lawson's revelations there is noth- ing new He tells how Marcus Daly sold the control of the Anaeonda for twenty-four million dollars, and tells that the trimmings of Anaconda, that is the company stores, coal mines and newspapers with the Colorado and Par- rot cost fifteen million dollars. As a matter of fact Franklin Farrell sold out for about four million dollars, and the Colorado cost $2,250,00O, and the Ana conda trimmings were included in the twenty-four. million dollars. When Lawson says that the ground floor price of the first flotation of Amalgamated was thirty mine million dollars he him. self is mistaken. It did not cost Rog- CTS and Rockefeller thirty-two million dollars.
 Lawsor's tale about the hidden wealth of Anaconda is also very inter- esting. Briefly told, 1t means that there were in 1899 ore bodies in the An aeonda mines of fabulous extent and richness, but that the great rich ore bodies had been carefully put out of sight by Marcus Daily. He had put them out of sight and blocked them tight in order that the prying eyes of Hamilton Smith and other Rothschild experts might not know of their price, less value. Lawson strives to convey the idea that Daly was concealing the existence of these hidden veins from J. , B. Haggin himself. Daly alone knew, he says, the secret of those hidden treasures. Jack O'Neil had spent long years exploring and developing ore bod ies in the Anaconda mines, but not even Jack O'Neil knew the wonderful rich ore chutes that Daly had blocked out and hidden away Tn fact Daly had them so securely hidden away that Jack O'Neil or nobody else has been able to find them since. The secret of their location Marcus Daly carried with him to the grave. He told Tom Lawson and H. H. Rogers all about those won- derful hidden ore bodies. But he told them, too, how he was growing old, how his health was shattered, and that to save his life he would have to place the burden of the Anaconda on some other shoulders, and Rogers and Tom Lawson. fascinated by this tale of boundless hidden treasure, undertook to relieve Marcus Daly of the burden of the Anaconda for twenty-four million dollars. A year or two before Daly and Haggin had offered to sell the same burden to the Rothschllds for ten mill lion dollars
 In fact Daly fascinated Rogers so completely with his story of hidden treasure that he agreed to pay Daly twenty-four million dollars for con- trolling interest in the Anaeonda with out the formality of getting an engineer or an expert or an accountant to make him a report. Not in the history of the world is there a parallel to the trade made by Daly with Rogers for the An accnda.
 Lawson's explanation of this trade is that Marcus Daly revealed to Rogers and himself all about the hidden bo- manga ore chutes which even Jack O'Neil and J. B. Haggin did not know. It is impossible to tell now how far Iawson's tale is the coinage of his brain, or of his wild inaginings when listening to the Golconda yarns of Mar GUS Daly.