The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-05-23
JOHN D. RYAN At HOME
old FRIENDS TRIBUTE
AiRPlANE BUILDER AND PRESl
DENT OF ANACONDA EVERY
INCH A MAN.

The appointment of John d. Ryan
president of the Anaconda Copper
Mining company, to take charge of the
aircraft construction, has brought the
following letter from Homer A. Guck
editor of the Houghton, Mich, Ga
zette, published in Mr.. Ryan's native
: city and where he grew to manhood
The letter was addressed to the New
York Sun:
Our John D.
Here in the copper country of Mich
igan the people picked up the morn
ing paper and read the news from
Washington that John ID. Ryan had
been appointed director of air plants
He's our John D. Ryan. have known
him personally since childhood He
is one of Gods own. They don't make
many like him. He's a great man in
the world Of finance and business to-
day. But he never comes to Houghton
without climbing the six flights of
stairs to my little editorial room on
the top floor of the Gazette building
He's the same John Ryan to us now
as he was when we were boys And
he Is young man today.
The news on our front page this
morning made it look to me that John
Ryan had been picked for one of the
two most important jobs connected
with the home work of the war. That's
why ! thought something of the per-
sOnality of the man as ] know him
might be worth reading. Next to the
ship building job there is the arplane
job. And Ryan will put the pep in the
airplane job AS Charles Schwab is
putting it into the ship building job,
John Ryans father was a mining
captain for the Calumet & Heca in
the early days of that property. Later
he actually discovered the copper lode
on the south side of Portage river
later developed into the Baltic, one of
the two richest copper mines of the
copper range corporation. Young
John Ryan worked in his Uncle Ed
Ryan's store in Hancock when | knew
him first. Then he got a job selling
oilfor the Standard Oil company. Ul-
timately he became western manager
for the Standard, with headquarters
in Denver. Then he came home and
married one of Houghton's most de-
lightful girls.
Ryan's travels took him to Butte.
He tried to sell the Amalgamated
Copper company Old man DAILY, Mar
Gus DAILY of the famous Daly-Clark
stories, liked Ryan, but he didn't like
the Standard Oil for some reason or
other. Come to me representing
some other oil company and you can
have all the business l can turn over
to YOU" said Marcus Daily. And Ryan
came back representing the Crew
Levick company, And he did sell the
oil.
Likewise he and Marcus Daily be-
came close friends. When Marcus
Daily died Mr.. Ryan was made a di-
rector of the DAILY Trust and Banking
interests in Butte. He looked after
the enormous estate of this great
copper magnate.
I might diverge here and tell the
story of the two miners, William A.
Clark and Marcus Daily, who dscov-
cred the Anaconda silver mine, later
made it over into a great copper mine,
later got into row with one another.
might ring in the Heinze rumpus
and all that.
All remember what Tom Lawson
did to the Amalgamated Copper COM
pany in the greatest undertaking job
the country ever saw. The Daily in
terests were the largest shareholders
in the company.
Just when things were at their
worst John Ryan was made Butte