New Britain herald., 1925-03-03
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1925

dsrground, occupied the courts of Montana almost to the exclusion of all other litigation and at last estab- lished the apex" principle as the mining law Of America, 2'.ose- quently the Heinze and Daly inter- osts were merged and the conflict came to an end.
 MT, clark's property holdings al this time extended from Montana to Southern Mexico and to France. They included the United Verde copper mine at Jerome, Arizona, a beet sugar factory. bronze factory, steam and street railway system, mining mills, timber lands, wire fac- tory, power plants, business blocks and mercantile establishments in several cities and banks and resi- dences in New York. Paris and Butte, Mont.
 First Mill at Butte.
 Tn 1876 he built what was said to be the first silver, stamp mill in Butte, making the erstwhile mining camp, for the time being, the great est silver producer in America. Thir- ty-five years later he helped make Butte one of the worlds principal zinc camps. What has been called the magic transformation" of Butte from gold camp to silver camp, silver to copper and then merging to copper and zinc with its by-products of gold. silver lead and manganese, has been attributed to Clark's genius as much as to any other factor.
 An example of his determination and persistence was afforded when, through his friendship with the late Senator Thomas Kearns of Utah, he became interested in the construction of the San Pedro. Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad, a short cut line from Salt Lake Valley to Los Ange- les. Clark financed it personally and owned more than 50 per cent of the stock. Just after the road was com pleted, floods washed out great sec tions of the roadbed, entailing a loss of s16,0oo,00o. Realizing the possi- bilities of the line in building up Ne vada, Utah and California, he poured his wealth a second time into the en- terprise and reconstructed the rail- road.
 During the Neg Perce Indian up- rising of 1888, Clark organized a battalion of, volunteers and, as its major. helped to quell the trouble. He was president of the constitu- tional conventions of Montana in 1884 and 1889 and was state com from Montana to the New Orleans Cotton Exposition in 1884.
 Large Picture Gallery
 A devotee of golf, which he learn ed to play after his f1ftieth year, Senator Clark's other hobbies were art and philanthropy. He owned large picture gallery including six panels of Beauvais tapestries illus trating the principal events in the life of Joan of Arc. alone worth s7oO.OoO.
 : One of his gifts to the city of Butte was a public park known as Columbia Gardens" Another was the Paul Clark Home. a refuge for poor and crippled children, built in memory of son who died in child hood. In Los Angeles. Senator Clark built the Mary Andrews Clark Home for Working Girls in honor of his mother. In New York he main- aimed a kindergarten school named for one of his other children who lied, early in life.
 In March. 1869, Senator Clark married Miss Kate L. Stauffer of Pa, They had six children four of whom, Charles W. Clark of San Mateo, Cal; W. A. Clark. Jr., of Butte, Mont. and Mrs. King and Mrs. Dr. Morris. both of New York, were living in 1919.
 Mrs. Clark died October IS, 1893 and several years later Senator Clark married Miss Anna LaCha- belle. Two daughters, Andree and were born of this mar riage.