Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-09-20

blood yarn seriously and arranged Wit,
an engraVer to have her stationGr7,
adorned with royal crest. SOM NJ
MS descendants seem to have taken il
seriously also for they sign their names
Win numerals, as befitS the members
of a house royal
This royalty nonsense. of course
must nave made Marcus Days moth
er, Mary Coyle DAILY of Ballyiamesduff
Derrylea. turn over in her grave quite
regularly, for wasn't she descendant
of a long line OF rebels a peasant
family that had devoted no small
amount OF time to downing rOyalty9
Marcus father, Luke DAILY. was also
no loyalist, but of all Marcus 10 broth
erS. and sisters only one. Miss Honore
DAILY. devoted herself seriously to the
rebel cause. She was a doughty spin
Ster who was continually in hot water
with the British constabulary. who suS-
pected her OF harbOring rebel fugitiyes.
and in 1921 her residence, a gift from
Marcus. was burned to the ground BY
English troops. Even that could not
dampen her rebel ardor and she con-
tinued to aid and abet the Irish ma
tionalist cause until her death in 1926.
She was the only one of Marcus
brothers and sisters who did not fol-
low him to America to share his
| largeSS.
Worked at Odd Jobs
! Marcus DAILY was Is years old when
! he landed in New York city. and he
stayed there until he was 20. During
that period he worked at anything
/ that came his way He was for time
telegraph messenger, later long
shoreman. The latter was hard work
I but the wages were good for the time
and he was able to save up enough
money to travel west
| In California, Marcus worked as q
laborer on farms and ranches until he
fell in with Thomas Murray. that same
Thomas Murray who was for years a
! fixture as yard superintendent at the
smelter in Anaconda. After DAILY be-
came a mining king there was always
job for Murray because it was he
I who had pursuaded DAILY to try his
luck in the mining game. Il was Mu--
ray who suggested that they quit the
ranches and go TO CalaveraS county
made in placer mining. The two young
men built themselves a cabin and
! spent several years working for other
miners and in doing some prospecting
4 on their own. During that period Mar
Gus was a part Of the frontier life OF
the Mother Lode COuntry-that from
tier life that men like Marx Twain
/ bTGI f1dI lt anu JOAQUIN NL4A4Cl WI I
to make immortal in prose and poetry
Perhaps Marcus knew the original
"Outcasts OF Poker Flat perhaps he
was there the day Mark Twain go:
the original inspiration for his Jump
ing Frog" story.
Neither Maycu; DAILY nor Thomas
Murray got rich in Ca!averas county
but Marcus was on his way. He had
seen what riches a man could make II
he hit it lucky and he had a peculiar
genius for geology. He left CalaVeras
county to go to the booming Coh5Ioch
Lode country OF which Virginia CITY
New, was the capital. There he hao
the good fortune % get work with the
two leading mIna operators, George
Hearst and J. B. Iaggin. II was ABOUT
the time that Marcus met nm tNa'
George Hearst passed around the cigars
to announce the birth OF his only cAl!o
Willie, who was to make newspaper
history during stormy career mat
now drawing to q close.
Walker Bros, bankers of Salt Lake
CITY, heard aboIt Days work foi
Hearst and Haggn and they offered
him more money TO come ana VOTE
for them. They heard rumoES OF rlcE
mines in Montana and hired Marcus
to be their agent That was IN 1871
and in 1872 Marcus married Miss Mar
garet Evans of Salt Lake Cl;y.
The Walkers sent Marcus TO Walker
vile, Mont, to inspect several Sl4Vei
properties. which he was to buy II ne
considered them of value. One OF tlrese
was the historic Alice mine ana Mar
Gus purchased it for 5000, keeping a
one-fifth intereS. for himself. A year
later he sold his interest for s3o,ooo.
Made Systematic Survey
At this point DAILY was ready TO take
his profit, more money than he hac
ever expected to have at one time
and return to California, for Butte dic
not promise to be an outstanding
silver camp. However. before leaving
he decided to make a systematic m
spection of all the properties in the
Butte district It was while doing tnE
that he ran across the Hickey broth
ers, Edward and Daniel, who had man
aged to sink a 65-foot shaft IN tneli
claim but could nos go farther pc,
cause they had run out OF money. II
was known as the Anaconda mine anc
DAILY bought it for $4,000. He knew
he had a good property but he dldn
think it was going 10 turn OUT 10 OF
the greatest copper mine the "or4C
has ever known.
To raise funds to develop the Ana
conda. Marcus went TO his OLD en-
ployers, Hearst and Haggin. With them
and one other party named Tevls, ne
formed the Anaconda Mining Co. HI
was still interested in his property only