THE MOUNTAINEER Two Southerners Discover d "The Richest Hill On E rth," Greatest Minin(C. Center in Americ

entertaining metropolis. After a few old Hickey claims near the top of it was really his finish. He was driven Butte's Rise from Fron- days they purchased supplies and Butte Hill. Experts said he was crazy out of Butte and the United Copper Co. horses and returned to their new dig- because the ledge was merely broken he later organized, failed. His last tier Mining Camp to gings. litunphrey and Allison were rock and not a vein. Daly thought dif- years were spent as a mineral prop- Butte's two first settlers. However, they ferently. He bought the Anaconda and erties promoter of little importance. World's Richest Cop- were not the first miners to prospect the Neversweat claims from Mike Marcus Daly died in 1900 after an ex- on "The Richest Hill on Earth." When Hickey for $30,000.00. Daly needed citing life as a sportsman, stable- they arrived on the site of present-day money to develop his claims and he 'owner and father-in-law of European per City Due to Vision Butte, Humphrey and Allison found a went to Hearst, Haggin and Tevis, his nobility. Senator Clark died 25 years prospect hole four or five feet deep. old employers. By this time William later and three years after his demise and Courage of Early Nearby were elk horns, which had evi- Clark recognized that he had a for- his vast holdings were ac- dently been used in digging. From in- midable rival in Marcus Daly and it quired from his heirs by the Anaconda Settlers. dications the two men decided that the has been said that he tried to discredit company. hole had been dug many years before. Daly with Senator Hearst. Whether he It was Daly's vision which started telling. By WALTZ* ED TAYLOR Who dug it, there is no way of did or not was never definitely de- Butte on the road to mining fame. To- Virginia City was in the height Others had seen the hole before Al- cided but it is known that he made a of its gold excitement in May, 1864, ! lison and Humphrey. One Caleb E. lifelong enemy of Daly. In 1881 Daly, when two prospectors left there, 'Irvine, transporting goods from Fort Hearst, }leggin and Tevis formed the heading westward in search of a Benton to Fort Owen in the Bitter Anaconda Silver Mining Co. and start- valley, prospect to new bonanza—one they might call Root passed the old ed sink into the big vein. their own. These two hardy gold hole in 1860. No doubt many others I At the 100-foot level a narrow seam seekers were G. 0. Ilumphrey and had seen this ancient mine. I of "Copper Glance" ore was uncovered William Allison. G. 0. Humphrey So it came about that in the last year It ran 30 percent copper. On the 200- Y. was a native of Todd county, Ky., of the Civil war, when Sherman was. foot level it w,as just as rich and just and his family had migrated, a making his famous march to the sea; as narrow, but at the 300-foot level few years before his birth, from before the grading of the Pacific rail- the copper ore was five feet wide.' Charlottesville, Va. As a boy road had been started at Council Daly made a few experimental ship- Humphrey heard much of the story Bluffs; and while the drama of the ments to Swamsea. Wales and started of Meriwether Lewis, a gentleman in was still to sink another 100 feet. On the next of Virginia and "The Lindbergh ' being enacted, two wandering pros- level the vein widened to more than 5.) of 1807." pectors drove their claim stakes on feet. Copper ore of such richness and Not so many years after Lewis pio- the hill that was destined to be the quantity had never before been heard neered the trail, Humphrey came west greatest producer of them all. of. As A silver mine the Anaconda had and so it came about that May, 1864, By the fall of 1864 comparatively, been a rank failure but it fooled even saw him, in company with Allison, in rich placers had been struck by Al- its owners by becoming the richest search of a new place to dig gold. lison and Humphrey. Several other copper mine in the world. Virginta. City was getting crowded. Lit- prospectors "followed the wagon tracks" Butte's future was now assured—but tle did either of the men know that of these two men and also staked while Daly was in the midst of bitter they were to discover "The Richest Hill claims on Butte Hill. The first house political warfare with W. A. Clark, the on Earth"—the most productive min- on the present site of Butte was erect- third major actor in Butte's drama eral territory in America. ed in the summer of 1864 by Humphrey appeared upon the scene. westward from Alder On the journey and four other prospectors. It was He was F. Augustus Heinze. He came Gulch, Humphrey and Allison passed located on what is now Quartz street, to Butte from the been noted by Columbia School of a landmark which had and was sold a few years later to! Mines in 1889 and went to work for the Lewis and Clark 59 years earlier. It Robert Girton for $100. Chasteen A. old Boston and what is now, Moptana Mining Co. was the Point of Rocks in Humphrey, brother of one of the as a surveyor. Two years later he in- Beaverhead county. There the two pros- founders of Butte, rode horseback from herited $50,000, quit followed the his job and went pectors swung north and Nevada City, Calif., to Butte in the to Europe for a few months of recre- Big Hole river until they re,ached a summer of 1864. ation and study. Upon his return to point where the river emerges from a Things moved slowly for Butte of America he took a position as assistant big basin to the west. There they de- those early days and when David N. editor of the Engineering and Mining serted the river and continued north- Upton arrived in September, 1866, Journal, a publipatkan which still "there were no buildings where the ranks high with mining men the world F. AUGUSTUS HEINZE town site is now1 but in Buffalo gulch, around. His connection with the maga- Mining Engineer, Mine Operator and near Centervillej there were about 40 zine brought him in contact with men Millionaire, Who Was Responsible for men and 5 wo en, and they thought who put up the capital to organize the they had the bltgest town in the moun- One of the Bitterest Political Fights. Montana Ore Purchasing Co. to build the West Has Ever Seen, tains." a smelter to treat ores from the small- Butte's first tenelter was built in the er Butte mines. This smelter gave day three monuments honor that vis- autumn of 1867, in fin effort to work Heinze a foothold in Butte. Soon he ion. One is the bronze statue of Dali the ores which had been uncovered in was buying claims throughout the which stands before Butte's federal the search for gold-bearing quartz. Butte district. It was to be a battle of building. It was one of the last works Some copper matte was shipped to . The "apex problem" was of Augustus St. Gaudens, one of the Swansea, Wales, but the enterprise• the big issue. All of the veins in the greatest sculptors of all time. The other was soon abandoned, for the ore had Butte Hill were not straight down and two monuments to 'lair. fame are the to be hauled to Fort Benton by bull MARCUS DALY—Lifeli,..g Enemy of William A. it soon developed that Heinze was Anaconda Reduction Works at Ana- team, thence down the Missouri river Clark; Shrewd Judge of Silver Properties, Who Developed Richest Copper Mine in the World. taking ore from the ground beneath conda and the Min- by river boat. Daly-Anaconda Mining Co. claims. The ing Co., world's largest copper mining, The failure of the smelter business • result was an eight-year war in the smelting, refining and fabricating or- did not slow down mining activity and school teacher in Missouri, and a miner suecess that he sold his interest for courts of Silver Bow county. Heinze ganization, with its 40,000 stockholders As a placer camp Butte reached its in Colorado before he drove an ox team $30,000 appeared to have won a victory when and its properties in 12 states and sev- first apex of prosperity in 1867. But. into Bannack in July, 1863. On the very Now Marcus Daly had his eye on the the courts awarded him $14,000,000 but eral foreign countries. water was scarce and a dry season in night of his arrival in Bantgick he 1869 caused many of the miners to joined a stampede to Horse Prairie. leave the camp. Also, the sands of Sil- There he secured a claim which he, ver Bow creek had been "panned out." operated quite succiessfully, earning I , Butte's population in 1870 was only his first thousand dollars—the thou- 1 1 241 persons. Then in 1874 interest iXt sand dollars which was destined WI THE TRAIL TVE GUN-RUNNERS quartz mining was renewed and miners become the foundation of the vast Clark , began to pour into the camp once fortune. Upon the approach of win- I more. ter C'1,ark bought a mule team and ' Of MILIM /WPM WILLIAM A. CLARK In the fall of the year 1874. one of where he bought AN MS/PE STORr WILL YOU TELL US ALL. RIGHT-ELL TELL WOOS° went to N,NERS Who drove an ox team into Bannack Butte's earliest prospectors, William L. A STORY WHILE WERE YOU ABOUT THE TIME of TN-- a supply of provisions, selling them at I VM.4S GU FF-Mt,, in July, 1863, to earn the first thou- 1Farlin, returned from the FORMER ACE G-MAN TAKING OUR POST I WAS SENT ON AN diggings in twice their cost on his return to Ban- FOR sand dollars which was the founds,- ' Idaho. The law of congress by which flack. Spring found him mining again. TOWN" HOME, ASSIGNMENT ()OWN W0 NGMS tion of the vast Clark fortune; He I all quartz claims unrepresented for a sold his claims, traveled MR PuRviS IN LOUISIANA . . ,30131 That fall he MELVIN PURVIS,the young TO SE was one of the first men to appreel- year were to revert to the public do- City, and THE CP.'" once more to Salt Lake A ate the possibilities of the ore de- main was about to go into effect. Jan. freighted a large supply of foodstuffs lawyer who became Amer- FlAx7,..., pp posits in the Butte district, and was 1, 1875, was the date when claims un- Virginia City, when in its best days. ice's ace 6-Man—who L1:"1 134" -aftlERICAN to cE WPM' E FOUND identified for 62 years in a vital way represented could be relocated under Food was sc,arce in Virginia City that directed the capture of Dil- IC. W with the state's development, leaving this act. Mr. Farlin had noted some winter and as a merchant Clark was REPUet., THEM • linger,"Pretty Boy" Floyd, No TWA-. wE at death a fortune reputed to have 1 promising claims during his first res-to able to name his own price for his ' been more than $350,000,000. 1 idence in Butte. When he went groceries. He went into the general "Baby Face" Nelson, and 1)NTa ora Mr. UPON A L ' Idaho, he took samples of ore from store business at Blackfoot, then IV other public enemies. CAME pop4 UAW* ward in the direction of what is now , these claims with him. He had the new mining camp, near the present Purvis reveals here meth- samples assayed at Owyhee, found USIE) ...yogi, THE° the city of Deer Lodge, but which was site of Avon, in Powell county. En- I ods used in capturing crim- To A a"- A HEAVY known prior to 1864 as Spanish Fork,, them rich in silver. Upon his return Blackfoot he crossed the I route to inals. Names have, of HAD WE"cv o. BE FORE" then Cottonwood, and still later, La- I to Butte, he kept quiet about what he Rockies through the Mullen Pass, in Barge City. A few months before knew and at midnight, Dec. 31, 1874, the first stagecoach in traverse the course, been changed. Humphrey and Allison left Alder Gulch, he relocated the Travonia and several new Mullen military road. embarked upon a other claims that had been abandoned 1 LaBarge City had the fall of 1865, ever on the alert MY MEN ON GUARD SEINE MELVIN PU • IS BRINGS OUT THE boom and the Deer Lodge Land. by their original owners. In LOOK, CHIEF -- SOMEBODY'S 'I PUT ONE OF slight a good deal, William A. Clark THE BRUSH. NOTHING INVISIBLE WRITING... Co. had engaged Walter W. DeLacy to! Mining news spreads quickly a , to turn BEEN ALONG THIS PATH PATH, CONCEALED IN discovered that the markets of Mon- THREE WEEKS,MO THEN' townsite. • mysteriously and the news of Butateni I SINCE THAT RAIN YESTERDAY. HAPPENED FOR AHA . WE'LL MAKE ANOTHER plat the to 1 tana were short of tobacco supplies. He Humphrey and Allison did not cm:L..' rich silver ledges spread quickly FARMER HID NOTE JUST LIKE THIS AND PUT sold his Blackfoot etore, rode horse- , V. LOOK,CHIEF --A Lodge beyond what ' other camps. Miners swarmed into the IT IN THE SAME HIDING PLACE! tinue toward Deer back to Idaho, and purchasedi . THIS MANN PIECE OF PAPER There' area and, an er,a of claim-Jumping fol_ Boise, is now the town of Silver Bow. pounds of tobacco. UNDER A POCIS BY THAT PATH NOW, BOB, GET IN TOUCH lowed. More substantial buildings were several thousand they turned east toward the main' supply he took back to TODAY WITH THAT COAST GUARD up' erected. The first miners' union was The tobacco range of the Rockies, which loomed in Helena at from PATROL BOAT. , formed June 13, 1878, and to this day Montana, selling it 10 miles away. Riding their horses over pound. Thus the se, they saw a' that date is a holiday in Butte—Miners' four to six dollars a a rolling foothill country, the young busi- , Union Day. Butte has always been a Clark fortune grew as stream winding its way across the continued to buy cheap and HM... THOSE TRACKS ARE flat floor of the mountain valley. This ' great union town. ness man Butte's rise sell at boom prices. In 1868 Clark CAEP Am CLOSE TOGETHER stream is now known 'is Silver Bow! Perhaps the alga of WHOE vE LET'S TEST Ft...1-U. SEE IF MY camp of the formed a partnership with D. W. Don- T RAI mEAAIS THAT creek, thus named because it formed , from a frontier mining THOSE PRINTS SPECIAL DEVELOPER FLUID silver in late sixties to the greatest mining city nell, a pioneer merchant of Deer Lodge MADE WAS an arc which glistened like they. CARRYING A HEAVY BURDEN! WILL SWIG OUT ANY REVISIBLE record in the Americas can best be told by and Virginia City, and together the sun. History does not opened a bank WRITING ! whether Humphrey and Allison or tracing the careers of the three men Prospered. In 1869 they Lodge and moved their stocks: some later explorers named the creek, who played outstanding parts in the in- in Deer $1, during its there. A few months later S. E. Larable! Ws 'WS On a site believed to have been what dustrial life of the city '-'7-.., %'• • is now the South Wyoming street dis- formative era. The first of these three entered the firm. trict in Butte, the two prospectors made' men to arrive was William A. Clark. It was in 1872 that Clark turned his' camp, began to prospect. After two! and he outlived both of the others, attention to Butte. He opened a branch MIDNIGHT THAT NIGHT AND T N••• GEE.THAT WAS I KC(TING . NOW MAY months of work they returned to V1r- . Born in Connellsville, Pa., in 1839, bank there and purchased an interest I HOWE SOW MORT POST TOASTIIIS? UP WITH YOUR HANDS! YOU WON'T City for supplies and perhaps Mr. Clark had been a farm box in in the Original, Colusa, Mountain Chief following GOOD WORK, MY F REX'S! SMUGGLE ANY MORE GUNS) YOU CERTAINLY MAY I W grilaa bit of a holiday in tbst then! Pennsylvania and Iowa, a 'country and Gambetta mines. The 4101 winter he spent studying at the zAT IS ZE LAST CASE OF • ri EVERY MEMBER OF MT JUN School of Mines, Columbia 'University RIFLES! G-MAN CORPS TO MONTHS UT US it G learning how to assay. What he learnt,. -MIN 4 ERE LOTS OF at Columbia gave him faith in Butte's • POST TOASTII ! future and in 1873 and 1874 he began •..emesre••- the exploration of the Colusa and t;*11111111, Gaznbetta, shipping his ore by freight trains to Corrine, Utah, thence by rail --}.-to San Francisco and Baltimore, When,- 0.10. MR. William Farlin discovered silver in: EASY ADVICE TO TAME - Butte Hill in 1874 William A. Clark. was in on the ground floor and his' POST TOASTIMS SURE career as a mining magnate began In TASTE SWELL ! 1 earnest. He completed the first suc- cessful silver mill in the district--the' ! Dexter, which began operations in the : post spring of 1876. In 1877 he received a: RLS! JOIN MYJUNIOR G-MAN CORPS! 111. 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SENO One of Clark's fellow workers in the Big Hole skirmish was Marcus Daly, es' Ado.•••• who was destined to become Clark's SECRET OF POST TOASTIES'it chief rival for industrial and political supremacy in Butte, EXTRA GOODNESS REVEALED ;1;11 0 Clark continued as a banker in Butte 01110111, -Run distilling gives you top quality whiskey and and his firm successfully weathered the , Top panic of 1893, for every dollar of the TINS IS Till NEW POST TOWNS PACKAGE two Post Toasties package ge those golden-brown Post Orchard has the call millions he had made in the mines and TO MO: Send THERE ARE MICKEY MOUSE TOYS ON REM OWL nothing else. That's why Crab in right. to Melvin 1 Toasties could talk . . . they'd smelters of Butte was behind that fops, with coupon Purvis. He'll send you his official Junior you why they're so good that Kentucky straight bourbon private bank in a city of less than, tell COUPON NOW!, 6-Man badge, his big book that tells how r--CLIP 50,000 people. One financial writer has folks everywhere call them "The —93 proof—and priced right to become a Junior 6-Man. and • catalog N. written: "It is doubtful whether any Better Corn Flakes!" NFL YIN PURVIS. 7"20-S. of OTHER SWELL FREE PRIZES! down With the lowest. What bank in this country, not excluding the They'd tell you how they are made C.• Peat Tenets*. Battle Croak, MAL firm of J. P. has such for? Morgan & Co., -from the sweet,tender little hearts I enclose Post 1 oasties pack- more are you looking Immense resources behind it." age tops. Please send me the items of the corn, where most of the flavor Marcus Daly. Clark's great rival, ar- checked below. Check whether is stored . . . how every delicious boy ( )or girl ( ). Age ( ). rived in Butte in 1875 as a representa- keep Membership Badge (send 2 pack- Salt firm. He flake is toasted double crisp to ( ) tive of a lake banking tops) *Mimed a reputation as a shrewd its crunchy goodness longer in milk Boys' Badge (right) )age( Invisible oWpir)iting Outfit (send 8 Of silver properties and the Salt Or cream. package and Girls' Division City bankers wished to make ' INVISIBLE WRIT- And how extra good they are with (Pat correct postage ea kner) what they could from the silver ex- Badge (above). Both ING 1METa 01111-11. the luscious, juicy fruits that are in citement in Butte. Daly was a former badges are of pol- WNW& On car- toon above.) season now! You'll like them for employe of the Hearst interests in the ished gold-bronze With Cod-a- Nam luncheon, too! Ask• Mother to get fabulous Comstock Lode country Of design, enameled in graph you can Nevada Upon his arrival in Butte he blase Either one Asa masks up ewe mow your Post Toasties now-the price Street for optkmed the Alice mine for $5.000, me- midair/ Pm* • is low. And join Melvin Purvis' for 2 Post Tomtits Post Tossties Ogitzing a small interest in the Prop- Package tops- package Junior G-Man Corps! City State_ .1.% P erty for himself. He built a mill and inf.. _,.v_ Oat /11•• OW &A.) 011111111sm C.CANYWIRIAA Leekellse. ISeesedar The &M4&M4 Detinkto Nalmmt Woo the Alice was such a booming A Pea MEAL — MBE SY GENOA HMG I.