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resulted in scandal in 1899, when it was revealed that he bribed members of the Montana State Legislature in return for their votes. At the time, U.S. Senators were chosen by their respective state legislators. The U.S. Senate refused to seat Clark because of the 1899 bribery scheme, but a later
207:, just 30 miles west of Butte. To this day, the giant smokestack remains a landmark. Shortly after Daly built the smelter, the Boston and Montana Co., with holdings second only to Daly's, built one in 261:, a local banker, became close to Margaret Daly after her husband's death, and finally convinced Okrusch to sell out, creating the monopoly Amalgamated sought. By 1910, it had changed its name to the 128: 100: 250:, one of the largest trusts of the early Twentieth Century. (Neither Standard Oil nor John D. Rockefeller were directly involved). To stir the mix, another Copper King, 154:. His mission was to inspect the Alice Mine for possible purchase by the brothers. Daly purchased the mine and successfully managed it for the Walkers. The town of 150:
By 1876, Butte had become a prosperous silver camp with over 1,000 inhabitants. Marcus Daly arrived that year representing the Walker brothers, entrepreneurs from
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It wasn't long before Butte began to pay a price for the riches. The air filled with toxic sulfurous smoke. Daly responded by building a giant smelter in
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During the 1880s, copper mining came into the forefront and Butte became the world's greatest copper producer. The
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The battles between Clark, Daly, Murray and Heinze, and later between just Heinze and industrialist financiers
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swallowing several smaller mining companies along the way. The Company dominated Butte for the next 74 years.
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Senate campaign was successful, and he served a single, undistinguished term from 1901 until 1907.
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mining industry, the fight that had ramifications for not only Montana, but the
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While the cost of smelting the complex copper-bearing ore was high, after the
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In 1880, Daly sold his interest in the Walkers' properties and bought the
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Clark also yearned to be a statesman and used his newspaper, the
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William A. Clark
industrialists
Marcus Daly
William A. Clark
James Andrew Murray
F. Augustus Heinze
Butte, Montana
Gilded Age
copper
United States
William Rockefeller
Henry H. Rogers
Montana history
Anaconda Copper
monopoly

Marcus Daly

F. Augustus Heinze
American Civil War
William Andrews Clark
Andrew Jackson Davis
Butte
silver
gold
Montana
Salt Lake City
Walkerville
Anaconda Mine

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