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...last week, were other directors of his $153,000,000 company which supplies without competition all the electric light and power that Brooklyn, a district of 2,250,000 people uses. Brooklyn Edison directors were agreed with Chairman Brady and his very important co-director John D. Ryan (of Anaconda Copper fame) that their company should sell out to the $740,000,000 Consolidated Gas Co., New York City, through an exchange of stock...
Cornelius F. Kelley, president of the Anaconda Copper Mining...
Ryan formed in 1912, owns 95% of the electric light and power resources of Montana; it sells current to Mr. Ryan's greater company, the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. (he is chairman) and its subsidiaries, including a 120-mile electrified railroad; and it has a 99-year contract to furnish power to the electrified portion of the St. Paul Railroad. Montana Power is one of the largest and most powerful concerns in the Northwest. Isolated it is worth a good many millions...
...Copper Co. in Montana and to fight the late Fritz Augustus Heinze for control of the Montana copper-industry. Manager Ryan won his fight. When Henry Rogers died, in 1909, Ryan became president of the Amalgamated. Next year he dealt with Montana copper-companies in such a way that Anaconda Copper Mining Co. bought the subsidiaries of the Amalgamated, and after a proper interval he became president, then chairman, of Anaconda. During little more than ten years he has built the company's assets up to more than half a billion dollars. It produces 15% of the world...
...killed a jaguar as it was feeding on its kill, a colt. The elder Mr. Tate killed a poisonous bushmaster snake five feet long just after he had stepped across it in the dark. One of their 130 Arecuna Indian porters hacked with his machete at a 14-ft. anaconda until it was dead and ready for eating. (Anaconda flesh tastes something like chicken.) They snared birds, netted insects, disinterred ground plants, culled orchids from their treeholds, pounced on small beasts. Rare among their catches was a variety of the Thomas rat, second of its kind ever caught. (The first...