Word: minerality
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...onetime Parisian wife, it was she who in the early '60s braved a squalid, vulgar Nevada mining town with her first husband, one Dr. Bryant. After his death she kept a boarding house in the mining camps. To her table came John W. Mackay, Irish immigrant miner. They were married. The famed Comstock Lode, in the opening of which he was an entrepreneur, yielded $300,000,000 in gold and silver within six years. Buttressed with wealth, Mrs. Mackay assailed San Francisco society, made but slight impress. She traveled to France. There her dark beauty, wit, enviable taste...
...Miner Clark was the first to discover the Butte copper veins. The first to develop them on a large scale was blatant, uncouth Marcus Daly. In 1879, a reduction plant was erected near Butte, saving the 400-mile overland haul. The next year, Irishman Daly began to make Butte roar. His men probed the earth night and day. Smoke poured out from 100 furnaces. Lumberjacks hacked down whole forests for timber to hold up excavations and tunnels...
Fiercely, Miner Clark fought with Miner Daly. They battled for land titles, for the tribal leadership of the outlaw camp. All through the '90s, while Montana was becoming a state, the enemies sparred for position. Clark's great triumph came in 1899. With $431,000, his lieutenants bought him a seat in the U. S. Senate. Their slogan: "Every man who votes for Clark is to be paid, and the men who vote for him without being paid are fools." After he was elected, he poured $30,000 worth of champagne into Helena, the capital...
...ugliness. It cost $7,000,000. It held: 130 rooms, 21 bathrooms, a furnace burning 17 tons of coal daily, 5 organs, 1 Turkish bath, a hideous tower, dining rooms on all floors, 4 picture galleries including the best and worst art of all periods. Within this pretentious tomb, Miner Clark lived quietly with his wife and children. He became a familiar figure in Manhattan, strutting down Fifth Avenue, his white hair waving wildly in the wind, his face hidden by fluffy, square beard and flourishing moustache...
Anaconda. Miner Clark's triumph over Miner Daly did not end the copper wars. Bitter and prolonged was the battle over titles between Miner Fritz Augustus Heinze, onetime friend of Miner Clark, and the Amalgamated Copper Co., predecessor of Anaconda. A great tactical advantage passed to Anaconda when it bought the Heinze properties. Gradually, Anaconda became master of Butte, a power in all Montana...