A MODERN MIDAS

Grey River Argus, 17 April 1925, Page 2

A MODERN MIDAS

HIS BAT.ACE COST FORTT’NES. William A. Clark cupper king and former U.S. Senator from Montana, is dead. He passed away lasd week in Kis dollar palaeo that required thirteen years to build on Fifth Avouue. New York. Tn this palace are paintings and objects of art valued ar one a. half million dollars. Clark was a second King Midas, so rich that lie was unable to compute it in dollars. Estimates place his fortune at 200,000,000 million dollars or more. In Greek mythology there was a King Midas under whose touch everything' turned to gold, oven the food he ate, until ho bathed in a. river, and then the magic gift was transferred to the water. And so it was with Clark. TTis wealth came from tho mines and it is not recorded ho over added to tho sum total of the nation’s wealth through his own efforts. Other mon went down into the mines and brought forth riches to place at his feet. Clark owned the United A erde copper mine at Jerome, Arizona, perhaps the richest mine in tho world, said to have yielded its owner an income in excess of 12,000,000 dollars a year. Ho owned other copper, gold and silver mines which added to his income.