This is an extract from Ancestry.comSeptember 4, 1889, on the eve of Montana statehood, Marcus Daly gave birth to Montana’s best financed and most prestigious newspaper, theAnaconda Standard. Just five years earlier, Daly had platted the town site of Anaconda, named for his extraordinarily rich copper mine located in Butte. The new town would house smelting operations for one of the world’s most successful metals corporations. To run theAnaconda Standard, Daly sought out John H. Durston, a former professor of philology from New York University and an editor of theSyracuse Standard [LCCN: sn91066098]. In 1888 Durston had brought his family west to operate a failing gold mine east of Butte, but he soon signed on with Daly to bring the newspaper to life. Daly’s initial investment of $30,000 provided for a state-of-the-art printing press, luxurious editorial offices, and the money to hire experienced editors, reporters, and graphic designers. The Anaconda Standard was to be the rival of newspapers in Minneapolis and the Pacific Northwest...
Name: Martin Scahill
Newspaper: The Anaconda Standard, Anaconda, Montana
Event: Miner Are Voting Nominations Today
Venue: Union Miners Hall
Date: 24 March 1914
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