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MONTANAS 1897 OUTLOOK OUTLOOKThat That keen figure in American business and American racing linos Marcus Daly was in hicago last Tuesday and Wednesday He went to Montana Wednesday evening after a long conference with Ed A Tipton the manager of the Montana tracks at Anaconda and Butto in the welfare of which Mr Daly is deeply inter ¬ ested Mr Tipton was akeen figure in harness dom before he wont into the Montana racing enterprise His management of the Kentucky harness meeting earned him golden spurs Last year he was the working man of both the Lex ¬ ington association and the Montana tracks The latters expansion forced him to resign his Kentucky post He will give all his attention to Montana racing this season going west in May Last seasons Montana racing term it produced Ogden and May W was of fortyone dajs Anaconda seventeen and Butte twenty four This year it will be expanded to fifty days twentyone at Anaconda and twentynine at Butte The towns are twentyseven miles apart Denver and Colorado Springs will hold ironings before those of Montana Montanabe be me twenty racing stakes from 1000 to 1MJU guaranteed value will be offered for the Anaconda and Butte meetings The racing at each will be mixed the harness horses having thf ir share of the prizes But the offerings for the thoroughbreds will bo rich enough to attract the best horses in America AmericaIhoro Ihoro is but a superficial general idea of the Montana enterprise Last spring the Anaconda and Butte tracks and their equipments were mori ruins Some 150000 was spent under Ed Iiptons management and upon his idea to rr ake them what they should be There are no hi tter American racing establishments in exist ¬ ence today than they are The earned a profit in 196 196i i novel plan will be put in operation at the twi 1x97 Montana meetings This and that Eastern track talks of mutuel betting The Butts and Anaconda management has gone to actuality about the mutuel system Both tracks will manage their own betting this year The niachmes and tickets have been bought and aipppd to Montana already Only the mutuel t in will be us d Its result will be of keen latciost to lovers of racing in America Americailif ilif extent of Marcus Dalys investment in rucinp is best shown by the catalogue of his letter Root Stud which is just out a book of iii pa es A record of Mr Dalys harness horse I sse stions will be as large or larger There KI individual pedigrees of horses on the r bl ranche within the racing catalogue The Iuij establishment has no American equal in fenih and equipment A rough estimate sug g ts an investment of more than a million dol ¬ lars about it Tammany js the chief of its thoroughbred sires siresMarcus Marcus Daly plain keen concise and con ¬ s rvative says its a pretty good place placeJgdens Jgdens in the Suburban but 1 dont think hf will start Said he The colts more likely to go in the Realization Thats more reason ¬ able The early handicaps are too early for a tnree year old I can only recall two who could havo won the Brooklyn or Suburban Salvator at d Tammany But its Byrnes business His ctfry of Ogden was a mere complimentary one Ihr colts a good colt coltHow How good Ogden is can be opined on top of the fact that Mr Daly won 95000 on him wheu the son of Kilwarlin and Oriole won the Futurity Mr Daly is not much of a bettor if you con Bil n the Daly idea of things always big and troal Yet his wiunings ou Ogdeu were less tta losa ovor the Tammany Lamplighter matri aid Laidly a largo as th so iver Mon ¬ tana when ho won the Suburban Handicap of 1892 1892Mr Mr Dalys a big man all around Small things do not interest him much Ho could not see Wednesday afternoon how pool selling could be coupled with gambling and be pro ¬ hibited by law in Montana If It could bo Mr Daly would he said be satisfied to cease taking an interest in racing until legislative wisdom asserted itself itselfAmong Among American millionaires there is none so everydayish as Marcus Daly Hes about fifty years old sturdy ruddy gray almost to whiteness of hair and mustache witty and keen of tongue and sharply in lino about the affairs of the day He is one of your practical and liberal men of affairs with idoas about the affairs that come from experience There is no valet on Marcus Dalys trail He picks up his bag walks if he has time to the depot and is respected for his own sake by every man who knows him He abhors the newspaper hikyism that dubs him the Montana millionaire and The Copper King and hasnt a dram of pre ¬ tension about him
