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The Anaconda Copper Company, founded in 1880 and based in Butte, dominated the world copper market and poured wealth into the state.

The Anaconda Copper Company, founded in 1880 and based in Butte, dominated the world copper market and poured wealth into the state.

The company fortunes began to reverse when the Chilean government expropriated all of the Anaconda's highly profitable operations in Chile between 1969 and 1971. New management took over and executed tough belt-tightening measures that did little to stop the disintegration of the company. Help appeared to arrive in 1976 in the form of a merger with the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), but when the Anaconda's bottom line failed to respond to ARCO's inept management, ARCO shut down the company's operations in Montana. In 1985 the company's Montana assets were sold to a local businessman.  What remains tpdau are Superfund cleanup operations rin by the [[EPA]].<ref>Eugene C. Tidball, "What Ever Happened to the Anaconda Company?"  ''Montana: the Magazine of Western History' 1997 47(2): 60-68 </ref>  

The 1888-1900 bitter feud between Montana copper kings Marcus Daly and William Andrews Clark played a considerable role in the economic and political life of territorial and early statehood years. It affected the mergers of large corporations, the location of the state capital, and the elections of congressional delegations. Daly's Irish Catholic (Green) heritage and Clark's Scotch-Irish Presbyterian (Orange) backgrounds were important factors in the feud.<ref>David Emmons, "The Orange and the Green in Montana: a Reconsideration of the Clark-Daly Feud." ''Arizona & the West'' 1986 28(3): 225-245</ref>

 

The Anaconda company fortunes began to reverse when the Chilean government expropriated all of the Anaconda's highly profitable operations in Chile between 1969 and 1971. New management took over and executed tough belt-tightening measures that did little to stop the disintegration of the company. Help appeared to arrive in 1976 in the form of a merger with the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), but when the Anaconda's bottom line failed to respond to ARCO's inept management, ARCO shut down the company's operations in Montana. In 1985 the company's Montana assets were sold to a local businessman.  What remains tpdau are Superfund cleanup operations rin by the [[EPA]].<ref>Eugene C. Tidball, "What Ever Happened to the Anaconda Company?"  ''Montana: the Magazine of Western History' 1997 47(2): 60-68 </ref>

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