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COMMENT 328633	2012-10-06 02:38 PM
Do you have information on the Clark family? Reporter Bill Dedman is writing a nonfiction book about the Clark family. If you have information, including documents, please drop a line to Bill Dedman. The link is at the bottom of the article.
COMMENT 328647	2012-10-06 03:10 PM
Is there anything new here? Everything in this article seems to have been covered (and linked here) before.
COMMENT 328652	2012-10-06 03:24 PM
Perhaps the Natives/Locals should keep our secrets to ourselves and not sell ourselves out. Please,,, keep quiet.
COMMENT 328633	2012-10-06 03:31 PM
Yes, this is new information. The values placed on the Clark properties by her executor were filed in the court in New York this week.
COMMENT 328689	2012-10-06 04:55 PM
I get the Santa Barbara house.
COMMENT 328786	2012-10-07 08:36 AM
689- Are you sure you want that house? Literally dozens of staff running around = no privacy. Always some repair needing your approval and money. Managing all that staff.... Decades of building in Montecito has taught me how blessed a small house is. The rest is just Ego.
COMMENT 328791	2012-10-07 09:04 AM
Was that photo of Bellosguardo from our own John Wiley? Nice work, dude!
COMMENT 328885	2012-10-07 12:40 PM
"Huguette (pronounced "u-GET") Marcelle Clark, born in Paris in 1906, inherited her fortune from William Andrews Clark (1839-1925), a U.S. senator from Montana who was among the richest men of the Gilded Age, a copper miner, banker, builder of railroads, and founder of the city of Las Vegas." The myth of the wealthy deserving by hard work and struggle never dies. Wealth often is the right time and right place and by the corruption of the various land frauds of manifest destiny. We saw this throughout the America's, and much of the world as well. Copper is one of the most toxic metals to aquatic organisms and ecosystems. The miners that worked at low wages to make Mr Clarke's wealth - When a person is exposed to copper levels above the essential levels needed for good health, the liver and kidneys produce metallothionein.
COMMENT 328993P	2012-10-07 05:34 PM
I just couldn't resist: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/05/business/la-fi-mo-richest-woman-pay-20120905 ... This echoes Rinehart's earlier to-do list, in which she urged Aussie lawmakers to cut the minimum wage so that, well, she wouldn't have to spend so much money on things like workers' salaries and benefits. "The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business," Rinehart said at the Sydney Mining Club. "Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country's future." ....
GOBBLEDYGOOK	2012-10-07 06:15 PM
Clark's fortune is one of the last, if not actually the last, of the great robber baron fortunes of the late 19th century. It was divided into 5ths by her father, but of course the other fifths all went to people who had families and descendants and it got broken up in time. Huguette's piece stayed intact through the whole 20th century. It's amazing to watch the drama playing out in the present. I can't really give a fig for any of the players, except those who are trying, after the fact, to identify those who may have harmed an old lady. It's something to think about while driving by the Clark bird refuge--what if Andree Clark had lived?--or walking among those grandiose memorials to the wealthy dead on the bluff next to Bellosguardo.

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