Murray, an Irish Catholic immigrant with no formal education, entered the Montana Territory with a few dollars in his pocket in 1863. This is a compilation of his holdings from various sources. With his penchant for hiding his assets under names of others, it is very difficult to find all of his assets.

Mining Interests*

• Smokehouse lode (1880)
• Keystone Gold and Silver Mining Company (1880)
• Washoe Lode (1881)
• Artic Lode (1883)
• Blackfoot Mine (1883)
• Stella Lode (1892)
• Bluebird Mine (1892)
• Alex Scott Mine (1896)
• Rialto (1889)
• Hesperus (1897)
• Longfellow Mine (1897)
• Silver King Mine (1898)
• New Copper Company (1901)
• Gem Mine (1901)
• Belle Marsh Mine (Idaho (1902)
• Late Acquisition Mine (1902)
• Acquisition-Balm Copper Mining Company (1902)
• Bear Gulch Mine (1902)
• Silver King Mining Company (Arizona, 1903)
• Oil Wells (Montana, 1904)
• Deer Creek Oil Company (Wyoming, 1904)
• Ticon Mine (1904)
• Adirondack Mine (1904)
• Basin Gulch Syndicate (1905)
• Hackberry Consolidated Mining Company (Arizona, 1919)

*Located in Montana unless otherwise noted

Banks

• James A. Murray Bank (Deer Lodge, 1868)
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  James A. Murray Bank in Butte, MT today

  James A. Murray Bank (Butte, 1873)

• National Bank of Republic (Salt Lake City, 1890)
• First National Bank of Pocatello (Pocatello, 1897)
• American Savings (Seattle, 1902)
• First Savings Bank (Pocatello, 1903)
• Bankers Trust Company (Tacoma, 1914)
• First State Bank of Livingston (1922)

Water Companies

• Pocatello, Idaho (1893)
• Livingston Water Works (1904)
• San Diego (1910)

Hotels and Hot Springs

• Hunter Hot Springs (1897)
  

  Hunter’s Hot Springs

• Mendenhall Sanatorium and Hot Springs (1899)
• Boulder Hot Springs (1909)
• Broadwater Hotel and Hot Springs (1917)

 

Real Estate

• Saloon (1873)
• Grand Opera House (Butte)
• American Bank Building (Seattle, 1904)
• Arctic Building (Seattle, 1911)
• Liberty Building (Seattle, 1911)
• Seven hundred acres (El Cajon, 1910)
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  Clark Chateau

  Clark Chateau (Acquired through foreclosure, 1915)

Personal Notes:

• Semloh Hotel & G.S. Holmes, $300,000 (1919)
• Various individual miners $700,000
• Beck’s Hot Springs $35,000 (1919)
• Livingston Hotel, $75,000 (1920)
• Ed Fletcher, $75,000 (1921)
• Charles Clark (son of W.A. Clark), $27,596.70 (1920)

 

Personal Residence

• Murray Hacienda (California, 1904)

 

Judge

• Judge Spears (1897)

 

Newspapers:

• Monterey Daily Cypress (1907)
• Pocatello Chronicle (1916)
• Butte Bulletin (1918, Financing only)

Jewelry

• Jim Murray, Carried up to $30,000 in diamonds in his pocket
• Mary Murray had $500,000 in jewelry

Monuments

• Father Junipero Serra’s fist landing location in California (1906)
• John Maguire gravesite (1909)
• Henderson Gulch Miners (1914)