Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-08-03

put stated from known resources there
Is IN sight large cXpanse, unpros-
p"ct"d, but III geologic sequence ira
versed by the same rich lodcs.
Next day Anaconda, 26 miles west
OF Butte, was visited with view of
looking through the smeltcr and con
ccntrator AT that place, the greatest in
the world. Armed with letters from
Mr.. Dawson, general manager of the
Montana Central railroad company.
and backed by Robert Law. general
superintendent of the Montana Union
railroad company, We confidently
sought the authorities. But all argu-
ment was vain. \ decree of the alb
sent manager, Mr.. Daley, stood in
cX"rably against us, and we missed
IN toto the prime aim of 100 miles
travel. Several contraband points
We're picked up however. The
works cover several acres and com
prise the most elaborate machinery
known. The ore, mined at Butte. is
reduced by processes here to 90 per-
rent. copper. The product is shipped
to Swansea, Wales, where all gold,
silver, antimony and arsenic are boil
ed out. The establishment appears to
be diStinctivcly Welsh. Mostly Welsh
men are employed in the works, and
the heaters are furnaced with frebrick
from Wales costing - cents apiece.
mo brick made in this country" said
Wclshman to the JOURNAL, "can
withstand Anaconda fire" Some of
the ore, assorted, running 80 per rent.
of copper, is sent to Swansea without
smelling. The matte, per ton. realizes
from $ll to $l5 of silver. Much of
the wood, costing E3t per cord, used
here, is sent to Stewart, Il shipping
point, III tlume p miles long thence
by rail to Anaconda. The motive
power OF these great works is wholly
invisible. Water, brought three miles
IN baIed iron casing, deeply buried,
and poured ON Il turbine wheel at
the bottom OF an S0-foot shaft, fur
nlshcs the force which propcls the long
lines of machinery. The waste passes
from the wheel into "A tunnel II miles
long. Hence, from the time the water
enters the casing until it energies from
the tunnel it has traverScd /! miles
underground.
The town hes in a pretty little
valley: is well laid ont and claims
from 5000 TO t. 900 inhabitants. 1t is
far from being as large as Frostburg,
however.
On the way over from Butte we met
again the solid citizen" He pointed
ont n solitary grave in "A large field
with the remark that the gcntlcman's
death took place near by.
'What was the matter with him ?"
asked the eager JOURNAL posiu" as an
unsuspecting individual.
'Matter enough" responded the
solid citizen. "Hc went too fur in
jumpiu' claim"
Back at Butte, Mr.. Dawson was
greatly disappointed at our failure to
get into the Anaconda works. But
he called the Journal. into the rear of
hls Office and, pointing to a little pyra-
md of silver bars, asked us to lift one
We did so with that ease and grace
which characterizeS journalistic con
duct IN the prcscnr" of great values.
Said he:
"ThoSe bars ar" lust in from the
blue Bird'-halfa Il weeks work-and
each is worth between fl 300 and
81 400, altogether between $4,000
and $1,000"
The JOrRNAL will not soon forget
Mr.. Dawson. He is one of the most
thoroughly V couSidcrate and kindIv at
tentive. gentlemen it has ever been our
fortune to meet. In him both the ST.
Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba and
the Montana Central railroads have
an invaluable representative of their
interests at one of the most important
of Montana centres.
Tuesday morning, July ., Butte
was given farewell, and northward
took our way again.
AT Boulder Il drovrr came in and the
car smelt like it had been tclcscoprd
by u cattle train.
Then at WickcS young man rush
ed in and yelled
docs anyone in this car know
whether the mine inspector is on
board ?"
With no time for asccrtaing what
was wrong, the JOURNAL reflected only
upon the depths which that thrilling
inquiry would have stirred in the ten
der memories OF several citizens of this
county who have survived incumbcncv
Of that Office.
During the afternoon this place was
reached, and hence the next of this
series will ho mailed.