Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-12
A GIGANTIC ENTERPRISE.
Great Falls to Have an Inn
mense Smelter and
Refinery.
The Boston g. Montana Mining
Company are the
Projectors.

GREAT FALLS, Mont, October s.-lSp
cial to the Miner by Rocky Mountain Tel
graph. lit has been known for some tim
that the Boston d. Montana Mining CON
pany, of Butte. intended to erect a smelte
OF great magnitude in order to reduce on
larger scale the product OF the rich coppe
mines OF Butte. which yield now "a, 200
600 pounds OF refined copper annually
making the total earnings about 90, 600,
900 year.
The negotiations OF the company will
the Montana Central and Manitoba rail
roads and the Great Falls Water Powe
and Townsite company have now beer
completed. The works VIII be located here
The contracts have been signed, sealed anl
delivered. In short time the work OF con
struction will be under full headway.
The agreement with the Boston & Mon
tana company is that the unsurpassed
water power OF the Black Eagle falls is te
be developed and made ready to furnish
motive power for the immense smslter by
August 1 OF next year. To this end work
ON the dam at the falls will be commenced
in short time under the general direction
OF Mr.. Tanning, the eminent hydraulic en-.
gineer, who has already prepar, the plans
and specifications for this great undertak.
ing. Much OF the work will be
completed this fall and winter, as the con.
ditions are most favorable. The river lie
Inwar NOW khop r. waa nvar Lrour %<, Lo
and this circumstance will greatly facilitate
the work. The dam to be constructed
across the Missouri river will be the most
thorough and substantial in the United
States, and one OF the most important un.
dertakings OF this character in thecountry.
To develop this great water power and
render 1t subservient to the needs OF the
industry will cost in round figures $780,.
900. Work on the great smelter will be be.
gun this fall. 1t is understood that it will
be one OF the largest emelting and refining
works in the world.
The Boston & Montana Consolidated
Copper and Silver Mining company as now
organized is one Of the strongest in the
uniUcu OudtoS. lucy own Lu6 m0uuUalu
View mine at Butte, and many others ad-
iacent that promise equally we'll. The
former is acknow lodged 10 be one OF the
largest, richest and most valuable &C pper
properties in the world.
1t ia the intention of the company not
only to erect q snelter, but also refneryat
this place, and it is given out that the plant
will be much the largest in Montana, not
even excepting the Anaconda pant. The
engineers will be here in few days to lay
out the work, which will begin
at the earliest practicable day.
The Boston & Montana com.
pany has already appropriated money
for this great smelter anu refinery. The
company calculates that the increase in
production will repay the cost Of the works
in few years. II is believed that this un-
dertaking will give a powerful impulse to
mining at Butte and diffuse Nealth through
all Central Montana, VIII ,se cities, ranches
and coal fields will all be benefited by the
immense capital which the Boston million
aires will pour in here to keep the smelter
and refinery working to their full CO. .,acity,
which will be many times the present pro-
duction.