The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-18
smelling establishments in the United
States.
THE SMELLING INDUSTRY.

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THE SMELLING INDUSTRY.
The works Of the Montana Silver and
Lead Smelling and Refining company are
located adjacent to the Giant spring, one of
the greatest natural curiosities in the
United States. The intention was
of which is finished at cost of $50, 600.
Another section will be begun soon. The
plant now consists of ten reverberatory
roasting and ten reverberatory fusion fur
naces in building 376x15O feet. These are
connected with a smokes stack 125 feet high.
The blast furnace building is 165x1O0. with
four furnaces running and six more COM
stack 100 feet high. An engine-house is at
tached-205x6O- with five large boilers, fred
with Sand .Coulee coal, and in the
next room is model engine-house contain
ing the blowers required for compressed air,
dynamos' necessary for the work, and sew
A machine shop, for repairs, is hero also.
The samplinR works are alongside the track,
and contains crushers, rollers and grinders,
with lao horse power engine for running
tho machinery. All the buildings have
side-tracks connecting with the railroad.
two long buildings for the accommodation
OF unmarried employees. and neat row Of
cottages has been erected for the married
ones. The Office, assay buildings and Of
hcers residences are splendid specimens of
architecture. The precautions against fire
are perfect. hydrants being at every corner.
water from the river, and q reservoir ON an
ways contains 2.5oo.So gallons in
reserve, in addition to tank of 5000
gallons near the furnace building. The ca
pacity of the works at present is something
ed BY next May. y and then m as IN much more
when required. The capacity calculated for
two years from now is not less than 1900
tons per day, employing about 1,5OO men.
At the present time about $50 mon are en-
ployed. This gigantic enterprise has bean
a success from the start, being superintend-
the United States, and the financial status
being assured by the fact that the corpora
ton is composed of some of the wealthiest
capitalists in Boston, New York and Phila-
delphia. The second series Of immense
works which are now begun, and will be in
operation next October, are those of the
AosToN, AND MONTANA SILVER AND COPPER
Smelling and Refining company. The di-
fsctots of this large and enterprising COM
ienys who own and control some of the
Argeat copper mining properties in the
west, had been looking for some desirable
locality to erect their immense smelling
and refining works, and they finally de-
cided that the large volume of the Missouri
river at this place, with it's immense water
power, the abundance of iuxes 30 near the
coal fields Of Sand Coulee, whose product
had first been crucially treated in their
works at Butte, formed combination of
resources not be found elsewhere. They
accordingly purchased a large tract of land
near Black Eagle falls on the north side of
the Missouri, and on this site the coming
smelling buildings Of such size and capao-
ity that the works will be able to handle
1900 tons of copper ore per, day. The
works will include a refinery able
TO act on all the matte the
smeeer produces. It is needless to
ssy that all the latest and improved ma
ohinery will be in use. The electrolytic
processes especially will be used to separate
the silver from the copper, the ore Of the
mines of this company containing hand
some percentage of the former metal. This
company is fully able to supply this gigantic
plant With ore, as in three a oo Of their mines
per and silver ore in sight. The value Of
the plant this company will erect is over
81 ,OOO. 600. As it is the intention of the
Boston and Montana company to foster the
erection of establishments here which will
consume and manufacture the products of
the refinery, it is needless to say that i'm
portant DEVELOPMENTS in that respect may
be shortly expected. The Great Northern
railway will provide ample facilities for
these great works; there are now being To-
Gated five tracks from Great Falls junction
to the shelters.
The location of these two immense plants
and their erection there, demonstrate prac-
tically the industrial capacity Of Great
Falls, and shows better than the most per-
suasive arguments the unequaled advant-
ages it offers manufacturers in quest of
suitable field for their industries.
THE CATARACT FIGURING MILL
at Great Falls ia the only one on the Mis-
souri, river for distance OF 500 miles. This
enterprise was due to the energy of H. O.
Chowen, one of the most enterprisinR citi-
zens of Great Falls, who realized that nec-
essity demanded Touring mill at this
point to grind the wheat Of the immense
farming region around Great Falls, which
1s yet IN its infancy ss q producing center.
belt roller make, and has capacity Of 100
barrels per day, turning out -four of
superior quality, the wheat obtained from
the neighboring farms being as fine QUAIL
ity of No. hard and Scotch
fife as can be found anywhere.
The power is derived from O-inch Leffel
wheel, receiving its water from the un-
failing Missouri, at the edge of which the
mill stands. With the surrounding country
filling up rapidly as it is and the acreage Of
wheat increasing, the Cataract Mill COM
pany will soon be forced to increase the
to $50 barrels per day, and this ad-
dition is contemplated to be done at an
early day.
NATURES WONDERS.