Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-05-28
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TAKING A BUGGY RID wtTH Mr.. TIeHE.
Many people go TO Anaconda IuiuA'
ing that the great mine is there, but IL
Is not. 1t Is elsewhere. The smelter is
at Anaconda and is so perfected that
very few men are needed to run 1t.
Anaconda was a speculation. Inc
owners OF the big mine at Butte SUD
denly thought one day that they could
make a town by putting up a smelter on
a ranch which cost them $1,000. linen
each one of them located l6O acres De-
sides. This laid out in lots brought
over 81, O0O, 900, making a profit oil ZOO
per cent. | am told. By removing this
smelter to another ranch elsewhere l
think another million might be realized.
The way people follow a smelter around
is very singular to me. l know a man
quite well also who has made a comfort
able fortune by owning q portable
WOODEN factory, with which he has been
enabled TO establish over IS towns,
which are now occupied as happy homes
by the antimere and prairie dog.
Returning to The oyster and dressing
room at Billings, we got some kerosene
and pieces OF board and Quilt q fire in
the range, warmed our feet in the oven
and made hot coffee, which we drank
between acts. Once l surprised Mr..
Burbank with hot wafles and genuine
maple syrup on his return from the pull
pit. II was a pleasure to see him eat
them. But the odor of the cooking got
into the audience, and we had TO quit.
1t was homelike while it lasted, for
while the blast howled outside, TO ruO
the waffle iron with a pork rind and
hear it sizzle, and then TO slap a Dig
iron spoonful of the batter l had made
myself into the red hot waffle iron, was
joy-joy that reimbursed US for the
naughty treatment Of the cork headed
mau who ran the opera house at Boze-
man and who had been excused from
his lob on the railroad, also from other
places, promising never TO do so again.
Bozeman is a thriving town OF from
5000 to 5000, according to whom you
ask. 1t is in the center OF an agrlcul-
tural district where as high as 154%
bushels OF wheat grow per acre. Think
of that. We farmers who toll and coax
the land to produce 10. This wheat is
also much heavier than eastern wheat.
So also is the bread made from IL in
such cases.
At Anaconda the day we were there
a s~choolboy II years old was reprimand-
ed by the teacher, a man from Ohio.
The boy did not reply till the teacher
advanced toward him In q half threat
eniug anDer when the boy advanced
Stso, drew a large navy revolver and ex-
claimed calmly, aiming the weapon at
the teachers head:
Man, you know not what you do.
Think seriously Of this or you will rue
it. Advance one step further and you
are a dead nan"
The teacher thought it over a mo-
ment, and then stepping out of the win
dow without opening 1t he went down
town and got an officer. Both desks and
pupils are now examined every morning
before prayers, and while opening the
days exercises with prayer the teacher
only closes one eye.
IT'S education steers the tutors mind,
Just rs the gun is bent the tute's inclined.
We were greatly shocked to hear of
this incident, for it occurred just at the
time when we are generally visiting the
public shoots, and we might easily have
been shot by accident, for we are not in
favor OF compulsory education and
would not have taken sides In the mat
ter.
As it happened, I was taking a buggy
ride with Mr.. Tigbe toward the lower
works Of the smelling Industry. l had
never visited a Smelter, especially after
driving through q now storm. A brief
description Of the works may ave hun
dreds Of people from having to visit
them, for | will make il so graphic that
you will always remember IL and can
make anybody believe that you have
been through all degrees.
We rode on pleasantly through the
driving snow, and when l got to the
door | had q lap!ul Of the coolest,
Whitest snow one could well Imagine.
1t drifted in behind my spectacles also
and banked one ear full. AS we came
back I filled the other.
Smelling is the art OF extracting all
kinds OF metals by means OF crushing
and broiling the ores. This ore contains
copper and Sc worth Of silver per ton.
AS silver is so low, it is not taken out
of the copper. Owing TO the low price
of silver we hitched the horse and went
90 first to the revolving furnaces, as l
may say, into which the pulverized and
washed ore Is poured. The copper runs
out in a fiery brook such as the Stand
ard man will FISH in when time hangs
heavy on his hands in his eternal home,
probably.
This copper is cooled In large gobs
called mats.
The grinding or pulyeriZlnR and
washing OF the ore to make 1t ready for
smelling would take too long TO de-
scribe, but il is marvellous how much
machinery has taken the place Of men,
for there did not seem to be moro than
an ordinary threshing crew operating
the largest snelter in the world.
D.