The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-03-19
MONTANA HEADQUARTERS.
Mining Men not Compslisd to Ordor Mn,
ohtnery From The East,

Mining Men NOS Compslisd to Order Ma.
ohtnery From the East.
A Corliss engine Of 100 horse power. made
at tho sioux City, Iowa. engine works. re-
GENTLY sot up In the store OF tho Hotter
Hardware company. IL attracting a q ost
deal Of attention. II 10 a beautiful piece Of
mechanism. nlckel-plated. all Of tho latest
design. Tbs engines Of this and other
manufactures 10 kept In stock by the Hotter
COMPANY, and tllust tntes the growth OF
thor business In this line. and their inton-
ton 70 give mining men ana others no OK.
cuso TOR sending east for machinery. Man
aQer PAtenaude, referring TO II Yesterday.
said the house kept in stock always engines
from two to lOO horse power, consisting OF
the Coiliss, high speed, automatic and plain
slide valve. and boilers up to eighty horse
power. as we'll 40 air compressors. pumps,
in mining operations. "The great advan-
tago in this" continued Mr.. Patenauds,
.l,es In the fact that in oase OF
nn accident to q pump or any
other piece OF machinery. instead OF
4 delay OF days or weeks, We are always
prepared to ship tho parts, or tho whole, OF
needed. A little while ago tho Livingston
Coal and Coke company t%eloRraphsd to
their representative in Helena TINT owing
to an accident to the air compressor they
were compelled to shut down. and ordering
q cylinder to BIO shipped immediately. We
had in stock the article required, and II was
sent by express from Helena three hours
after the order came, and the next day it
was In place and the min running. Had
1t been necessary to send east for tho mr.
ticle the company would hive been de-
leyed ton or fifteen days. Only u duv or
two ago the manager OF the Golden Leaf
Mining company rode in from the miue at
four O'Clock In the morning. Something
about the pump had broken and the
water was coming up fast. We had the
article in stock. furnished II. and by nine
O'Clock II was ia place in the mine.
Another advantage that ia gained by our
is that II they want a complete
outtit quickly, to start M a mine. We can
sentatives Of the Gait Mining Go. in the
district ordered some machinery
from us. We had it at the warehouse on
the Northern Pacific right-of-way. 1t was
at seven O'Clock in the evening, the
next day 1t was shipped. and when the
cite, arrived at the mine informing the
people that the machinery had been pur-
the latter ~ on the side track
ready to be unloaded."
Mr.. Patenaude s,ys since the first of tbs
year the sales of mining machinery have
larger than ever before for a like
They have recently supplied tbs
Great Belt Mining & Milling company with
set of six-foot Frue vanners, the Iron
Mountain company with a big hoist and
now boilers. Other companies supplied
machinery are the Americsn Devolop-
d. Mining company. OF Ma,ysvilie.
Helena 81 Frisco. Of Gem, Idaho, Helena &
Livingston Mining g. Reduction company,
Blue Canyon Coal company, at Now What
comb. Warrington state. Basin & Elkhorn
company, ]. j. Hennessey, at Rim
mi. and the Bunker Hill g. sullivan in the
d'Alenes. The Hotter Hardware
company also recently supplied a 2OO-horse
engine and a battery of boilers for
,anv, of Bozemau, in competition with 81.
and Chicago people. This is a sufi-
proof that whom it comes to prices
hey can meet eastern competition.