Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-06
THE WORLDS BIGGEST SHELTER.

These mines are located at Butte City, but the
ore is all brought about thirty-seven miles
here to Anaconda to be smelted, and the big
gest smelling works in the world are here.
went through them today. They wall the sides
Of the mountain, covering more than eighty
acres OF space with vast buildings packed full
OF machinery. Great brick chimneys one-third
as high as the Washington monument pierce
the sky as they stand the tops of the
mountains above them, and these are connected
with the works by fues SO large that you could
drive a wagon load Of hay through them with
out touching the walls, This is to give the
proper draught. There are vast en-
gines and great boilers and a wilder
ness OF machinery. The fly wheels Of
the engines are as high as three
story house and the power is conducted by
cables of steel which run from one elevation to
another up the sides Of the mountain. / can
not describe the machinery except to say that
the ore-producing. rock, containing copper,
gold and silver, is pounded into q mush with
great stamps and then filtered and refltered.
run through process after process, until at last
il comes out in the shape Of a metal sand,
which Is taken to other works and reduced to
metal. L remember one room on which this
sand ran over hundreds Of great tables almost
as big around as q small circus tent. and these
were washed by running stream Of water in
such a way that the refuse went off into pipes,
while the copper ore remained on the tables
In other vast rooms covering acres were hun
dreds OF grinding machines which made a noise
like a sewing machine, and there were acres of
settling watts and of almost every imaginable
kind Of machinery.
THE ATMOSPHERE.
1 drove from here to the smelling works and
walked through vast rooms filled with fumes of
sulphur. which make you feel as though a
bushel Of matches were being burned under
your nose, and saw The roasting Of this copper
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largest hogshes1 you have ever seen, and
watched the reddish-golden metal pour out in
streams and run of in cakes the size of a
center table or in blocks like those in which
pig iron is cast. A great MANY of these pro-
cesses are secret and electricity is now being
used to separate the gold and silver from the
copper. The amount of gold and silver in this
Anaconda copper is such that it is believed that
it will eventually bear the cost Of re-
timing and the copper will be pure profit.
1t takes about 1000 men to work this smelter,
and the wages paid them are from S2.50 up
ward per day. Everything is done on the
strictest business methods, but Daly's treat
| ment OF his men is such that he never has a
strike, and they stand up for him through thick
and thin. 1t is this fact that makes him such
a great power among the people in Montana.
He has thousands of employees, and his friends
are legion. visited the smelter at noon. and a
curious sight was that of the men cooking
beefsteak on hot shovels which they rested on
the kettles of molten copper.
HOW MARCUS DAILY LOOKS.
/ met Mr.. Daily during my stay here and had
an hours chat with him. He looks a good deal
like Proctor Knott Of Kentucky, save that his
hair and mustache are gray rather than white
and his head is slightly larger that Knots. He
is a blue-eyed, rosy-faced Irishman Of about
fifty-fve years Of age. He dresses simply and
there are no frills or furbelows about him. He
is full of vigor, and when rode with him from
Butte to Anaconda the other day on the train he
wore a soft hat, rough chinchilla overcoat.
pair of pantaloons which were decidedly with
out the creases Of the New York dude and his
shoes were covered with a pair of rubbers spat-
tered with the mud of Butte City. found him
q good talker and full of plain. practical, every
day common sense. He has a bit of brogue
but his laugh is a hearty one. and he evidently
enjoys life. Marcus Daily is married and he has
a very handsome wife and delightful family.
His car. which cost $4,000, has bed
rooms. parlors, kitchens and bath rooms and
| is used BY the family when they travel As for
Marcus Daily himself he rides in any kind of a
car, and the family live here in Anaconda in
the simplest kind of style. This hotel cost
| something like 100000 and is kept
up at big cost. 1t Is owned BY
DAILY. but his rooms in it are as
] plainly furnished those of MANY of
his employees parlors. and his habits are simple
| in the extreme He rises at about $50 in the
1 tdhes cup Oh COUee ana u Dee1Steak
| and is at work before many of his employees are
! up. He works fast. deciding quickly on every
| thing and showing great executive ability.
l am told that Mr.. DAILY controls S25,-
OO0, 900 worth of property in Montana and it is
| said that the Anaconda property would bring
! $4,000, 600 any day. His monthly pay roll for
labor here in Anaconda alone is more than
s16O. 900 and he pays $4,000 month for the
coal he uses.
DALY's FAMOUS HORSE FARM
Marcus DAILY has some of the fastest horses
| in the world, and he has horse farm not far
from here which contains about $1,000 900
worth of horses. and which includes 1000
acres. He is building a big frame house on
this now, which will have about twenty-nine
rooms. and he says he expects to retire here
| when he gets tired of work. He has IDEAS of
his own with regard to his horses. and had an
interesting conversation with him today about
them. i asked him if he expected to make
money out of his horses or il his racing stock
was not merely one of the luxuries OF a mill
lionaire. He replied:
''Of course / expect to make money out of
| them. No one in Montana goes into luxuries
of that kind for the fun of the thing and If
really thought could not make profit out of
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