The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-15
HORR is DOING WELL
Pay Day Brought Big Business TO the
Merchants and Oilers.
ALL ABOUT A NEW COUNTY
Many Little Matters Somewhat
Mixed Up About the People of
Park and the Surrounding
Country.
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LIVINGSTON, March 13.-Next Saturday
will be pay day at the coal camp of Horn
and the Montana Coal d Coke company
will disburse about 5000.
From w. II. Rhoades, who is in the city
from Horr on a weeks vacation, it is
learned that the company is now produc-
ing a better quality of coke than has ever
been shipped from the camp in tho past.
The coal is all being taken from the new
mines. known as the Anaconda proper
ties. When the new company began ope-
ration a year ago, the outlook was rather
discouraging. The old mines on this side
of the hill had beeh worked out and the
coal from the new mines would not coke
in a satisfactory manner, and the story
was circulated that the coal was rotten
and that the Montana Coal d Coke COM
pany would not be long in joining it's
predecessor, the defunct Park Coal d
Coke company. The stories, however,
have been proved groundless and the new
company bids fair TO become one of the
solid mining concerns of Park county.
A splendid quality of coal has been en-
countered and the supply is said to be
practically inexhaustible.
The main vein is pierced by n tunnel
shoots are tapped by four shorter tunnels.
The amount of coal being mined at pres
ent is something over 30 tons per day and
il is all being manufactured into very
superior quality of coke, which finds a
ready market at Butte and Anaconda.
The company has about 20 men on its pay
roll and the expenses are n trfle over 500
per day. The price paid for mining coal
is 10 cents per ton. The number of ovens
now IN operation is 36.
The company is making preparations to
greatly increase the present capacity OF
the works and before next fall expect TO
be producing 100 tons of coke per day.
Manager Gaylord of the Parrot smelter
has made thorough test of the Horn coke
and pronounces il as good as any manu-
featured in the state.
The company is now engaged in con-
structing a large ilume $500 feet in length
from the washer at the mines to the coke
ovens on this side of tho hill. This will
take the place of the long tramway and
will reduce the cost of production % or 80
cents per ton. The water supply is ample
10 flume 10 the ovens all the coal that can
be handled to advantage. Taken all in
all the future prospects of the company
are exceedingly bright and will place j.
AOuTdu Oh us lttA again III EOOu shape.
j. Z. Swindlehurst has purchased from
Receiver Mercer of the Livingston Ma
tional bank two business lots on the east
side of Main street for consideration of
5000. One contains store building oc-
cupied by J. w. Patton x Co., and the
other is the vacant corner lot opposite
Nolan Bros. hardware store.
The work of transcribing tho records of
Park county for the new county of Sweet
Grass will be let by contract by the COM
missioners of Sweet Grass county at Blg
Timber on Friday. March -. There will
probably be about 1900 or 1900 folios,
and it is estimated that the cost to the
new county will be in the neighborhood of
$1,000. A large number of bids have
already been submitted. Among the bid
ders from this city are eN-County Clerk 5.
Deutch, Commissioner Maurice Roth,
Charles Tappan and 4. L. Bloomburg.
William Hruza, of the firm of Harvey x
Co., butchers of this city, has been in
Whitehall the past week arranging to
start n branch meat market at the now
town of Gaylord.
Conductors Yancey and Edwards and
Brakeman Walters left for st. Paul to-
day TO undergo the prescribed optical and
other examinations required of railroad
men.
NJ. II. Lucas of Red Lodge and Libby v.
Rickner of Winchester, Ind, have been
licensed To commit matrimony.
All barber shops in the city will be
closed next Sunday in accordance with
the new law providing for the Sunday
closing of all tonsorial parlors. The bar
bers are very much pleased with the Iegis-
lative act, but the patrons of the shop do
not like il a bit. Tie proprietors of the