The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-07
GREAT Is BUTTE.

"Greatest Mining Camp on Earth"
From the Montana Mining and Market Re-
porter
Butte has 10 mines over I,OO0 feet in
depth.
There are 3,4sO patented claims in the
Butte district.
The Moulton company keeps 10 stamps
dropping the year around.
The production of the mines since 1881
has been 246, 207 900 tons of ore.
Butte has been prosperous mining
camp sine the LIST day of July, 1877.
New buildings to the value of 81, 750, 900
were constructed during 1894.
The trains in and out of Butte carry an
average of 1000 people per day.
If it was not for Butte one railroad
could handle all tho business of this
state.
The Parrot smelter produces about
100000 pounds of pure copper every
month.
The largest mines in and around Butte
yield moro copper than any other metal.
The output of the Anaconda mines per
day is $500 tons of copper and silver ores.
There are $500 men employed in tho
mines and mills surrounding tho city of
Butte.
The Parrot company has 200 men
working at the smelter and 210 employed
in the mines.
The different occupations outside of the
mines represent a working army of 1900
people.
The pay rolls per month to the wage
earners on mines amounts to a little over
Sl,o00O0O.
The daily output OF the mines of Butte
from all sources aggregate $500 tons OF
ore per day.
The freight business of the city-out-
side of ore shIpments-amounts to $780,
600 pounds per annum.
The reduction works of Butte and Ana
conda combined represent an invested
capital of over s14, 100000.
The Blue Bird mill has 80 stamps in sus-
pension. but the mine is making daily
output. under lease.
There are $50 stamps now hung up in
the mills of Butte on account of the low
price of silver.
The pay roll of the Anaconda company
exceeds that of any other mining COM
pany on the face of the earth.
No city in the northwest has finer or
taken from the mines to build them.
Sixty-six trains arrive and depart daily
from the Butte railway depots. including
passenger, freight and ore trains.
The Colorado smelter, which was burned
down six months ago has been rebuilt
and is now working 100 tons of ore per
day,
Butte Is a more extensive mining camp
than Leadville. and its business interests
are as permanent as Chicago or New York.
The coal consumption of Butte is esti-
mated at loo tons per day. Mostly all
the coal produced in the state is consumed
in Butte.
Tho output of copper from the Ana
conda smelters since 1856 up to the pres
ent time is closely estimated at 6OO.OJO,OO)
pounds.
The amount of money paid to the farm
ers annually as a source of revenue from
the mines OF Butte amount to about ST.
10000.
The copper veins of the Butte district
average in width from % to 100 feet and
are inexhaustible, as shown up to the
present time.
The Lexington is the only producer in
Butte that has not dropped a stamp for
over three months. They have 60 stamps
hung up.
The strongest union in Butte is the
Butte Miners union, numbering goo
members. All the labor unions combined
have 6 $50 members.
The banking capital of Butte Is =. 5O0.-
coo. and the deposits are over s. so, OOl.
while the exchange business amounts TO
SIS, OO0.OJO per anuum.
The largest smelling plant IN the world
is al Anaconda, and they get every ounce
Of their ore out Of the Butte mines owned
by the company.
The shaft house of the CaCuou IS within
few hundred feet Of tho court house.
This is one OF the largest producers and
best paying mines IN the Butte district.
The Butte g. Boston own - paying pro-
pertIas IN toe Butte district. Tue total
output of ore from these mines Is 300
tons per month, from which there is taken