The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-29
IT IS A BIG PLANT
The Shops Of the futile Company
Cover Acres Of Ground.
THE BEST IN THE WEST
Hundreds of Skilled Workmen Who
Turn Out Ponderous Machin-
ery-The ompany's Two
Big Retail Stores.

The foundry and machine shops of
the futile Manufacturing and Supply
company form a gigantic institution,
and Chicago or San Francisco would
have to be visited to find works with
which comparison could be made. The
buildings cover over $4,000 square feet
of ground and each department is fur
nished with the very latest improved
machinery. While the company makes
a speciality of manufacturing such
things as are used mostly about mines,
they draw no lines, and will do an
equally good job on a steel toothpick
or a big boiler or converter. over so
per cent. of the 300 employees of the
works are skilled mechanics and the
work turned out is in the nature OF a
revelation to competitors.
An idea of the capacity OF the shops
may be gained from the fact that dur
ing the present year over 100000
pounds of castings were turned out.
They manufactured during the year 20
S0-horse power and "a 6o-horse power
boilers All of the $4,000 feet covered
by the buildings represents a scene OF
activity that is simply wonderful In
the pattern department are IL mechan-
les and two apprentices, and out OF
this room is turned every day patterns
When not in use they are numbered
and stored in a special building erect
ed for the purpose and separated from
the other buildings of the works.
West of the pattern shop is long
building used as a warehouse, and In
this is stored the supplies for the two
big stores of the company in Butte and
Anaconda. 1t would be no exaggera-
iton to say that il would be impossible
to call for anything in the hardware
line that could not be found in this
warehouse. And so systematically Is IL
arranged that an order is filled In a
wonderfully short space of time. Not
only are the railroad tracks convent
ent, but a wagon road runs to the en-
frances of the shipping shed and every
facility for the handling of heavy cast
ings is at hand and the time lost in
loading and unloading is cut to an in
significant figure.
In the big foundry, which is 1872 feet
long and ~ feet wide, are eighty men.
All of the heavy castings are handled
by an electric crane that travels the
entire length of the building. and
handles the big molds with the tender
ness of a mother fondling her first
baby. The necessity for this piece of
machinery could only be understood by
4 those who have witnessed the delicate
work IL is called upon to perform. The
slightest jar would in a moment undo
the careful work that a skilled me-
chanic had been engaged upon for
hours. In this department are two
cupolas for the melting of metal one
with a capacity of $4,000 and the other
is, 900 pounds per hour. OF of the main
room of the foundry is the core room
and the brass foundry.
The blacksmith, boiler and machine
shops are complete in their appoint
I Mi he
| latest devices for the handling of al
kinds of work with the least possible
/ loss of time.
In connection with the. foundry the
| futile company manages two large
/ hardware stores in Butte and Anacon-
da. They both rank among the largest
establishments of the kind in the West
The Butte house is the larger of the
! two, the extensive warehouse at the
foundry In Anaconda obviating the
! necessity for an extensive store room
in the establishment While the CHIEF
claim of these two houses is that 9
complete line of hardware is carried al
| all times, they make a speciality Of
handling certain articles for which they
have the exclusive agency in Montana
Among these are the Fairbanks scales
and the Garland and Majestic stove,
and ranges. The latter are admitted L
be the finest in the world and the Tut
tie company added to it's laurels anC
the manufacturers to their incom'
when the agency for Montana wa
placed with the latter.
The Anaconda house also carries
full line of crockery and glass an,
china ware They import the latter di
rect and have on display some set
that are beautiful beyond description
One part of the Anaconda store
given up to this department and tn
goods are arranged with excellent tast
making that section of the room yer,
attractive. 1t requires about 40 EN-
ployes to handle the business of tn
two stores.
Everything You Want.