The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1896-01-17
IN THE COPPER CITY
A NEW OPERA HOUSE TO BE BUILT
IN THE SPRING.


Ihe People of Anaconda Get the News in
the New Notwithstanding John II.
Eardley for Secretary of State-The
Standards Forces on the Move
Special to the NEW NORTHWEST
ANACONDA, January 16.
The NEW NORTHWEST is in a position
to announce positively that new opera
house will be built in Anaconda early
next spring. For several seasons past
the question of new opera house in
this city has been agitated. On different
occasions it appeared that building
suitable for amusement purposes would
be erected immediately Each time
these arrangements failed before COM
pletlon. The spring Of the capital cleo
ton plans were drawn for magnificent
structure to stand on the corner opposite
the Standard building on Main street.
subsequently, however, the proposition
was dropped for that year. 1t was re-
vlved again last spring and the matter
seemed on the point Of taking definite
shape, when once more something oc-
Cured to interfere with the arran cement
and Anaconda was compelled to 20 an
other year without suitable theatre.
Ihere seems no reason to doubt that
now, however, the city is to have a first
class theatre and that the work of con-
struction will begin early next spring.
This much may be announced at this
time as positive fact: That new plans
for commodious and a very handsome
theatre have recently been drawn, ar
engagements have been completed for the
site and bids will be asked for within 80
days. This will be in the nature Of glad
tldings to the people Of the Copper City.
The present opera house is one of the
worst to be found in any city of this size
III the United States. The building is
shabby and it has none of the attractive
ness Of a theatre The stage is small and
the appointments are miserable. While
the arrangements have not, of course,
been definitely made it is reasonable to
assume that John Mcguire will manage
the new place OF amusement
The fact that the New NoRTlrwEsT
was the first newspaper to announce to
the public the preparations that are
making for the construction Of a new
smelling plant Of mammoth proportions
in the city Of Anaconda next spring has
given some alleged newspaper men in
TINS neck OF the woods the jim jams. A
sheet that is published after dark in this
city about once fortnight feels very
badly because it has been left in this i'm
portant item Of news. 1t whines out a
pltliul tale Of woe about the manner in
which Its field is being occupied by the
NEW NORTHWEST 1t says that the An
aconda company is not in the habit Of
taking newspapers into its confidence
and therefore the New NORTHWEST
could not have gotten the inside facts
concerning the new smelter In the
next sentence the journalistic pimple
announces that it is in position to know
positively that the Anaconda company
has nothing whatever to do with the pro-
posed new smelter. The reading public
will be interested in knowing that while
the Anaconda company does not take
newspapers into its confidence that there
is little sheet published in Anaconda
every once in while that is right on the
inside. The Standard of course, cannot
get at the facts at all. The mouth piece
OF the Anaconda company is the degen-
crate offspring Of the late lamented Re-
view. Nevertheless the facts remain
before the public Of this city that the
NEW NORTHWEST, published 30 miles
from the city Of Anaconda, was the first
newspaper to announce the news con-
cerning the proposed new smelter The
statement is here repeated, in all candor,
that the contract has been let for the
construction of eight miles and a half of
railroad to run along the south side of the
canyon in which this city is situated; that
the work Of construction will begin as
soon as the snow leaves the ground; that
Toole & TWohy, the contractors OF this
city, have been awarded the contract;
that the road is being built out of the net
earnings of the B. A. & P. railroad; that
new smelter of very large proportions
will be built not far from the Tuttle
foundry next summer; that the machin-
cry is now being ordered for the new
plant; that men interested in the Ana
conda company are also interested in this
new enterprise; that the smelter, which
it is intended to build, will add at least
700 men to the payroll of this city within
the next 12 months; that the ores of some
of the mines of the Camp Creek district,
as we'll as the ores of the Washoe and
Poulin mines of Butte, will be brought