The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-28
AS A SHELTER TOWN
Livingston Possesses Many AdVan-
tages That Nay Prove Valuable.
THE VIEWS OF MR.. WILLIAMS
He Declares That There ls an Ideal
Point Near the City for Reduce
ton Works-A Boy Dragged
by a Horse.
Special Correspondence of the STANDARD.

Special Correspondence Of the Standard.
Livingston. April 26.-This city has
long been looked upon as a favorable
site for the erection and operation of
smelters and concentrating works and
If the development of the contiguous
mineral districts which surround this
city shall continue in the same proper
tionate ratio of increase as Ii has
for two or three seasons pass, the time
soon will come when rne magnificent
natural advantages which abound in
this immediate vicinity Will be utilized.
to the material advancement and up
building OF this ambitious city.
Upon this subject w. IL. Williams, a
practical, experienced mining man
of extensive travel and observation
upon two continents, desires the publi-
cation in the Standard of the following
views which he entertains:
I'm the first place. 1t should be con-
sidered that reduction works should be
placed at the most convenient point in
which necessary products are at hand
to reduce ores.
Second, that coal and coke Is a bull
ky cargo and costly to handle. During
an experience of 80 years or more In
Northwestern mining districts, / have
rarely seen a plant located at a con-
venient point where these products
were within easy reach and hence
economically at hand for use at reduc-
ton works.
Third, there is other necessary ma
terial to be considered, such as fire
clay, silica brick, lime, iron ore. tim
Der and water. These should be in
the immediate vicinity of such plant.
and therefore it. is of great importance
that a wise and careful selection of an
appropriate locality should be made.
to the end that such locality would reap
the benefit of cheap transportation of
everything used in the operation of
reduction works. Given such loca-
ton, that point would become as inn
portant as Swansea, South Wales,
where all these required materials are
within a short distance of the plant.
Amy practical man can clearly see
what a saving there would be in trans
portation-shipping only the ore in
stead of all these other materials. We
all know there Is hardly anything that
requires less space or can be more
readily handled than ore.
In all my travels i have found no
place which is such an ideal point for
the location of reduction works as Law
ingSton, where all the conditions above
noted for the successful and economi
cal treatment of ores are present.
Within the limits of eight miles of
Livingston all these materials are
found, and works erected here would
be able to duplicate the economical
star method which obtains at the
swansea works in Wales"
While out at the suburbs of town
yesterday doing herd duty, Jimmy
Muncaster a 13-year-old boy, fell from
his horse, and becoming tangled in a
rope attached to the horn of the sad
die, was dragged for fully half a mile
- H..
capped alive. The horses in striking a
steep hill, made an abrupt turn and
the boy rolled down the hillside. In
this way the coils of the rope were
loosened and the lad was freed. Mr.
Maginnis, who was out exercising the
fire team, from a distance saw the
horse as ne broke over the brow of the
hill and was Mortified to discover that
a human being was being dragged at
the end of the 50-foot rope. He started
out in an effort to intercept the flying
animal and was close upon him when
the rope slipped from the boys form.
He picked the wounded and bleeding
little fellow UP and found him In
dazed but semi Unconscious condition.
The boys clothing was torn In shreds
and his head and body were badly cut
and bruised. Yet no bones were brok-
en-, and DIR. Alton thinks the lad will
recover.
Sheriff Young escorted Henry Koch
Ter, the burglar, over to Deer Lodge
last night. A four-year sentence was
imposed upon Kohler by Judge Henry.
A longer term would have been his
deserts, but the court having judicial
knowledge of but one of the many
burglaries which Koehler had commit
ted, imposed a sentence adequate for
the one crime which had been charged
and proved.
The general deficiency bill which
the lower branch of congress last week
carries an item of $1,000 for the repairs
and maintenance of existing nine
bridges in Wonderland.
Chairman Kenyon of the democratic
state central committee has appointed
A. c. Logan of Springdale committee
man for Sweet Grass county and DIR.
J. NJ. Fox of Red Lodge for Carbon
county. The Billings Gazette says the
latter gentleman is prominently men
toned in democratic circles for dele
gate to the Chicago convention.