The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-19
CREAM OF THE FORESTS
The Rough Timber Converted
Into Finished Lumber.
A BIG CONCERNS CAREER
Enormous Output of the Mammoth Saw
and Planning Mills Operated by the
the Anaconda Company Dur
ing the Present Year.

Few are the years that have passed
since when the only sawmills in Mon
tana We're small, primitive affairs, the
| yearly capacity of which barely equaled
| the daily output of one of the large
modern mills which are now converting
the forest monarchs into lumber and
the almost innumerable other articles
| into the composition of which timber
| enters. As for planning mills, there We're
none, save those operated by the manu-
al toll of the carpenter, who laboriously
pushed his jack-plane or smoother over
the boards that lay on the bench in
front of him. All this is now changed,
and some mills as large and as fully
equipped as any in the country are now
being run in the state. Foremost
among them is the one operated by the
Anaconda Copper Mining company,
lumber department, at Hamilton, In
the Bitter Root valley. The mill is ca
pable of turning out 100000 feet of
rough lumber per day and maintains a
daily average output of 100000 feet.
The machinery in use there is all of
the latest and best. and the equipment
of the mill is complete in every detail.
| While the manufacture of mining tim
bers is made a speciality, all other kinds
of timbers and lumber, including laths,
are cut.
\ large planning mill and sash and
door factory are operated in connection
with the sawmill, and like the other
institution neither of them is lacking
in anything that could add to it's COM
pleteness of detail or arrangement. BY
reason of having these plants the COM
pany is able to turn out any kind of
mill work for the interior finishing of
residences, stores, public buildings, etc.
To operate the mills and keep them
supplied with the raw material neceS-
a n iG
which is equally divided among mill
hands proper. teamsters and loggers.
In addition to the planning mill at Ham
ilton the company also has another at
Anaconda, which is kept busy supply
ing the needs of the smelters and the
unusual local demand caused by the
many recent improvements and great
growth of the city, the present being
the banner building year thus far in the
city'S history.
At Butte the company maintains
large yards and warehouses. Here q
stack of no less than 100000 feet of
lumber is constantly kept on hand,
while the warehouse is filled with sash,
doors, mouldings, building paper glass
of all kinds and other materials re-
CURED for interior work. The stock
undoubtedly constitutes the largest of
the kind carried in the state. Most of
these articles are manufactured by the
company at Hamilton but in order to
be able to supply all demands of the
trade a complete assortment of eastern
goods. such as oak and maple flooring,
newell ports, bannisters rails, white
pine sash and doors, and particularly
cottage front doors, is kept on hand.
While much of the companys business
at Butte is retail the yards there are
also the distributing point for the near
by mines of that locality.
Oregon and Washington lumber hav-
ing become very popular of recent years
for finishing purposes. the eompany's
Butte yards contain an immense stock
of fir and cedar doors. fir ceiling and
joists, and also cedar shingles and
porch columns. Besides these large
quantities of white pine and red and
white oak finishing material is also car
ried. Thirty men are employed in the
yards and eight teams are kept con-
stantly busy delivering to customers.
During the present year the company
has delivered about 1000 600 feet of
lumber for sidewalks in Butte. and it
also has the contract for supplying the
city and county with all the lumber and
timbers they use.
The stock carried in the Hamilton
yards is never allowed to fall below 80
100000 feet, and all the large shipments
to dealers and mining companies are
made from there direct. on an average
10 carloads are forwarded daily. Be
sides furnishing all the lumber and tim
befS used in the Anaconda mines, the
company also supplies the Alice, Par
rot and several of the other large min
ing companies of Butte.
Among the more prominent buildings
erected i'll Butte during the present
year for which the company has fur
nished the lumber and mill work may
be mentioned the Lennox, Maryland,
Bee Hive and Harrington blocks, the
new st. Lawrence Catholic church now
building at Centeryille. the extensive
addition Pat Mullen is making to his
hotel and store. also at Centerville: the
School of Mines, the Dowd block and
the -. j. Hennessy Mercantile COM
pany building. In addition the COM
pany also supplied the same kinds of
materials for the improvements made
i'm the track and building of the West
Side Racing association and for the res
licences of w. d. Clark. j. II. Lynch,
Alex Mcmahon, j. Shagro, Mrs. Lang
staff and many others. To John West
on and Phil Hamill the company sup
piled the tamarack in which their
houses are furnished, and of which the
company makes speciality.
At Anaconda the company is fur
nishing the lumber sash. doors. etc,
for the new public school house. new
b.. A. & T.. passenger station, public
library building. Durston block, besides
many other business blocks and resi-
dences.
This description. of necessity brief
and incomplete. will, nevertheless, give
an idea of the magnitude of the bust
ness done by the company, and the coll
ossal scale on which 1t conducts it's OPP
eIyltions.