The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-18

to be without a rival in the west respecting both the area of
the deposit and the valuable quality of the product. Then,
too, the recent purchase at Bonner was intended for the bene-
ht of the Washoe company. That property is not quite up
to the capacity of the plant at Hamilton in daily output, but
the Bonner purchase carries, by odds, the largest timber sup.
ply held in private ownership in Montana. 1t will be seen
that the foundations for this new copper company are laid
with reference to a future that is expected to be large, and in
a way that is characteristic of the industrial undertakings
that are projected and fostered by Mr.. Daily.
Washoe-the name sounds well. The Indians furnished il
for use in the modern industrial world. The application o.
the word to the properties in this city is not a novelty in
nomenclature. 1t has figured conspicuously in the modern
mining world; the famous Comstock properties in Nevada
originally worked by Californians are in what became known
as the Washoe district, ard that title was appropriated for
the lode claim that was located by pioneers of the Butte camp
in 1877. 1t is fitting that the present year should witness the
ripening of plans for the large development of the group of
mines that now compose the Washoe properties-the parent
shaft has reached its majority; it was twenty-one years old
last February. 1t will not be the new companys principal
producer, but it furnished the christening for the whole.
There's something in a name. The city that is the STAND
ARDS home has one that is unique. TO the person who is a
stranger within our borders it is a name that sounds uncouth
and the inquiry how it came to be is often started. Those of
us whose abiding place is here know that this city took its
title from the name of the richest copper mine in all the world
1t is not a romantic name, but it is one that has earned the
respect Of the industrial world-a name that is pronounced
with pardonable pride by every citizen of Montana who re-
joces in the upbuilding of the state. Years ago, a pros
pector who to-day is a vener able citizen OF Butte, started the
sinking of a shaft on the hill back Of that city. AT the time.
the incidents of the civil war engrossed public attention.
This prospector read in one of Horace Grecley's New York
Tribune editorials the statement that Grant will surround
Lees forces and swallow them like an Anaconda" Hence
the name of the mine in Butte and Of this city, which is its
offspring. This towns people wouldn't trade its name for
Washoe, yet they will welcome the new contributor TO Ana
condas prosperity not a whit the less heartily.
Year after year since the day of its founding the city Of
Anaconda has been favored with new assurances of perman-
ence and prosperity. In this respect the city has been singu-
larly fortunate. Only a dozen years ago this was a scattered,
ill-built town not a thousand residents strong, who lived at
a stub end Of a local railroad. To-day the citizen of Ana
conda boards at his door the equipped through train of either
one of two transcontinental lines. He can prove talk that to
the stranger might seem boastful about the history OF the
city, its thrift, its magnificent total in manufactures, its
rapid growth, its pleasant homes and substantial business
blocks, its Hearst Free library, its water supply-not sur
passed in qualItyo quantity in the United States-its schools
and churches, its noble hotel, its genial social life, its tidy air
and charming environ. And if this man from Anaconda adds
that his town has a newspaper which is without a rival in any
city of its size in the United ~States-surely that's no lie. So
that Mr.. Days word at parting serves to make the approach
ing holiday season glad for all the communities who have
their share in Anacondas growth. The season is made the
more joyful by the anticipation that, a twelvemonth hence,
the Washoe plant will add its pleasant cadence to the music
OF the steam stamps.