The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-02
FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS
The Magnificent Plant of the
Centennial Brewery.
THERE ARE NONE BETTER
All the Modern improvements and
Equipments, Many of Which Are
Not Found in the Famous
Breweries of the East.

In 1876 the foundation was laid for
what now constitutes the magnificent
plant of the Centennial Brewing COM
pany. The firm then consisted of
Sehmid & Gamer, and the brewery
they built was modest, primitive little
affair that gave small promise of the
development it was destined to attain
in later years. Butte then was a strug-
Cling mining camp and the demands for
a brewery Were no greater than those
that Schmid & Gamer were amply able
to meet. With a stated capacity OF 1000
barrels year, the output never reached
the amount, as the trade did net re
quire it. While ii may also be stated
that the beer, though of fair quality,
was not of the best and consequently
not able to stand competition with the
imported article. The old firm contin-
ued in business until February, 1897,
when the Centennial Brewing company
as now existing was organized and IN
coiporated.
Butte's future as a permanent and
growing city being assured, the COM
pany at once inaugurated the system of
engagements and improvements which
has continued ever since and is still go
ing on and has resulted in the modern
and complete establishment it now pos
sesses New and larger buildings have
taken the place of the old and the first
machinery and appliances have long
ago given way to other and better ones
until to-day While there are many
larger ones, no better or more modern
ly equipped brewery can be found in
the United States. 1t may be mat
ter of surprise To many, but nevefthe-
less it is a fact that in numerous re-
spects the Centennial is possessed OF
modern announcements not contained IN
any of the famous breWeres of the
East. This in particular holds good In
the matter of it's facilities for mating
the barley and cooling the various
rooms and vaults of the brewery as
we'll as the crude product of the ket-
ties before it is finally permitted to
emerge as the lager beer of commerce.
To attempt anything like a full and
comprehensive description of the brew
cry and its many necessary adjuncts in
the limited space of an ordinary news
paper article would be impossible.
Hence it is the intention of the Stand
ard to merely give a brief outline, so
that its readers may be enabled to gain
a fair idea of the size of the plant and
its possibilities.
Beginning with the engine room, the
finest in the West. the source of the
power and energy required to move the
multiplicity of machinery used, the first
"a /, 80 ,.I,,,a,. .,,,,,,ol - II l.; ! yvtIta,
oi % -; ~ : IN. -,
.iai..,as "a taes - ;ea ea, faat
p 3ss. =, ~ .o1,e -, -. 49,, 81
49, !. ana 49,. ,s;aht aaabina
So s, - e...,..os =, - n pt4 &c pi,iIadai
80. 80, - - ,,,a,1i,aar -
pilia' Witt - a ~, a,,la -,
eoa q aas. - 80. -, 1T 49,.
- =. .a.l.. -. 81 ,,,aab;ao,,
a,.ho,,a,' n..,anat,,s e., ,,,.iiro ~
.a' = .l1ll,.aa ~, - rasi,.7 aGa
-, - ny 49, ~ h.ttar g,afbad
oI;,, ~ -, - ,,,ea,,s - h,i,,a foraad
,a'.,. - ~ a,,,r,la,,od
-. 49, p.ps5 IT., ,,aa,,;nas fc,oa
- ~ a,s,..e' ,a,,s., ~ - n;,a
- =, ~. -, ttsa a., salo,.a ro,,
- =. ~ 49, ~ - 80, l-set ~ =
.aliiis 49, oas 80. % "a . a.. -,
M " :, oan ~ -, ~ - $500
49, ~ at.t,,;l,,,t ~ 1e,.;,, ,hra,ab
,a.e7 -, ~ ,,,ifo,.,,ai 80
~. t,.,,, Ja,. .aar,fa.at,,, - ,,aas,sa,.u
30 90 80 - - :; .,1,i :, -
1870 .4a.'et LIS 80 ,,,e;a1 tha
-. ~ iil hi,,as - Ia roa nnn,,,
49, 60 -, - -, - -
~ ..;.a n III. ~, - H.
~ ~ ~ - sa,s -. ~
-, - :. s,,.,> =; o,,;,,r =,
a,,en ~ s,.i -, :. ~ n,.ii,.a - than a.
,1 ~. ;i,,,i -, - 10 ,,saa
VI .iea ~ ''is ms - : no 81
,,sta;'ai. ans ,,a,.al., .,;at ;e - 80
,t.st,. a,,aa "a, -. ~ ,i,,,,,eaa
.t,'l,', -. ;,,ai, IT, r,.a,,, sr,ina