The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-11
Col. w. s. Brackett Sings the
Praises of Montana.
ITS GREAT RESOURCES
A Vast Inland Empire. Which VIII Ono
Day Bs q Happier Pennsylvania.
b Coal Resources Are
Simply Enormous.

PtoPiC VI ~ EoSl AuOW VI the re-
sources of Montana and the character
Of it's people. In a recent interview in
the Peoria Journal he says:
1T is quite impossible for any man
to know the great young giant state Of
Montana. with ITS enormous
in mines, agriculture and stock raising,
as ! ave known IL for 10 years past,
and not be o of that wondrous land
and its brave people.
Its grand ~snow-capped mountains.
its fertile and lovely valleys, its blue
lakes and crystal streams, flowing some
toward the Atlant and some toward
the Pacific; n last but not least. the
brave. dauntless people of that noun
tain land. h most American of all
Americans. appeal to a man in the
strongest kind of a way. The Indians
of Lewis and Clarke's time used to
call Montana The Land of the Shin
ing Mountains" Some day in that
beautiful land. in that vast inland en-
pire, another n a happier Pennsyl-
vania will arise.
Better and more humane laws than
we now have will be there evolved
through a high n advancing Ameri-
can civilizations; better conditions in life
for all will prevail; there in that land
will be ordained n conserved a true
American life, such as was hoped for
by the fathers who founded our insti-
buttons in the American revolution. A
high level of material being will there
prevail, and industrial slavery shall
there forever be unknown. Life will
not seem to be only for the favored few.
but Will be for the whole body of the
people. Montana is an un~developed en-
pire. It's area is more than twice the
area of the six New England states
combined. Its climate is the best on
earth.
THE coal of Montana are
simply enormous. Everybody knows of
the great sheep and cattle grazing in
dustries of Montana Few people, how
ever, realize that his young Rocky
mountain state now leads all the min
eral producing states of America in the
enormous value of her output. Blu
such is the fact. as shown by the off,
cial statistics. Colorado is the most
advertised, but Montana is greater than
Colorado.
For the year 1897 Montana was
ahead of Colorado, California. Arizona
inc Idaho. The total value of the gold,
silver. copper and lead product Of these
states for 1897 was: Montana, $4O,227,-
500: Colorado. 1884, $780, 900: California.
SIS, $50, 900; Arizona, 81, 235, 500, and
Idaho, $40. 021 900.
The city of Butte. Mont. is now the
greatest copper mining center in the
WOIiu. Int AIldCODud copper mines at
Butte alone hoist up and deliver to the
smelters at the little city of Anaconda,
20 miles away. 5000 ons of copper ore
per day. Please make no mIstake-I
said 5000 o of copper ore hoisted and
delivered from these mines alone every
"a hours.
Now, a great many Eastern people
hin Butte is only a moribund silver
mining camp. Well, they have got a
lot of great silver mines at Butte, of
course, but they are all shut down.
Silver is now only q bi-product OF the
great copper mines Of that district. No
body in Montana that I have met is
weeping over the characterization OF sill
YER. People in Montana are. with
mighty energy and happy faces, OPEN
ing up the stupendous treasures of her
mountains. Copper, inc the marvel
GUS electrical inventions of the past 10
years, is the king metal of the world.
The demand for copper is as universal
as civilization. Wherever the tele-
phone, the dynamo and electric light
and electric power go in the wide world.
copper goes, too. and must go. The
total value of the copper product of
Butte alone for 1897 was over $40, OOO, 900.
In 20 years Butte alone has produced
nearly $500. 900. 900 worth OF gold, cop
per and silver.
THE science of mining has reached a
~ III Nht Dun
mining district than in any other min
ing region in the world. It is admitted
by scientific miners from Africa, Eu-
rope, California and Nevada tina the
methods and appliances of the Butte
mining companies are far in advance
of those of any other people or local
ity. The vast three compartment shafts
of Butte, sunk deep in the granite rock
and equipped with the mightiest hoist
ing, pumping and ventilating machin-
cry that can be built by the art of man
are among the wonders of this age Of
wonders. Underground, the tunnels,
crosscuts. slopes, drifts and levels
blaze with 10000 electric lights.
The art Of man in our great century
OF inventions. conQuers the darkness
and difficulty of plutonic regions 1000
feet below the surface.
THE mining payroll of Butte is ST.
000.0 900 per month, No labor. in n
about the mines there. even surface
work. Is paid less than SO per day. The
labor union are nowhere in the world
more powerful than in Butte. They
dictate and dominate many things.
The general diffusion of this vast
monthly wage of labor makes great
prosperity among merchants and all
classes of business men. The mining
companies seem to be able to pay this
high wage scale. although the price of
copper is only IL cents per pound.
1t In said the bi-product of gold and
silver In the copper ores of the Butte
district pays all the expenses of min
ing n smelling.
Butte has n of the best selected
public libraries in the United States. A
wealthy man. now living. Charles Lar |
rabee. gave part of his vast fortune. |
made in mining for a public library.
John F. Davies. a fine scholar pro- |
fessional librarian. who had been for
many years first assistant librarian of
the public library Of st. Louis, Mo-, |
was appointed librarian and given carte
blanche to buy the books some years
ago Seldom has any librarian in the
world ever had such an opportunity. |
Mr.. Davies bought the books with rare
intelligence and fidelity to his great
trust. In the public library of Butte
he a built for himself an eternal
monument. Few such well selected IL |
braries exist anywhere in the world.