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

"This time next year, if all goes well, the Washoe COM
panys works will be a completed plant and Anaconda will
have a bigger Christmas than ever" SO said Marcus DAILY,
last Thursday evening, as he stood on the platform of the
railway station in Anaconda, grip in hand and ready to board
the east-bound train for a journey that will. land him in New
York. 1--WE are not ringing any bells about it, up and down
the streets" continued Mr.. DAILY, but we are working away,
all the same, at the preliminaries, and therell be busy times
just below town, next summer, in building the plant-it will
be a pretty big one" That was all there was for Mr.. DAILY
to say. 1t was time for the train to start; his parting remarks
respecting the intentions of the Washoe Copper company
seemed to be a sort of Merry Christmas salutation left with
his Anaconda townsmen.
This is the glad news Anaconda has been waiting for. All
sorts of rumors have been rife respecting the plans of the
Washoe company. Many months ago, a report managed to
make it's way into the channels of current rumor to the effect
that it was the intention of the owners of the Washoe group
in Butte to begin the active operation of their properties.
That was enough to start everybody guessing as to the loca-
ton of the plant for the smelling and refining of the product
of these Butte mines Indeed, it is no secret that several
localities in Montana were taken by the Washoe company
under careful consideration. Each locality had its points Of
vantage; it was a question that was not to be decided be-
tween phases of the moon. Now this locality was in favor,
now that. But the people of these parts, naturally and deeply
interested in the outcome, banked right along on Mr.. DAILY,
firm in the belief that, while, of course, he would be guided
by business judgment in the matter, he would nevertheless
remember Anaconda in all the plans, and, other things being
equal, let this town get the benefit of the splendid acquisi-
ton to local growth and prosperity.
This new contribution to Anaconda's industrial life is
gloriously worth the having-the biggest city in the land
would be glad to get it. AS is well known, the Washoe prop
critics in Butte have resources that are ample for the main
tenance of a smelling plant of proportions that would be con-
sidered large even when put in comparison with the vast Ana
conda. On that score, it is within the ability of the Washoe
properties TO take rank among the worlds great copper pro-
ducers. The truth is that, when expressed in figures, the
totals of operations by the Anaconda company are so great
that the industrial results at plants which really are immense
seem small to us.
Take in illustration the official figures in the report of the
Anaconda company for the fiscal year that ended a few
months ago. They mount up into millions, whether the unit
be ounces of silver, pounds of copper or tons OF ore. Thus,
for the twelve months referred to, I,459,24o tons of dry ore
were brought by rail to the works in this city from the mines
in Butte. There were shipped from Anaconda, after treat
ment of the ore in this city, Ia4,4IS,ooo pounds Of copper;
s,o7+o56 ounces of silver; I35,a44 ounces of gold. All the
items that enter into the Anaconda company's expenditures
for a year would impress US by their aggregate were we less