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

familiar with them. More than three and onethird millions
for pay rolls in Butte alone and S2,o92,323.25 for the past
year in Anaconda. Fourteen thousand dollars merely for eN-
press charges on precious-metal bullion shipped from this
city; nearly $4,000 for powder used in the Butte properties
and S4r ,76I49 last year, for candles! 1t is a grand total Of
nearly twenty-five and one-half millions of business a year.
Knowing what the Anaconda company's operations have
done towards the upbuilding of Butte, Anaconda and other
Montana towns, you may make a good guess as to what the
effect of the Washoe operations will be on this favored
region. 1t is proposed, at the outset to equip the Washoe
plant for a total production equal to about one-half of that
of the Anaconda company-on that basis the new works in
this city are projected. For the structures the plans are APP
preaching completion. Iron buildings have been planned, the
group including smelter, concentrator, refinery and kindred
structures. Meanwhile estimates have been sent out for
the immense amount of costly machinery which, if the pres
ent schedules can be carried out, will be whirliIg a year from
now, making copper and bringing added prosperity to greater
Anaconda.
In fact, a heavy amount of work incident to the operation
of the new plant has already been accomplished. This week
will finish the Performance of a contract for dtching and
tunneling at a point up the Warm Spring canyon, near Silver
lake. AT that point have been taken the first steps toward
providing a water supply for the Washoe plant. OF course, the
water problem was one of the first of the many questions
that had to be dealt with at the time when the selection of a
site for the new works was the matter to be settled. That
problem is solved. An immense amount of work must be
done before the water flows past this city, at its south side,
and down to the works. But a good beginning has been
made and the suspension of operations, about to occur be-
cause of the season, will be made as brief as possible.
1t is a walk of about forty minutes from the STANDARD
Office to the ground on the foothills just south of the town
where the site for the works of the Washoe company has been
selected. The company is the owner of a large tract of land
there-the portions in which the new structures will stand
have been staked off. Practically the new works will range
directly opposite the concentration at the lower works of the
Anaconda company-the intervening valley being less than a
mile wide. Hereafter the man who approaches Anaconda by
its principal entrance-from the east-will have vast copper
smelling plants to the right of him and to the left of him-on
every hand the city's suburbs will present a busy scene. The
works will follow the gravity rule usually adopted in smelter
construction. they will cover the broad foothill slope stretch
ing back to the south of the line Of the Butte, Anaconda x
Pacific railroad. The STANDARD has information which war
rants the announcement that, at the outset about 81, 100000
will be put into the construction of the Washoe plant.
Meanwhile, for the uses of the company many valuable
properties have already been secured. One of the most i'm
portant Of these is the Diamond coal field in Wyoming, pur-
chased several months ago, 4 coal property which is claimed