The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-10

you in the spring of this year the OIL
Gals of the Boston & Montana and
Butte & Boston companies nave dlli-
gently pursued their investigations,
looking to an effectual remedy for the
smoke nuisance The plan or a tail
stack or chimney, or a combination or
long fiue and stack to the top of one
of the surrounding hills, as mentioned
in our former report, has been carefully
gone over again. AS you are Doubtless
aware, the price of iron and steel mas
more than doubled since April last and
all other supplies have increased very
materially in price, so that the work
would be much more costly even than
given you in the estimates in our for
mer report and would be simply pro-
hibitory-even if we could give the as
surance that it would be effective in
remedying the trouble when erected,
which is by no means certain.
Further investigation has only more
| clearly proven that no remedy can De
found in the various methods of So
called smoke precipitation or condensa-
ton.
There remains only one remedy
which is sure and effectual. and that is
an absolute closing down of the smell
ters.
Under instructions from our Eastern
office and in the absence of our gen.
authorized to say that if an agreement
can be reached with the other compa-
MES operating in and adjacent to the
| city of Butte, we are willing to close
| down the smelter operated by the Bos-
| ton & Montana and Butte & Boston
companies during the 10 or y weeks in
winter in which the smoke trouble is
most serious.
eve have at our office full detail
| drawings and specifications of the var
ious nues and stacks mentioned above.
| and they are at your service at any
| time, Respectfully,
| "Boston & Montana Consolidated Cops
per and Silver Mining Company and
| Butte & Boston Consolidated Mining
Company, by
&c. S. BATTERMAN,
Assistant Superintendent
The Colorado company sent this re-
ply:
Butte, Mont Oct. 30, 1899.
&c. P. Connolly, County Attorney, Sill
yer Bow County, Butte, Mont.
Dear Sir: Your note of the 9th inst.
has been received. We had not COM
municated with your office, as we had
| supposed we We're obliged to make a
formal answer in court to Judge Lind
say on Nov. 1.
ut has been impossible for us to
| study out any system OF com DlIldtlol
of f1ues and stacks which can be con-
| structed at any cost which would be
within reason. Indeed, the only feast
BILE system is estimated at about $780,
co., which is approximately equivalent
to the sum which would be necessary
to construct new smelter at some
| other point. We have consulted witt
the officials of some of the other com
panies operating smelters in Butte an6
find that they have reached practicallJ
| the same conclusion.
Feeling. however, that if our works
are instrumental in contributing to the
discomfort caused by smelter smoke
we should do what is in our power tt
remedy the evil, it has been decided Il
report to you that We have been unable
to figure out any feasible method which
could be adopted at reasonable cost tt
surely and certainly remove the smoke
but that we are willing to join with thu
other companies in closing down oul
smelter for the months in which thi:
trouble is at it's maximum, and to say
to you that in our judgment this is tn,
only method of radically curing tn,
trouble. Respectfully,
Colorado Smelling and Mining Com
pany. by ID. GooDALE.'
F. August Heinze of the Montana