The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-01

interests alone We're compelled to meet
the entire expense.
Il have no well-formulated plan in
mind concerning the manner in which
this money can or should be raised, but
among others the following is an out
line of what seems to me as fairly
equitable, but is presented without
pretense that the legal points involved
have received any consideration what
ever.
Let the city of Butte and the county
of Silver Bow lend their credit in such
proportion as may seem equitable by
the floating of bonds, or otherwise, to
the extent of one third of the amount
required for CONSTRUCTION, payment of
the bonds maturing. say, at 20 years
from date. ITO be secured by a tax upon
the property values as assessed within
the city and county limits during this
period.
Another source toward which I shall
look for a portion of these funds may
seem somewhat precarious, for I have
not the assurance of a single operator
that such a plan would receive favor
able consideration, but I have faith to
believe that when the question is seri-
ously considered and the matter prop
erly presented to the smelling cOmpa-
MES operating in our vicinity, they will
voluntarily guarantee a royalty upon
the tonnage Of ore worked of, say, from
five to ten cents per ton. this royalty to
be reduced after certain proportion
of the cost shall have been paid in by
them. This may appear as an embargo
upon the smelling industry, but it will
certainly cost less for those engaged
in the reduction of ore to volunteer this
royalty than it will cost to move a
plant, and it will cost less than the
railroad freights required of those who
contemplate shipping ore to other local
tiles for treatment, and I shall expect
these operators to perceive that a por-
ton of the money thus expended will
be returned to them in the better health
and greater satisfaction of the men in
their employ, which will follow the i'm
proved conditions under which they will
be required to labor
For the remaining third of the funds
required l think we may depend upon
subscriptions from our business men
and residents here to an incorporated
stock company that should take the
matter in hand, and I think that with
tWO-thirds of the required funds Sc
cured in the manner herenbefore indi-
Gated subscriptions to this company
may be offered as paying investment.
I do not anticipate that the profits from
t1ue dust will be very great, and l feel
that the various companies should have
the privilege Of erecting any character
of chamber or dust arrester they may
desire, but after the fumes have en-
tered the main flue all dust and pro-
ducts settling therein will become the
property of such corporation and |
shall expect that term of years will
show something of revenue from this
source.
This appears to me as the most posi-
tive and efficient method of dealing
with our sulphur fumes. and the CUES
ton here recurS whether or not flues
upon the plan l have outlined would
secure us entire immunity therefrom,
a question which | think it will be i'm
possible to answer with absolute GER
tainty until such tlues are actually con-
structed. 1t will be remembered, how
ever, by our older residents that there
We're many furnaces continually at
work in copper smelling before any in
convenience whatever was experienced
from the fumes discharged and that
for some years after they became no
ticeable an occasional visitation was
regarded as benefcerce rather than
a menace to public health. and those
physicians who have practiced longest
in Butte will probably agree in regard
ing a periodical sulphur bath, when ad-
ministered in the milder form, as a