The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-21
ANACONDA NEWS.
VISITED THE SHELTERS
And Inspected the Refinery and
Converters.
ENGINEERS IN ANACONDA
Fifty-Six Members Of the American In
= stitute OF Mining Engineers Spent
tho Day Here En- Route to
San Francisco.

Mining engineers by the score
swarmed over Anaconda Yesterday.
viewed the city, the works and every
thing else Anaconda possesses, and af-
ter tour through the smelters went to
Gregson Springs to boil the sulphur
smoke out of them. They returned in
the evening, tired and happy, dined and
at IL o'clock last evening started away
for San Francisco on their special train
y. Lots of tourists come to Anaconda
and go through the works, asking ques-
lions that plunge the people who are
acting as their escorts into deep, gloomy
despair. They have an ignorance upon
them that is thick enough to cut into
bars and sell for bullion. No one ever
calls their attention to their ignorance
and they are sent away blissfully I'M
conscious of the fact that they have
left an impression SO bad it is several
degrees below zero
1t wasn't this way with the excursion
of the American Institute of Mining
Engineers. They appreciated what they
saw, so that the officials who showed
them through and the employees they
met took great delight in unfolding the
mysteries of the plant to them 1t
was a party of highly educated and
thoroughly practical professional peo-
pie who were looking at one of the most
gigantic institutions in their profession.
Hence their interest was natural. But
more than that, even the ladies of the
party understood things. In their asso-
citation with mining engineers these la
dies have evidently absorbed a large
knowledge of the PROFESSIONS tech
nique.
The party, which numbered Sc, ar
rived in Anaconda by special train be-
tween and o'clock yesterday morn
ing from Butte. In the train were three
Pullman cars, three Wagner cars, a
dining car, baggage car and a car for
the attendants. Two cars of the train
left New York city last Friday at p.
m. The other cars were added at Chi
cago, where the bulk of the party
Joined. Leaving there on the North
western railway Saturday afternoon
the special ran through to st. Paul,
where it was transferred to the Great
Northern tracks. No stops of import
ance were made until Great Falls was
reached.
At Great Falls, despite the fact that
the train had been delayed and did not
arrive until II p. m. Monday the citi-
zens gave the party pleasant recep-
ton, showed them through the smelt-
ers and about the city and sent them
on their way rejoicing at 2 a., m. The
party spent Tuesday in Butte, being
entertained by Butte members of the
institute.
At IL o'clock last evening the special
train containing the party left Ana
conda over the Northern Pacific for
Spokane. Several hours will be spent
a that city and then the train will run
80 Portland over the tracks of the o.
r. & N. company. From Portland to
san Francisco the route will be via
the Southern Pacific.
Monday Sept. rs, the institute will
convene in San Francisco and will be
in session probably five days. From
there the party will go to Los Angeles
and thence to Yuma. Tucson and Bis
bee, the latter being Arzona's great
copper camp. Leaving the railway at
Flagstaff, the party will take 65-mile
stage journey to view the Grand Can
yon Of the Colorado. Then resuming
the rail journey, the party will proceed
eastward, breaking up as it goes.
At 1915 a. m. the party under the es-
cert of John Gillie, Mayor Madden, T.
X. Williamson, superintendent of the
refinery; ]. S. Johnston, superintendent
of the silver mill: George Waddell Of
the office of the chief engineer of the
A. c. NJ. CO., and Captain Kelly super
intendent of the smelters, left in spe-
cial train of two coaches on the high
line for a tour of the works. The first
stop was at the lower works, where the
smelters and concentrators We're Wis
tied. From there the tramway took
the party to the converters at Carroll
There the train was in waiting on the
low line and took the party to the re-