Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-07
BUILDING A FLuME'
To Carry Off the Tailings of
the Shelter.
WILL BENEFIT N
Many Miles of Water bitches Being
Dug WashOe Smelter Will
Surely be Built.
WILL BENEFIT FARMERS

A contract was let in this city two days
ago for the digging and fluming of a tail
ing fume five miles long more or less
when VIII prove of great benefit to the
ranches east of Anaconda. The 1ume is
for the Anaconda Copper Mining COM
pany and was let to Isaacson & Co. of
Georgetown for the sum of $500 more
or less. The work of digging the ditch
will be through the lowlands of Warm
Springs valley to a point at or near the
Deer Lodge river near Stuart and is be-
ing erected for the purpose of carrying
away the tailings from the Anaconda
Copper Mining company's smelters in
Anaconda. The tailings from this plant
have accumulated SO fast in recent years
that during high water and other sea-
sons of the year they flow out upon
the land and make it as worthless as a
sand desert because wherever the tall
ings lodge On the land it's fertility is
killed forever. The head Of the tlume will
start at a point a short distance below
Carroll. Work will as soon as
the frost is out of the ground.
Contractor Pat Welch. who last fall
commenced digging several thousand feet
u uilCI lOI water pipe III lIle Eastern al
dltlOn, Will begin work again as soon as
the frost is out. He has several blocks
long of ditch to complete down near the
Washoe lumber plant. There is also ak
of several thousand feet of ditch for
water pipe in the west end betWeen the
brewery plant and the race track where
there are several blocks of vacant prop
erty. According to reports this land will
soon be placed upon the market.
There are no new buildings being start
ed in Anaconda and will not be until the
disrest and uncertainty which prevails
has passed away. 1t is all due to eX-
pectancy over the erection of the WashOe
smelter and the most serious reason of
all the few men employed in the old
smelters. Their are today fully 800 vacant
houses in Anaconda. 1t is safe to say on
an average Of two families per day have
left for other parts of the world during
the past six months. The exodus still
continues. To the people who contem-
plate going, and there are many or
them, it is believed they are making a
mistake for there is every indication tina
the Washoe smelter will be built and that
Anaconda will be the great smelter town
in what looks to be a copper trust or
combine in which the Anaconda Copper
Mining Washoe Copper COM
pany or any other company in the COM
bine will lose its individuality. 1t is fur
Their believed by many in Anaconda that
Marcus DAILY will be the president of the
combine which will govern the copper
mines of Montana. This looks reason
able asmuc as Marcus Daily and his
associates are gathering in all the valu-
able property and industries they can
secure at a time when the town is dull
and values are deprecated. Under the
circumstances and from present indica-
tons the owners of property should not
sell too soon unless they are we'll paid.
Their seems to be little encouragement
for some to remain in Anaconda witt
the scarcity of employment offered but a
change is looked for and that in the near
future.