Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28
More Men Are Daily Being Put
to Work.
PEOPLE WHO LEFT TOWN
Some Months Ago Are Returning.
There is No Boom But a Gradual
Increase In Trade.

AS reiterated in the Inter Mountain
time and again the city of Anaconda,
which has experienced several months
of quietness, is gradually improving. and
promises to be as lively as of yore at no
distan. date. There was a time since
the first Of the year when families We're
leaving Anaconda on every train. Single
men were departing for every part of the
compass, unable to procure work and too
fearful of the future to remain. A great
many went away who wanted to remain,
but their circumstances would not permit
them, for their daily bread depended upon
securing work, which could not be had at
all.
When the exodus was on in full force,
this paper on more than one occasion
came out and told the people they were
making a mistake, and the p~rophesy is
now coming true. To look at the streets
Of Anaconda as they are seen today does
not indicate absolute prosperity, because
business IS far from rushing, but men are
being put at work in the several depart
ments of the company, which is presum-
ably the Amalgamated Copper company.
A great deal Of repairing has been done
of late in the smelters. At the lower
works mill new jigs, tables. stamps. etc,
have been put in and furnaces at the
smelter. The foundry plant is said to be
working more men now than for a long
time, if not in the history Of the plant.
The brick yards in the west end Of town
have resumed. and the manufacture of
fire and red brick will be pushed with a
large force.
]. B. Williams. who formerly conducted
~ 10 :fo,rto o,,-A a, E>r1, e&pZ1- 1o.
charge Of the brick yard boarding house,
and is caring for the men hat are being
at work.
1t is a SAFE estimate to place the number
of men who have gone to work in all of
the departments of the company during
the past 10 days at 500. The effects Of the
increased forces which VIII be doubled
before the end of the year must come
gradually. There will be no boom in Ana
conda, neither is one wanted, but the time
is not far distant when there will be more
men employed in the works than there
ever has been before. Anaconda has been
quilt out Of proportion. There are too
many buildings according to the business,
and to this is attributed the departure of
SO many mechanics until such time as
there will be actual need of the erection
of more business blocks, which will come .
to pass some day. Were the owners of
shell houses and dilapidated cabins dis
posed to erase such buildings from the
map and build in Their places good SUBJ
stantial houses. there would be a demand
for them, and all Of the mechanics who
have gone away could come back at
once.
AS the Inter Mountain advised the peo-
Pile not to rush away on account of a little
depression the same advice IS given as to
rushing back. Good times will return as
gradually as the dull times came. 1t is
claimed ore from the Parrot mine at
Butte will coming to the
smelters here in a few days. The report
is claimed to be well founded. All these
things will tend to make the people Of
Anaconda happy. which is due them after
the patience of several months of anxious
waiting for better times.