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

interests alone wefe compelled TO meet
the entire expense.
II have no well-formulated plan in
mind concerning the manner I'm which
his money can or should be raised. but
among others the following Is an out
lin 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 I'm 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. TO be secured by a tax upon
the property values as assessed within
the city and county limits during this
period.
Another source toward which | 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 l have faith to
believe that when the question Is seri-
ously considered and the matter prop
erly presented to the smelling compa-
MES operating I'm our vicinity. they VIII
voluntarily guarantee a royalty upon
the onnage Of ore worked of, say. from
five to ten cents per ton. his royalty TO
be reduced after a certain proportion
of the cost shall have been paid I'm by
them. This may appear as an embargo
upon the smelling industry. but IL Will
certainly cost less for those engaged
in the reduction of ore to volunteer this
royalty than IL will cost TO move a
plant, and IL will cost less than the
railroad freights required OF these who
contemplate shipping ore to other local
titles for treatment. and i shall expect
these operators to perceive that a Dor
ton of the money hus expended will
be returned to them In the better health
and greater satisfaction of the men In
their employ. which will follow the inn
proved conditions under which they will
be required To labor.
For the remaining third Of the funds
required ! think We may depend upor
subscriptions from our business mer
and residents here to an incorporate
stock company that should take tn
matter I'm hand. and l think hat will
two-thirds OF the required funds Sc
cured in the manne hereinbefore indi
Gated subscriptions TO this compan
may be offered as a paying investment
/ do not anticipate that the profits from
fiue dust Will be very great, and i Zee
that the various companies should hav'
the privilege OF erecting any characte
of chamber or dust arrester they ma.
desire, but after the fumes ave en-
tered the main fiue all dust and pro
ducts settling therein will become tn
property of such corporation and
shall expect that a term of years vii
show something of a revenue from thi
source.
This appears to me as the most posi-
tive and efficient method of dealin
with our sulphur fumes. and the ques
ton here recurs whether or not hue
upon the plan / have outlined woul
secure US entire Immunity therefron
a question which l hin IL will be i'm
possible to answer with absolute cer
tainty until such iues are actually con
structed. 1t will be remembered. how
ever. by our older residents that ther
were many furnaces continually a
work i'm copper smelling before y In
convenience whatever was experience
from the fumes discharged. and tha
for some years after they became nj
ticeable an occasional visitation wa
regarded as a benefcence rather tina
a menace TO public health. and thOs
physicians who nave practiced lOngei
in Butte will probably agree in regar
ing a periodical sulphur bath. when al
ministered in the milder form, as