The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-12
OLD LANDMARK GOING
The Ten Stacks of the Anaconda
to Be Taken Down.
CHANGE OF BOILER PLANT
Gunboat Marine Boilers to Be Put In
Self-Sustainine Stack Going Up.
Other improvements Be-
ing Made.


rection the eye of the newcomer is at
once caught by long line of smoke
stacks on the brow of the hill east of
the main portion of the city. The
stacks are 10 in number and standing
just above the seven stacks of the
Neversweat, clearly outlined against
the sky, they have been both imposing
and conspicuous.
Inquiry at once elicits the fact that
they belong to the boiler plant of the
great Anaconda mine, the central mine
of the group, composed of the st. Law
renee, Anaconda and Neversweat, the
three extending from east to west in
the order named.
CHANGING up at the hill now we OBJ
serve a break in this row of stacks.
Two of them are gone. An investiga-
ton brings out the fact that changes
are being made of a most important
character. Two of the stacks have
been removed and the others are soon
to follow. Not only are the stacks to
be taken down, but the entire boiler
plant for which they stanu is to be
torn out and replaced by new one.
nine sets of boilers and single one, each
set and the single being provided with
separate stack. They are of varying
designs and different capacities. One
set of "a horse power to each boiler was
made by the Union Iron Works of San
Francisco, Cal. Four sets of the same
capacity are of the Fraser & Chal-
mer's make. Another four are of the
futile & Co. pattern and were made at
the Anaconda works in this city. Two
of these are of 81 horse power to each
boiler and the other two are of 60. The
single boiler is Scotch marine, of the
futile pattern, but made at Ana
conda. 1t is of 125 horse power. This
makes total of about / 100 horse power
in the boiler plant.
The new plant will consist of six
gunboat marine boilers, said to be of
the same type as those of the gunboat
Bennington. They are of 200 horse
power each, with a total pressure of
10 pounds. The difference in effective
power is estimated to be away beyond
what the stated horse power would in
dictate. 1t is thought that the actual
gain in power will be not less than so
per cent. The new boilers are sup
posed to be the very best of their kind.
But this is not all. The old system
of smokestacks is now to be succeeded
by a single self-supporting steel stack,
similar 10 tndt at tne bTeen MOUNTAIN,
but larger. The base for the stack is
already built, and nearly one-half of
the stack itself is in place. The base
is an octagon of "a feet, tapering to Is
at the top, where the stack begins. The
stack itself will be about 125 feet MAX
ing a total height of $50 feet. 1t is 8
feet inches in diameter and weighs
$4,000 pounds. All of the boilers will
connect with this stack by means of
flue extending the whole length of the
plant.
Over the boilers is to be erected a new
steel building 11Ox52 feet. At this the
rope house has recently been enlarged
to such an extent that so per cent more
cable can be sewed than heretofore.
The cables used are seven inches wide
and half an inch thick. The total
length of cable is said to be about
5000 feet.
This mine is provided with hoisting
engine of $500 horse power, being sur
passed only by those at the Mountain
Consolidated and the Neversweat. 1t
is double 30x72 Poppett valve, and
was made by the Union Iron Works at
San Francisco. There is no building
over the shaft. The engine is well
housed in a brick and steel structure,
but over the shaft stands one OF those
great steel gallows frames with which
the company is rapidly fitting many of
its mines.
Underground in this mine are two
railroads provided with air locomotives.
One is upon what is called the 40-foot
level, although it is actually about 60
feet which brings it nearly on
level with the surface at the Never
sweat. 1t is used in hauling ore from
the hoisting skips to the railroad bins
at the Neversweat, where the cars are
loaded from both mines. On the LOO
iS, Ci n
connective in use. This one is employed
in hauling the ore from the slopes to
the skips which hoist it to the 40-foot
level mentioned above, whence it Is
taken to the ore bins as described.
1t is interesting to observe the saw
ing of timbers at this mine. Two sets
of saws are arranged about 10 feet
apart. Each set consists of four cir
cular saws, two of which run perpen-
dicularly and two horizontally. AS a
result of this arrangement no reversing
of the timbers is necessary. They are
laid upon rollers and simply slid back
and forth from one set of saws to the
other, each set finishing one end of the
timber. the only other movement nee
essary being a simple turn or roll OF the
timber. These saws were made at the
Anaconda works. at Anaconda.
The machine shop at the mine is upon
a very considerable scale. 1t does the
machine work for all three mines con-
shutting the Anaconda group. 1t may
not be out of place to mention the fact
that the main office building on the hill
is being thoroughly overhauled and
completely rearranged.
1t really looks as if the company in
tended to continue in business for some
time to come.
Rare and Precious Metals.