The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-10
THE HIGH ORE MINE
One of the Best Equipped in the
Butte District.
IMMENSE BOILER PLANT
An Independent Pump Hoist-Huge
Smokestack and It's Connecting
Flue-Device for Getting
Rid OF Steam.

Anaconda properties constituting a part
of the Mountain Consolidated or Syndi-
cate group. This group and the Ana
form of horseshoe with the open heel
to the west and the rounded toe to the
east. The Mountain Consolidated.
Green Mountain, Diamond and Bell
form the major part of the northern
arm, the st. Lawrence, Anaconda and
Neversweat the southern arm, while the
High Ore forms the curve at the toe
or the shoe, connecting the two arms.
The High Ore works lie northeast of
the main Anaconda office, perhaps an
eighth of mile distant, but cancelled
from view by the intervening hill. The
mine is under the immediate superin-
tendency of William Skyrme, an old
Comstocker, and although it is not at
present turning out SO much ore as
some of the others, it is distinctively of
e the great mines of the district.
No mine in the copper belt has finer
general equipment, and taken as
whole 1t may not be going too far to
say that the High Ore plant stands at
the head. Its hosting engine is not
equal to those of the Neversweat and
Mountain Consolidated. but is identical
and ST. Lawrence, and is ample for all
requirements. 1t is a double Poppett
valve engine with cylinders 30x72 inches
and of about $500 horse power.
1t is provided with two splendid In
gersoll and Sergeant air compressors,
the second one having just been put in
operation. The high pressure steam
cylinder of the larger one is 80 inches
= by so, and the low pressure is Sc by 60.
the air cylinders being each 30A by so.
The smaller one has 26 by 60 high
pressure cylinder and a low pressure
one Of 40 by so. These compressors are
splendidly housed in brick building
about 40 feet in length
The immense air power at these works
is rendered necessary by the circun1-
stance that in addition to the drills
there are six large pumps in operation
which are worked by air There are
two pumps on the 500 level. two on the
100 and two on the 1000, with double
line of pipe column from the top to the
bottom. Sometimes all of these pumps,
are in operation at once, and some
times only a part of them, depending
on the quantity Of water to be handled
More water is pumped through this
shaft than any other in the copper belt:
not because the High Ore mine is the
wettest, but because the pumping is
done here for the entire Syndicate
group.
In this connection it may not be I'M
interesting to mention the fact that the
mine is equipped with an independent
pump hoist The shaft is very wide
and Mr., Skryme has put in third cage
run by a small separate engine for the
sole purpose of caring for the pumps.
Prior to this when the pump columns
became leaky, they could only be re-
paired by suspending, for the time, the
hosting of ore upon the side where re-
pairs were in progress. This made
it necessary to stop hosting upon the
other side also, because the engine be-
ing counterbalance, one side could not
be worked to advantage without the
other. But now the pumps can be kept
In order without the SLIGHTEST Interior
ence with the other work. which also
results in great saving through the
preservation of the pumps themselves
as formerly damaging leaks We're ne
elected rather than to stop hosting ore.
This is the only independent pump hoist
in the Butte district.
In the matter of boiler power the
High Ore is easily at the head of all
the mines of Butte, or more properly
speaking, it will be as soon as the new
boilers are fired up. The old plant con-
sists of seven sets-fourteen boilers in
all OF these u are of S0-horse power
each, and two of go, making a total of
1,0S0 horse power These have been
supplemented by SIX new Scotch marine
boilers of 140-horse power each, making
$40 for the six, and grand aggregate
Of 1,920-horse power for the plant, as
against ESQ at the Neversweat, which
Is next in power 81
These new boilers have been set up.
connected with the steam pipes and will
soon be making steam. They together
with the old boilers, will be connected
with the new steel stack recently erect
ed. This stack is the same as the one
at the Anaconda, being of total height
of $50 feet including the masonry, the
stack proper being 1875 feet high eight
feet nine inches in diameter and weigh
ing $4,000 pounds
+ The stack is built hundred or more
feet from the boilers, the connection be-
ing made by brick fiue eight feet by
six. This f1ue carries not only the
smoke from the furnaces, but the hot
steam from the shaft. In the winter
the steam pours up in dense volumes
from below, enveloping the mouth Of
the shaft in dense fog. To remedy
this ventilating flue has been run
from point about 80 feet below the
collar of the shaft to connect with the