Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-14
MISSION.

George =. Walker, editor of the Boston
Financial News, who was recently IN
Butte, wrote the following to his paper:
Butte, Mont.-nhe long ook forward
district BY the Amalgamated Copper
will never take place. All OF
the immense development work going on
in the various properties in winch tne
Amalgamated is known to be interested
indicates that each company Will con
tinue to maintain its identity. When
one comes to think about it there was
never anything said of an authoritative
character which should have led n one
to believe that q real consolidation was
at any time contemplated Dy the Alilal-
gamated's organizers. 49,
From the best information that can pc
obtained here it appears that me An ~
gamated ompany was orgahlzsa ~ wh;;nh
would have crippled the most vaIuaple
mining district on earth. The time was aL
land when the various mining lnlerests
here threatened to become involved In such
limitless litigation that that IN Wnlcn MI.
Heinze now figures would have paled into
insignificance beside 1t. But the Amal,
| became the largest individual holder OF the
| stocks Of the several leading companies.
BY this action the interests OF an were
| made Identical, and the various companies
| are las a result, working together IN peace
and harmony. The several management
are for the first time in the history OF this
1 Cdl1lU, dhl " AAOO AA~AAo ~
| nation as to underground discoveries,
| smelling developments. and in numberiess
ways helping one another to economic ex-
| penses and earn profits. In other words,
harmony reigns where chaos seemed In
evitable.
A map Of the Butte mining district is a
in every direction, overlap one another and
make numberless fractions. As a result
the big properties of the district, each OF
which owns a great many individual claims
and fractions. are literally dOVetailed to-
gether.
The United States mining laws, which
obtain in this state, give the owner of the
apex Of a vein the privilege of following
it's incline through side lines and on under
the properties of others indefinitely. End
lines alone confine him.. An eminent expert
brought here to investigate the situation
testified in court that there was an aver
age of one vein every u feet across the
some Of them are 200 feet wide, notably
in the Boston & Montana, there must nat
urally be places where they are extremely
close together. They are also connected
facts. AS If to make the situation still
more complex, copper IS seldom found
above a depth Of several hundred feet. The
adequate to control such a remarkable nat
ural condition, and the union of interests
brought about by the Amalgamated com.
pany is undoubtedly saving millions of dol
lars annually, which would otherwise have
been ~squandered in litigation.
1t seems to be the disposition of the
Ama1gamated management to act as an ad.
visory board, or, perhaps, managing direc,
tor In all OF the companies. Wherever it sees
an opportunity for economy or other i'm.
prOvement to be secured by consolidation
of one or more departments of two or more
companies, such consolidation follows. Thu
new smelter at Anaconda, to be built and
operated comparatively by several of the
A~malgamated companies, is IN Instance.
TIT changes in the heads of departments
during the past two years nave resulted
/ In hrfn o3n rno rf n1ynnuy1o1cpo a.
into control of the mines and smelters II
which the A~malgamated is interested; anG