Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-03
Becomes One Of The Largest
Industries in The State.
COUNTY PLEASED
Montana Coal and Coke Company And
Butte and Yellowstone Company
Join Hands.

News came from Butte Of a deal in
mining properties that means much for
Park county and which is the biggest
thing that has happened around this
section OF the state for many q day, says
the Livingston Post. The Post last week
CONTAINED Items to the effect that the
Montana Coal n COX were
arranging to construct 100 new ovens
II that the Butte and Yellowstone COM
pauny A. 0. Newton, manager, had COM
menced work upon As new coke ovens to
supply the increased deman n for Horr
coke which o exists. Last Saturday
a deal was coansummated in Butte,
whereby the Montana Coal and Coke
company and the Butte and Yellowstone
company are consolidated and the prop
critics placed under one management.
Henry A. Root, vtce-president of the
Montana company n a large owner in
the Horr mines has purchased for the
Montana Coal and Coke company the
properties belonging to A. Q. Newton and
H. l.. Frank and will operate them in
connection With the Horr and Aldridge
plants.
Ten thousand dollars were paid by
Mr.. Root to biaid the bargain n che
purchase price is said to be $l0O, 900.
By this consolidation the Montana Coal
! AMID Coke company becomes the largest
coke manufacturing establishment in
, Montana and one OF the biggest indus
tries in the state. Thousands of acres Of
coal lands are owned by them and their
plant is one of the bert equipped and
best managed that could be imagined
When the improvements begun have
been finished there will be 800 coke ovens
at Horr and mines at Aldridge, Hort
and vicinity Will all be worked to supply
the ovens with coal to be transformed
into coke.
The news OF the consolidation Is most
welcome to the people of Park county
and it Is certain that of all the corpora
tio1s in the United States the people
F! here would rather see the Montana com
pany in full CONTROL of AN the properties
OF the Upper Yellowstone coal Fields,
i From the first the Montana company ha.
shown a most progressive spirit and
since they have secured control of affairs
the camps of Horr and Aldridge have gons
ahead faster and builded up more rapid
ly thar ever before in the history OF the
towls. Several companies have had q
trial at Horn and through bad manage.
ment have failed-but not so with the
Montana company. In the time they have
been operating they have made more Am
provements, and have done more to make
the camp the best in the state h any
outfit ever in control of the properties
They have put in a system Of electric light.
ing, have builded new offices and resi-
dences, have put in a machine shop cap
able of doing any kind of work, erected
reading room and library building for thu
use of employees, installed steam heating
plants, commenced the construction Of al
electric railway from A1dridge to HOrr
and the building of 100 new coke ovens
If that is not a record to be proud of ant
one which shows conclusively that tn,
company is going at things in a way tina
! is bound to make Park county famous a.
a coal county, than all that could be don
by any corporation would be useless.
The electric road from Horr to Aldridg
will be pushed rapidly to completion AM
the rolling stock for the road is alread,
ordered. The new o a will supplant tn
old 1ume method of transportation o
coal, and will be of great benefit to tn