Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-21
GREAT SHELTERS
CROWDS MARVEL AT THE MAS
SIVE MACHINERY.
LAST WILL OF MARCUS DAILY.
Makes His Wife Sole Executor-A
Short and Business-Like
Document.

The weather overhead yesterday could
not have been better had it been made
to order 1t was indeed delightful
DAY. The atmosphere was as bamy as
spring time, and in fact the climatic
conditions were such that one could al
most be led to believe that the season
OF the year so universally Welcomed
above all others had come in earnest,
But the almanac told that it was only
the 10th of January. Nevertheless, the
snow on the ground fell an easy prey to
the warm rays of the sun, and it seemed
to disappear with marked rapidity.
so pleasant was it out of doors that
people who had kept close to home dur
ing the late cold spell took advantage of
tine opportunity to get out, and a great
many found the new smeters. now
under construction a short distance to
the southeast of the city, an objective
point.
70 visit the new works now is a sort OF
"a revelation and one can form a pretty
good idea of the nature of the Stupen-
dous enterprise being constructed. A
great deal has been written and said
about the great work; people have been
told that this plant is to be the largest
and most up-to date of any in the world,
but it is difficult to understand the enor-
unity of the undertaking until one visits
the ground and sees the genius of
American enterprise exemplified, as is
being done on the Washoe heights.
Two of the larger buildings are under
cover. The rooster. a massive structure
$50 feet long and So feet wide. has has
the roof on for several weeks and the
machinery is being rapidly installed.
This building will contain the Bruckner
roasting furnaces. which have only re-
Gently well nigh revoutionized the sci
ence OF reducing the class of ores pro-
duced by the great Anaconda mine.
The gigantic converter building is the
other which, judging from it's exterior
appearance. would lead visitor to be-
lieve was nearing completion. But the
interior presents d busy scene where IL
large force of men is engaged in putting
together the mechanical parts.
The foundations of the blast furnace
building are almost completed and it is
only matter of short time until the
tlume work will rise above them.
The power house which will have l-
mansions of 515 feet long by "a feet VIDE.
is fast assuming shape. about half of
the steel frame work is in place and
now the great engines which will gem
crate the force which will drive the
ponderous machinery in all the work
is being set in place.
Away upon the HILL above the site
of all the other buildings, the steel
frame of the immense concentrator be-
gins to loom up. The stone foundat TONS
now finished, at a distance have the APP
pearance of being huge stone steps.
Only small part of the structural steel
is in place. This building will GOV ar
more ground space than any of the
Others. 1t will spread over the side OF
the hill and occupy d space GAG by 43S
feet.
The foundations of other buildings,
large in size. are being laid, and every
day a great many carloads of stone are
hauled in from the Gregson quarries
by the B., A. & p. railway.
Men seem to be at work eVeryWhere
doing something toward the construc-
ton of the great plant. Material is piled
up in every conceivable place, and there
seems to be no end of machinery. II
has been unloaded from the cars at con-
Nenient spots. ready for installation the
moment it is needed.
Several tranlOads of material and ma
chinery are still in the b., A. & p. rail-
road yards and it will be hauled out as
fast as a place can be made for it near
the new buildings.
The Anaconda people who have not
visited the new works certainly ought
TO take the first opportunity to do So.
The trip is certainly interesting. and be-
sides it will post them on what is going
ON at their very doors.