The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-12-21

in the seven miles of flume built tc
give the plant water supply.
This flume delivers 81 600 gallons o.
water a minute into the tanks.
Fifty thousand yards of masonry
were constructed in the work, and
more than 100000 yards of earth were
eXcavated for foundations.
3 The site of the new plant covers
300 acres, of which seven acres are COW
cred by the concentrator building alone.
70 construct the bins at the rever-
Deratory building alone more than T.
UOOOOO feet of lumber were used.
/ The new works viii have a capacity
FOR treating 5000 tons of ore a day.
Nearly nine hundred men have been
employed almost daily in construction
since the first earth was turned June is,
1900.
The building of this plant is the
most stupendous work of the kind ever
completed within such a brief period.
In his Christmastide of 1901 Mon
tana finds itself engaged in public Civ
ing on large scale, says the Stand
ard. Several funds are before
the people of the state in which
they are pouring and will pour liber-
ally, since Montana always is liberal.
Twenty thousand dollars is the
amount asked of the people of the
state to enable Montana to be repre-
scented at the Louisiana Purchase eX-
position at st. Louis. A plan has been
devised under which an honorary COM
mission has been appointed to gather
in the money. The commission has
apportioneu the $4,000 among the
twenty-siX counties of the state, basing
the apportionment on the assessed val
uation Of the counties. Assurances are
pouring in on the commissioners that
each county will do its part. 1t is pro-
posed to ask the legislature at its ses-
sion in 1903 to pay back the subscrip
tons and to appropriate $4,000 more
on behalf of the state, giving $4,000
for the states representation.
In addition to this fund Butte is en-
gagged with the mining congress fund
for the purpose of entertaining the In
ternational mining congress next year.
Still another fund before the people
of Montana is that now being raised
for the purpose of erecting in Butte
a memorial TO the late Marcus DAILY.
Butte led off with accustomed generos-
ity, and the other communities in the
state are coming forward with splendid
subscriptions.
Did it ever strike you that the popu-
lation of Montana is singular in that
it possesses only a small proportion of
said Judge NJ. ]. FitzPat-
rick president of the Anaconda school
board. Il have been reading some fig
uTeS from the census returns and l |
find that Montana ranks high as a
civilized and educated state. In fact, |
it is the sixteenth in the entire list |
Of states and territories.
.EAOntana According T0pSp ffsy:TreaS
has only IS per cent of illiterate among |
the male population of voting age. !
the number of Indians and |
foreigners within the state, that is a
emarkably good record. Massachusetts, |
With all its boosted learning, has |
of ga illiterates in its boun-
laries. New York is nearly as we'll
as Montana, with SO, while
has percentage of II. |
All of the southern states fall out of
Nontana's class entirely, so great IS
he illiteracy in that section of the
Union. AIabamas percentage of illit-
racy is 1871. Arizona s 23.9 Arkansas
0. Georgia's BIG, Kentucky's 1873, Lou
siana's 376, and so on down the line.
The District of Columbia has S.4, New
ersey So, and so on, nearly all the
states having no average
early as good as ours. Here in the
vest. for instance, California has 60
er cent of illiterates, and Nevada 12.S
is the only great mining state
hat goes ahead of US. 1t has Al. The
tates with a better average than ours
re:
''Nebrask 25; Iowa, 81; Kansas and
Washington. "a; Utah, 81; Colorado | s
nd Minnesota, Al; Illinois, Ohio and
oregon, AS; Idaho and North Dakota
10Th
Onsin and Michigan, SIS; Indiana, Sc. /
Taking it altogether, l think we {
ave reason to feel proud of this young
tate. These figures ought TO surprise
0me Of the eastern brethren who are
md of shouting about the ignorance c
f the west"