Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-31
HAS HIGHEST
STACK IN WORLD
City Of Great Falls, Montana,
Constructing One Over 500
Feet to Top.
BUTTE TO BE 0UTCLASSED.
New Structure Will Contain Ten
Thousand Tons of Concrete
In Foundation.

The city of Butte, Montana, which
| has heretofore held that distinction, in
Il few months will no longer be able to
boast of having the highest smoke
stack in the world. The new stack that
| is being constructed at Great Falls,
| Montana, for the Boston q Montana.
| smeter, which reduces the ores for the
company's mines in Butte. will exceed
| 500 feet in height. The stack Of the
! Butte Reduction works is 35i feet high
and slender in comparison with the
| great chimney now being built at
Great Falls, which will have an inside
| diameter of 80 feet Referring to the
new stack. the Great Falls Leader
says;
BUILT OF BRICK.
Ten thousand tons OF concrete Is a
| great deal; in fact, it is such a deal
| that one can scarcely bring oneself 10
a RELAXATION of what the figures mean
in reality Yet that is the amount
which is to be poured into the big hole
on the top of Indian Point, Just across
the river from the city, for the making
of a foundation for the greatest smoke
stack in the entire world. In order
TO bear the FOG feet of brick stack with
an inside diameter of 90 feet at the
top, IL Is necessary that the greatest
foundation in the world also shall be
built, and that IL what is being done.
Loaded upon freight cars, the train
would number 1886 cars, and be over
two miles in length.
Under charge of Chief Engineer Scot
ten of the Boston Il Montana company
in this city. the work of making the
foundation, has been started, and the
great concrete mixer Is pouring $50
tens of concrete daily into the great
hole which marks the foundation OF
the big stack
WILL BE DELAYED.
The Boston & Montana company
builds the foundation, the stack COM
pany taking 1t from them at the top
of the foundation, and 1t is expected
that the latter win be reached Sept 20.
at which time 1t will be ready for the
laying of the brick. Under the con-
tract the building company agreed to
have the stack ready for turning back
to the smelter company Nov. l Of this
wear, but various unforeseen troubles
having interviewed since that time 1t
is uncertain that the work win be
completed in the time originally speci-
fed.
Although the foundation lies In sight
of the city, and within a few minutes
of the street car line. but few people
save seen the starter for the big stack,
or realize .jts immensely. The founda-
ton is of concrete mixed with Stag,
and Is mixed in a great mixer and
poured directly into the hole; this hole
is circular In form. with core OF the
original earth, leaving a circular space
22h feet deep, "a feet In width at the
base, and eight feet on the top The
concrete is poured into this space and
makes a solid mass In the untouched
earth the eight-foot top being the foun-
dalton.
HAD TO BUILD A RAILROAD.
Tho space to be filled VIII take con-
siderable over 1900 cubic feet. weighing
400 pounds per cubic yard, so that
about 20.o00.000 pounds, or 10000 tons,
of concrete will be used. AT the present
time over 100 cubic yards per day is
being poured into place, and the work
is being rushed as much as possible.
one of the necessities for the building
OF the big stack on Indian Point was
the building OF n railroad on the top OF
the hill for the bringing up Of supplies,
and several hundred men were ems
poyed in the building OF the stack line.
which was not completed until Il few
weeks since. With It's building trains
OF supplies can he run directly to the
stack for use, and the building is great
ly expedited thereby. The new road
Is about four miles in length with its
branches.
The work on the big foundation Is
very interesting, aud should be visited
by those who desire To witness some
thing far out OF the ordinary I'm the
industrial building line.
HIGHEST IN THE WORLD
Tho stack win be laid directly upon
the concerto foundation made, and VIII
be SOC feet high, with an inside diame-
ter AT the top OF 80 feet, II will be far
and away the largest stack In the
world, and viii be the highest structure
of similar kind in the world except the
Eiffel tower IN Paris and the Washing
ton monument IN the nations capital,
being about ~ feet lower Than the lat
ter. IN the scaffoldlnR necessary 10
building alone there will be 100000 feet
OF lumber. When completed II viii be
the eighth wonder OF the world. and Is
already attracting thA attention OF
scientific men the world over