The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-12-24
THE ANACONDA CO.
PLANS IMPROVEMENTS
ENLARGE GREAT FALLS REIN
ERY-lNcREAsE MINER
AL RECOVERY.
Butte Miner

John ID. Ryan, president OF the
Amalgamated Copper company and.
Mr.. Thayer, after a weeks conference
with C. b. Kelley. vice president q
the Anaconda company, left last night
for the western part Of the state on an
inspection trip to the lumber plants,
and to see the Thompson Falls deVei-
opment of the Montana Power COM
pany. Before leaving Mr. Thayer
gave out the following statement
/ 1--WE have been in conference with
the officials of the company in the
state, and the heads of departments
land have decided upon the plans hat
will be recommended to the direct rs
Ito be carried out in introducing the
methods that have been worked out,
mostly by our own men, in the metal
liturgy of the reduction plants IRE
reconstruction work under way at the
Great Falls plant at the time Ut the
interruption Of operations on account
lof the war will be carried to compile
ton, and in addition an electrolNtlc
refinery with a capacity of 10,9O0,000
pounds monthly. or double that r. the
present refinery at Great Falls, TO-
gether with a complete new furnace
refinery, will be installed.
At Anaconda.
"The concentrating of all the ere
produced by the company's mines will
be done at Anaconda, and cancen
itrates sufficient for the operations al
Great Falls will be shipped there FOR
smelling. At Anaconda the changes
decided upon have been recommended
after several years Of experimental
and research work, and it has beer
demonstrated to the satisfaction = The
company officials that by making thf
proposed changes it will be enabled
to mine at profit ore of a lower grade
than is possible under present meth
DDS, thereby greatly increasing tie
available tonnage and extending TIN
life of the mines. 1t is believed by al
of us that the work of reconstruction
can be done to advantage during thu
curtailment of operations. and we ar
glad to be able to furnish employment
at Anaconda and Great Falls to SOM
of the men who have been thrown gu
of employment on account of the cur
tailment of those places. We regre
that we see no prospect of increasin!
the number of men employed in tn
! company's mines in Butte, as TIL
metal market conditions, although
somewhat better than they have beer
during recent months, are still no
! such as will warrant an output of or
f in excess of what is being made a
+ present 1t is our expectation tina
when the mines come back to norma
! operations the improvements at tn
/ metallurgicaI plants will be sufficient
: normal production, but during tn
{ next few months reconstruction at tn
plants would prevent the treatmen
/ of any amount of ore in excess Of wha
J
'In this program of reconstruction
at the reduction works, the best w
can hope to do in the matter of EN-
ployment of labor is to take care o
r some of the employees at Anaconda
: and Great Falls who were thrown OH
: of work at the time of curtalment o
product. There will be no possible
chance for the employment of an,
) outside labor. and we hope that mel
/ seeking work will not come on &C
j count of the announcement of thes
proposed changes, as the company
| own employees viii be employed II
! every case, and no new man can flint
/ employment.
5 Aids the Mines.
7 while 1t is our BELIEF that unde
$ present operating conditions the re
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