The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-07-30
SMOKE OF SHELTER
CROPS NOT INJURED
NEAR NEW UNITED VERDE
PLANT. ARIZONA.

While the farmers of California are
redoubling their efforts to drive the
smelters out of that state because of
the work or smelling sulphur fumes,
the Anaconda company at Anaconda
and former Senator Clark, near Je
rome, are going to work on large
scale to demonstrate that farms and
orchards can be maintained alongside
of big smelters, says j. G. Templeton
in the Copper outlook.
Recently told the story of the new
town of Opportunity which the Ana
conda company is creating as an annex
to the city of Anaconda out of terri
tory which the big mining company
was forced to buy from Deer Lodge
valley farmers because of their dam
age claims. Senator Clark is going
ahead upon a large scale, and in
scarcely less notable way, to demon
strate to the world the same results,
From the way Clark and the Ana
conda people are backing their theo-
ries with their money we may look
in few years for a reversal of public
sentiment relative to the effect of sui
phur upon surrounding vegetable
growth.
Gazing Caused TreabIe.
1t will be remembered that at Sem
ator Clark's famous United Verde mine
at Jerome, the surface plant. including
the smelter, was located on top of the
mines the precpitous walls of the
canyon rendering such Il location OBJ
ligatory when the mine was opened
The old smelter was built on the hang
ing wall side of the mine, and too
close to the ore body. AS result
there was considerable trouble from
caving ground. In one of the caves
the office building was carried down
and a number of employees were killed,
United Verde has suffered consider
ably from caves and fires so that
shafts sunk in ore had to be aband-
oned and new shafts put down IN
country rock. The gradual cavlng OF
the smelter at the mine caused Senator
Clark to decide to build a 3oOO-ton
smelter at the new town of Clarkdale,
six miles from the mine. The new
plant is equipped with four blast fur-
naces and four stands of conVerters
1t is one of the most modern of smelt-
ers, as Senator Clark always insists
upon having the best. The same state
ment is true of his zinc concentrator
on Timbered Butte, which has just
been put in commission. 1t is expected
that the smeter at Clarkdale will be
blown in in September.
Gold and Silver Values.
United Verde ores are rich in sui
phur and the construction of the new
smelter and the disposition Of tne large
area around the smelter had to be
taken into consideration from this
standpoint. incidentally it may be
mentioned that United Verde ores
carry high values in gold and silver
making it necessary to have screen
tops in the smelter smokestacks which
catch the flue dust and thus save these
precious metal by-products.
Clark intends to make the town or
Clarkdale a monument to his memory
although he has several good ones
already, among them being the new
zinc mill at Butte, the Columbia gar
dens and Butte trolley system. IN
1912 the Atchison. Topeka Il Santa Fe
railroad built new standard gauge
line to Clarkdale. which connects with
its main line at Cedar Glade The
town of Clarkdale is about 2oOO feet
lower than the United Verde mine.
The Model Town.
Clarkdale already has 125 houses,
and spacious dooryards for the chill
dren to play in, and a $4,000 school
house. Mr.. Clarke has been greatly
Interested in the mapping out anc
building Of this town, as he desires
the comfortable housing of his en-
ployes Sanitation and modern con-
yeniences will be incorporated in this
new town in the Arizona desert. Clark
paws he best wages, and wants MS
employees to live well. The houses are
we'll spaced. being GO feet apart. "A
brick kiln is turning out 10000 brick
day for building purposes. There
will be no headlight district in the
town and only minimum liquor cob
cessions will be granted. The town
will be policed by Clark's own men
and there will be no politics in the
town government. As Clark owns
thousands of acres surrounding the
town, agitators. tramps and objection
able characters Of every kind can be
escorted within "a hours far beyond