The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-01-01
ANACONDA COMPANY PLANS TO HAVE ITS
SHELTER EMPLOYEES OWN SMALL FARMS
NEAR THE WAsHoE SHELTER TO BE PLAT
TED INTO 1o-AcRE TRAcTs-WILL DEVELOP BETTER
HEALTH AND BETTER

ming railway line direct through the
entire unit that will give service from
the section to the Washoe smelter.
Whether this will be trolley line OPP
Grated by electricity, or whether the
tracks Of the old Montana Central will
be utilized for a motor car system, viii
be decided later.
THE entire unit Will be supplied
with lighting system SO that every
home will be able to have electric
lights and also power If it SO desires
for use in many ways to which such
power can be put.
Another feature of the proposed
plan that is in many ways the most
important part of it is that the COM
pany plans to loan at low rate Of in
terest to its employees who purchase
these tracts the money needed to erect
their homes and other buildings and
to stock the little farms.
I'm fact it Is believed that the man
who now pays rent for house and lot
will be able through the saving in rent
and the extra money he can make by
cultivating his land to pay for the en-
tire property within few years time
and have it clear One of the reasons
why the company has adopted this
plan is the belief that through 1t the
employees will become more contentad
and more substantial citizens. There
will be more home owners, more men
of family who have a personal inter-
est in the entire community and it,
success.
A Good Policy.
"In talking of the plan, one OF the
officials of the Anaconda Copper Min
ing company said: The company has
mot been entirely unselfish in adopting
and advancing this project. In d.
rect manner the company will moi
make any money out Of 1t. In Other
words it is not a profitable scheme
We will expend great deal more
money than we will get back. But in
directly we will find it Of great adj
vantage, l believe. We want to place
within the reach of several hundred
employees at the Washoe smelter the
chance for them to get homes where
their families will have all the adj
vantages of homes located ideally. The
influences under which children car
DO raised in such surroundings VII
mean higher class of future citizen
ship. We expect to have clear-head'
| ed, steadier and brainier men workins
for us as the result. We hope to teacl
them higher ideals. We are willing tt
help to solve the problem of the higf
cost Of living and instill habits O.
thrift and industry. We want grea
community of men and women. living
we'll, eating good food and plenty o
1t, educating their minds and building
up their bodies. We believe it a goot
policy. We believe that we will ge
ibetter results from our mining ant
smelling projects with such men ~
employees
"There is a possibility that If thu
plan proves as successful as anticipat.
ed, the project will be greatly extend
ed and that not only the company en-
ployes at the Washoe smelter, but the
men who live In Butte and work II
the mines of the larger city will OF
given a similar opportunity to ge
themselves little farm home. A
present the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific
trains operated now by electricity car
make the run from the tract Of lanf
to be developed right to the Butte sta
ton in Is minutes.
"There are other tracts Of land near
err Butte that will be just as available
as the one on which the start is to b.
made. 1t is the hope Of the men who
have devised the plan that eventually
the same opportunity for improve
ment can be extended to the Butte
residents.
Both Anaconda and Butte will be
within easy reach in transportation
way. With the splendid roadways II
Is expected each family will be able tc
get to these cities in its own convey
|ance--either by carriage or by auto
There will be connections at the Wa
shoe smelter with the electric line into
Anaconda, and connection with Butte
by the steam and electric lines"