The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-22
TlNCE OF
M0NTANA'S LIFE
HERE is AN EASTERN STORY
LAUDING DEVELOPMENT OF
THE TREASURE STATE.
Butte Will Produce $40, 100000 In
Metals Next Year; State Is Excited
to Grow 60, 100000 Bushels OF
Wheat; New Methods of Extract
ing Ore Values.

tibShNS y
ing Orc Values.
Montana is humming with indus
try and thrilling with life, says the
Boston News Bureau, a newspaper
thai is accepted as an authority by
the financiers of the east. Butte
hopes to yield next year something
like $40, 0O0, 600 in gold, copper, Sill
yer and zinc. Miners and farmers
and ranchers are all prosperous. Min
ers working machines get a $3.50
/ wage for an eight-hour day. Farm
ers have been paying $500 a day n
all the banks of the state are over
flowing with money.
The railways have had all they
could do to handle the business. Ten
years ago Montana was not included
in the wheat growing states, but this
year it grew $4,000, 900 bushels and
next year they expect a crop OF 3d.
dOU, 900 bushels. One rancher har-
vested AZ bushels of wheat to the
acre from a farm at an elevation OF
5000 feet.
When the St. Paul pushed up the
Missouri valley and across the Con
t%inental Divide. grave fears were en-
%tertained that it would embarass it.
self and other railroads financially.
1t cut heavily into Northern Pacific
and Great Northern business, but in
a little while it developed enormous
new business. The mineral, grain
and livestock development in thts
new territory has been SO great that
all the railroads have their hands
full and now the 800" is getting
ready to push up the Missouri to
Great Falls and on to the northwest
to some point in southwestern Alber-
ia. This will shorten the 500" be-
tween Minneapolis and Spokane by
about 100 miles. This $500" route
running through Crows Nest Pas to
Spokane and thence to the coast. will
be the shortest route between Chica-
go and the Pacific.
Wonderful Agricultural Possibilities.
When one realizes that all the New
England states could be carved out
]. of Montana and hat it's agricultural
possibilities are five times greater
than those of New York state and
5 that it's mineral wealth far surpasses
, that of Pennsylvania, some idea can
be formed of M%ontana's future. When
: these facts are taken into account
it car be easily understood why the
great railroads of the west are pay
ing so much attention to Montana.
/ The mineral development of the
: whole state is moving forward rapid
ly. The Anaconda ore reserves are
ten times greater than they were ten
years ago. The properties that
e Heinze sold to his rivals II years ago
r are today worth ten times more thar
they We're then.
The discovery of the minerals sep
# ~aration process and the electro-chem-
ical process for recovering zinc from
O sulphide ores will more than double
t the life of the Butte mines and the
S profits which will come to their own
v erS.
Pioneering in Electrolites.
Just as the discovery of the pro
II cess to make electrolytic copper re.
IS volutionized the copper business OF
the world, so will electro-chemica.
metallurgy revolutionize the speltel
trade of the world. 1t is a curiou:
:, coincidence that it was the Anaconda
- which led the way nearly 40 year:
g ago in the development of the process
8 of making e~lectrolytic copper, ant
today it is leading the way in the de
= velopment of the process to recove:
= zinc by electro-chemical treatment.
The Canadian Pacific smelte
g, q plant at Trail is the pioneer in tn
- new process, but Anaconda is alread.
-, ~ making double the quantity Of zinc
Anaconda will produce 100000 90
pounds in 1917. Trail will hardl,
exceed $4,000, 600 pounds.
The electro-chemical process re
- Gently put into operation consists o
crushing and roasting the ore an
dissolving the zinc %sulphide in an aci'
- solution, containing manganese and
~ bi-sulphate of soda. The lead, cop
- per-, and iron sulphides will not dis
=. solve in this solution, but the Yin
- = and manganese sulphide will an
~ when drawn off from 80 per ent t
y 95 per cent of the zinc can be col
- lected by el%ectrolysis If proper car
be taken the zinc sc deposited is a
:, most perfectly free from impuritie
u and is worth in normal times 20 pei
cent more than ordinary spelter.
= The actual cost of making this Yin
= from a 40 per cent zinc concentrat
should never exceed two cents
pound, and where power is $40 G
$12 per horse power, it should nc
\ exceed one and one-half cents
J pound.
Considering the prices the Anaco1