Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1920-09-29


is now lts$assistant cashier. Former
Marshall county residents seem to- be
making good in all walks Of life where
ever one finds them. One evening Mr..
and Mrs. Bystromsgave a fine sixo'c clock
dinner to former: Marshall, county resi-
dents. including Mr. and Mrs. e: NJ.
Thompson, Clarence Berg and the War
rem bunch, also A. ~ Dahlberg. a young
attorney formerly of Minneapolis, who
is the loca representative Of big
eastern Trust Company. He was EN-
ployed as waiter in the Rockaway
restaurant in Warren number of
years ago. Thus it is possible for a
young man to rise in this land OF op-
portunity. =. .+/<*S.
s,hs,s Sjoquist family. formerly in the
lauldf business at Warren, was visit
ed by U.S. Mr.. Sjoquist is in the dray
business and doing WELL An excellent
family whose acquaintance we made
was Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Anderson.
Mr.. Anderson is the manager of Eddy's
Bakery, large, modern plant which we
Inspected
One day We together with the By
stroms visited the Great Falls Reduc-
ton Department of the Anaconda
Copper Mining Company, large plant
that employs several thousand men,
and consists of several mills and plants
for smelling and refining copper, cop:
per rod, wire and-cable manufacture,
electrOlytic zinc production and ferro-
manganese production. It was very in
teresting to watch the different pro-
nSponi011p. hn ~
melted copper into mOu1ds, making cop
per bars, and the making of copper
wire. The wire drawing process CON
sists of drawing the copper rod through
a succession Of dies beginning with
the larger and continuing unit the de-
sired size of wire is secured. The
stack of the Great Falls smelter is 500
feet high, and until recently was the
highest in the world. Its diameter at
thentop is so feet. 1t is now excelled
by the stack of the Washoe smelter at
Anaconda, Mont. which is $50 feet high
and its inside diameter at the base is
S6 feet, at the top is 60 feet, with walls
81 feet thick.
We motored out, after viewing the
smelter, to the Giant Springs, a couple
miles from the city, and they surely are
a natural wonder. A whole river of
clear, pure water p0urs out of the
ground and empties into the Missouri
river near by. 1t seemed strange that
the city Of Great Falls has not taken
It's water supply from this great and
never failing source
The city of Great Falls is a clean.
we'll built and progressive city of 35,-
600 people, the third largest city in the
state. It is situated in a great mining
and agricultural district and serves as
the wholesale and retail distributing
point for large territory. Coal is also
mined extensively. 1t. is also a manu-
featuring point, ample power being fur
nished by the falls Inland near the
city, the total descent of the river being
626 feet in a distance of six miles, so
We were told. Brick and flour are i'm
pOrtant articles of manufacture. It is
q great wool shipping point and 4 big
packing plant is located there. The
streets are wide and paved with creo-
s0te blocks and bitulithic Many of the
residence streets are beulevarded and
taken care of by the city. The city has
splendid park system. - =
The Bystroms live in 4 spacious and
beautiful bungalo in one Of the best
residence districts of the city. Mr.. By
strom is the Superintendent Of Yards
Of the Libby Yards Company, a concern
which together with the st. Hilaire Re-
tail Lumber Co., and several other lum-
Der companies form the so-called
Shevlin System. The Libby Yards
Company has twenty-eight, wards scat
tered all over Montana, all Of them I'M
der the supervision Of Mr. Bystrom.
I On the morning of Aug. 10, we turn
ed tour4automobiles with its, stately elk
horns hi the direction of Minnesota,
but our write-up of the trip home will
have to make another chapter.
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