Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-12-16
BY WILLIAM NJ. BOLE

# like the "Slas Wegg with the wooden Leg" who
Charles Dickens tells about feel like dropping into
poetry over bring readers this morning
feel they will It is not often in lifetime
serving them with the that give them
Of such Importance to and all them The state
ment that the Anaconda Copper has purchased
controlling interest in the American Brass as stated
in the A. P dispatch York. might not
to them without the side lights the story that in
position to give them
This dispatch substance that the Anaconda Cop
per company has steady market which
all the copper and which the companies produce when
operated at their top capacity and then That
itself is glorious Christmas to the whole OF Montana
it the resumption Of the mines and seter
time that Mr. John D. Ryan and the other
high officials of the company have been much distressed by
fact that thousands of their old and loyal employees in the
state facing hard winter without employment and they
have for months been trying to figure out OF setting
them at work again. We state fact when
assert that this powerful lever that moved them
bringing about this brass company deal
It would be good enough to the whole state to know
that in the near future the mines and smeers Of the COM
much to Great Falls But understand that the deal
means great deal than that to Great Falls It
not only that will have big payroll the river
had, but that will have much larger
payroll than had In the statements that follow
do not to speak by authority and yet willing to
such reputation may have for sound deductions
from what know to be facts the made here
will be converted into brass by the eectroc in the
Falls plant The best and cheapest Of making
with the Anaconda Copper the American Brass
had realized this fact and contemplated scrappng their
furnaces and installing the modern Now eec
large factor making brass by this
well known fact that there place in the United
States where large units of electric be delivered
cheapy Great Falls We therefore feel fully justified
saying without authority from the company that it
will manufacture its brass here The logic of facts is all the
authority need The plant do is here large part No
doubt however will involve considerable construc-
ton The natural inquiry of the reader will be- when will
good things materiaze Here deduction becomes
little vague We do not know the exact date but feel
fident that will be Whether beginning will be
month later will have to determine
for 1nfh
letting powers of and deduction have full
play may well go the limit and point few facts
which carry further along the road of deduction and vision
the future Many of the handcaps to manufacturing in
Montana have been removed by changes wrought by the
We China Japan and the Orient by five
thousand miles of travel than the New England New
York coast is We also much the eastern coast
Of South America which be reached by the Atlantic
without going round the Horn paying tolls through
the Panama canal while barring thousand miles of rail to
Seattle Great Falls would have straight route down the
coast to Peru Chile and Argentina The labor fferenal
between the east and the west before
the 1t within the bounds of reasonable hope and
expectation for the future that manufactured brass
and bronze Falls might seize and hold the
kes Pacific coast and of the Orient Also OF these
days. and many thousands find employment in realizing
this dream of the future
But without dreaming at all the im9ediae future
bright enough We congratulate H company offlcla
the people Of Great Falls and the whole state on the