First Published Account of Location of Smelters
The Anaconda company led by Haggin Hearst and Tevis, with Marcus Daly, plans to erect smelting works near Warm Springs Deer Lodge county. A 300 ton per day capacity will start, with 200 workers, rail links, and future expansion, using calcining and reverberatory furnaces and matte production for export to Baltimore or Swansea.
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Anaconda Company
Butte
J. B. Haggin
George Hearst
Lloyd Tevis
San Francisco
United States
Montana
Marcus Daly
Alice
Daly
Anaconda
C. X. Larabie
Mike Hickey
Swansea
Wales
Thia
Pacific Coast
Virginia City
St. Lawrence
Marcus Daly and Co. X. Larabie
Baltimore
Casting About for a Location for Anaconda Smelter
The Anaconda company plans a 150 ton per day smelter at Warm Springs creek in Butte County with an immediate outlay near a million dollars. Marcus Daly confirms Warm Springs chosen and work to start at once with operation by October and a new railroad from Warm Springs or Stuart. Hundreds to be employed during building and operation, signaling strong local industrial confidence.
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William McCaskell
Daly
Stuart
Warm Springs Station
Pennsylvania
England
Warm Springs
New Northwest
Anaconda Company
Butte
Big Hole
Warm Springs Creek
Blackfoot
Marcus Daly
United States
Montana Railway Company
Anaconda
Utah & Northern
Messrs
Caprice
Copperopolis Towns Name and Smelter Site Near Warm Springs
The New Northwest reports in June 1888 that Anaconda smelters rise on the north side of Warm Springs creek near bluffs about 20 miles from Deer Lodge, 26 from Butte, and 24 from Deer Lodge. A ditch seven and a half feet wide advances toward grading ground for the smelter, with eighty workers. Railroad surveys run up the valley center, circling to the right to cross the creek toward the smelter. Opposite the smelter, half a mile away, the new Copperopolis town site is surveyed on a level plain, framed by timbered mountains to the southwest and snow caps most of the year, with the creek and railroad between town and work progressing.
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Northwest
Anaconda
Warm Springs Creek
Bluffs
Deer Lodge
Butte
Copperopolis
E. B. Waterbury
G. C. Vineyard
P. Levengood
Stuart
Wilson
Stuart & Anaconda
New Northwest
Anaconda Growth and Rail Ambitions Describe boom era notes
Early reports from New Northwest describe Anaconda swelling with activity as 20 teams and 40 daily workers signal growth, private lots sales begin, and a survey for a standard gauge railroad from Butte to Silver Bow and Hump area takes shape.
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E. B. Waterbury
Butte
Copperopolis
Silver Bow
Hump
New Northwest
Butte Town Developments Include Brickyards and Stores
In Butte, Ross Clark begins a general merchandise store as town lots are to be sold. Two canvas boarding houses with bunks for 40 men, many tents along the creek, and two brickyards under way to fill a 50 000 brick contract. Two four horse stages run from Butte on the same day returning the next.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Ross Clark
Deserted Carroll Arroll Town Of Anaconda Suburb History
The article recalls Carroll as a red painted suburb of Anaconda built to house smelter workers. It details diverse residents from Austrian and Italian to Russian leaders, notable figures like George Latram and J K Evelyth, social gatherings at Engelhardt homes, early transport dreams, and a major 1888 fire that destroyed the lower smelter but led to swift rebuilding with steel structures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll
Anaconda
Pole
Italy
van Martin
Browning
Billy
Engelhardt
Carroll Town Recalled In Anaconda Sketch of Prosperous Past
A reminiscence recalls Carroll once a thriving village near Anaconda with cottages, boarding houses, and slag heaps. Now deserted. stores ruinous. former residents scattered across the world. The piece invites lingering memories of a bygone boom and the old days.
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Carroll
Colonel Estes
Old Town
Anaconda
Carroll Town
Boarding House Pioneers of Carroll Montana Era
Mrs. Patrick Skelly and family led the first boarding house at Carroll near Anaconda. They came from Amador County California to manage the facility tied to the new works, with about 400 boarders combined at Carroll and the California hotel. The Skellys hosted crews, saw San Francisco connections, and helped shape early town life alongside figures like Marcus Daly and J B Haggin.
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Montana
Evans Opera House
Evans Hall
William Thornton
Malcolm Brownlee
J. H. Durston
A. C. MacCallum
L. G. Smith
Frank Miller
G. B. Winston
George Bartlett
George Lindsley
William Read
Robert Paxson
L. O. Leonard
Otto Stahlman
John Merrill
Sam Johnstone
Colonel Estes
William Hoge
Francis Sargeant
Mr. Blackford
Sidney Jennings
South America
William Playter
Fred
Ridgley Peckover
T. J. McKenzie
Dr. Macdonald
Ed Maxwell
Richard Kunkel
Sam Bridge
Evans’ Opera House
Anaconda
Patrick Skelly
Carroll
Jackson
Amador County
Cal
Skelly
California
Front
Skellys
Blanche
Grover Ritter
Tonopah
Carroll House
California Hotel
Neil MacDonald
Braund
Butte
Alice McAndrews
Alaska
McAndrews
Deer Lodge County
Marcus Daly
J. B. Haggin
Lloyd Tevie
Tevis
Haggin
William McCaskell
Swansea
Wales
W. LD. Dodridge
C. C. Rueger
Lexington Mining Company
Carl
Emma
Ruegers
Bonicia
Gak Lee W. Foster
Foster & Estes
Mr. Foster
Chester Place
Los Angeles
Salt Lake
A. M. Walker
N. J. Bielenberg
Butte Hardware Company
I. F. Kirby
Harvey Mahan
Frank Mahan
Anaconda Fourth of July Picnic on Warm Springs Island
From the Butte Miner July 5 1884 the upper Deer Lodge valley held a grand Fourth of July celebration on Warm Springs creek islands two miles below Anaconda. The procession included N Dickinson the day’s president and J W Forbis the orator with C K Hardenbrook reading the declaration of independence. Food was abundant and hospitality generous as families fed three other families each. The band entertained from 3 pm onward with fantastic trips late into the night in a grand patriotic free and easy picnic.
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Butte
Deer Lodge Valley
Warm Springs Creek
Anaconda
Montana
N. Dickinson
C. K. Hardenbrook
J. W. Forbis
Anaconda grows from rumor to bustling town in Montana
From the New Northwest Anaconda Montana July 29 1883 reports rapid town growth after the June start of a smelter and concentrating works. A boarding house opens and dozens of workers arrive alongside shops brickyards mills and a sawmill district. Visitors from Deer Lodge and Butte fill the streets as the town boasts 200 to 300 residents and brisk activity.
Anaconda Notes on Local Businesses 1883
A correspondent lists Anaconda vendors with Harvey Mahan expanding hardware. J Ross Clark sells general merchandise. D Cohen Jr opens a general supply store with plans for a brick storeroom. William Thompson runs a lumber branch nearby. Chris Nissler's drives amber beverage trade. James Keefe operates the Anaconda House hotel. Halvorson Tyler run a tobacco news and fruit depot with minor dry goods and clothing stock.
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New Northwest
Miner
Anaconda
Harvey Mahan
Kinna & Jack
Butte Hardware Company
J. Ross Clark
D. Cohen, Jr
Chris Nissler
The Wonderful Human Machine and Electro Vigor Claim
A promotional pitch describes the body as a machine run by nerve force and electricity. It promotes Electro-Vigor as a self powering device made of dry cell batteries that allegedly cures rheumatism nervous debility weak stomach kidney and liver troubles lame back sciatica varicocele and overall weakness without charging or belts.
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Earth
Grugs
Chauffeur Checks On Pedestrian After Street Collision
In a Punch captioned scene a chauffeur asks a pedestrian if he is hurt after being overtaken by a motor car. The victim replies that he must see his solicitor, suggesting legal concerns follow the incident.
Better Than Spanking Home Treatment for Bed Wetting
A notice from Mrs. M. Summers of South Bend Indiana offers a free home treatment for bed wetting claiming it works for children and adults with urine difficulties. She states spanking is ineffective and urges mothers to write for instructions without sending money.
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M. Summers
Box W. South Bend
Ind
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Wunderlich’s
Union Pacific
Northern Pacific
Evans
Morgan Evans
Upper Valley
O. J
Arroll
Michael Carroll
Red Town
Little Red Town
George Latram
Kimberly
Africa
J. K. Evelyth
Mexico
Baron von der Ropp
Selby
London
Harry Webb
Johannesburg
America
States
Kirst Spadeful
Anaconda Review
John Mills
Joe Long
Beau Brummel
Reed
W. D. Dooridge
Charles Derby
N. T. Johnson
Keefe
Ahrens Bros
Taylor & Son
John G. Evans
Mr. Cohen
William Thompson
T. B. Caldwell
Parma
Idaho
H. B. Chipman
Bozeman, Mont
Dr.s. A. Hall
Electro-Vigor Co
Sixteenth Street
Denver
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