World's Greatest Copper Plant on Anaconda Hills
Anaconda Copper Mining Company bids begin the construction of a vast copper smelting complex east of Anaconda. The project aims for five thousand tons daily capacity, with steel buildings and machinery contracts already awarded, as the Washoe plan evolves into a larger Amalga mated Company project.
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Montana
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Anaconda
Monster Stacks
Standard
Daly
Butte
Silver Bow County
Great Falls
Montana 1899 metal production and plant plans
Official Helena assay figures show gold and silver output for 1899 with copper value tied to electrolytic price. Anaconda plans a million-dollar upgrade of the old works, expanding to about five thousand tons daily and likely doubling copper output for the region.
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E. B. Braden
United States Assay
Helena
Montana
Lake
Anaconda Smelter Project Plans Massive New Plant
The article outlines a forthcoming Anaconda works site on a hill above the town. It describes a two-part concentrator with a central power station, a roaster building with Melougail roasters, reverberatory furnaces, a blast furnace block, and a large converter complex. Total investment tops three million dollars with extensive railroad and flume work to support 5,000 tons daily capacity.
Anaconda Smelting Works Reports Large Copper Output
The Anaconda plant last month produced about twelve million pounds of copper with nearly five thousand tons of ore hauled daily from Butte mines. About 5,500 workers were employed at Anaconda and its subsidiary plants, with nearly 4,000 more in Butte on Anaconda properties.
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Butte
Anaconda
Montana Appoints Native Son to State Supreme Bench
Robert Lee Word, born in Virginia City in 1866, becomes Montana's first native to join the state supreme court. Though a Democrat by birth, Word is described as not partisan and is noted as an associate justice amid Montana’s early frontier history and Yale education.
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Robert Lee Word
Supreme Bench of
Montana
Supreme Bench
Samuel Word
Alder Gulch
Virginia City
Mr. Word
Yale
Supreme Court
Lee
Justice Word
Butte Montana Faces Amassive Ground Collapse Threat
Read in Cork that Butte Montana, a 50 000 population mining town, is cracking and sliding down its hillside. Geologists blame a granite base under loose gravel with past volcanic tilting, while residents flee as courts churches and homes threaten to plunge into the valley.
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Butte
America
Montana
United States Senate
W. A. Clark
New York
Mr. Clark
Court House
Presbyterian Church
Public Safety
Terrard
Crete
Bouces
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Mechanical Levi
Athan
Acros
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Ture
Lars
Warm Spring Canyon
Main Street
The
Railroad Con
Mill Creek
Con
Bluff
Deer Lodge
Tle Carroll
Durston
Main
Park Avenue
South Side
Mr. Klepetko
Tion
Klepetko
Ing
Amalgamated Group
Cork
Ireland
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