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Rh hundred men and treating five thousand tons of ore daily. The ore is sent to the concentrator, where it is reduced to concentrates, then separated from the waste. From there it is taken to the calcine plant, where the sulphur is removed. The mass is smelted in the reverberatory and the silica and iron are taken out as slag, the remaining matte is run through the concentrator and casting house, where it is cast into bullion bars of gold, silver and copper, then sent to the refinery.

The people of the city of Anaconda have reason to be proud of its extensive library, fine opera house and its magnificent hotel, the "Montana." I again made a trip westward over the Oregon Short Line from Butte, changing cars at Pocatello. I remained over one day at Nampa, Idaho, and then went on to Portland and down the Columbia river to Astoria, Oregon.