ore are taken out below the level of a thousand feet, the supply seeming inexhaustible. The production of the mines, with their smelters and reduction works, support not only this vast city, but in shipping their ores for treatment to the extensive plants, send out prosperity to Great Falls, Basin and Anaconda. In addition to the amount of coal and wood used at the mines and smelters, an immense quantity of manufactured lumber is used for timbering to support the works of the mines, extending its prosperous influence through the whole state.
The students of the State School of Mines here acquire a practical as well as a theoretical education.
Anaconda, twenty-six miles from Butte, has the great Washoe Smelters, the largest copper smelting and refining works in the world, employing eighteen
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