ANACONDA

county seat of Deer Lodge County, Mont., 25 miles northwest of Butte, on the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern & Butte, and the Anaconda & Pacific railroads. Its existence is entirely dependent on the great Anaconda copper mines, in the vicinity, though several large railroad machine shops are also located there. The copper smelting works operating there are the largest in the world, from 5,000 to 10,000 tons being treated daily during periods of normal operation. It has a library of 6,000 volumes, two opera houses, one newspaper and one weekly paper. Pop. 1920, 11,668.