The Butte Inter Mountain

ONE-TWELFTH OF
POPULATION GONE
RAILWAY STATISTICS SHOW THAT
ANACONDA IS DECREASING AT
ALARMING RATE.
FATHERS OF FAMILIES GOING
Many Single Men Have Left, but a Large
Proportion Are Men Who Must
Find Food for Dependents.
SPECIAL TO THE INTER MOUNTAIN.
Anaconda, Nov. 7.—According to the officials of the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific
railway about one-twelfth of the population
of Anaconda has left Anaconda during
the past two days. The receipts of the local
ticket office indicate that more than 1,000
persons have purchased tickets out of the
city.
Every train going from Anaconda has
carried a quota of this number and the
end is not yet, apparently.
Of those who have secured tickets from
Anaconda the large majority are working-
men, the bread-earners of families. It
is true that many were single men with no
one to care for but themselves, yet of
those who have shaken the dust of the
city from their feet many heads of families have gone to seek employment.
At the present rate it would take but
a little more than two months for the entire population of the great Smelter City
to leave this section of the state. Within
the remaining months of this year, the city
that the late Marcus Daly made into a
prosperous industrial center, would be but
the bare ruins of its present self. Within
that time every laborer, every street car
man, every city and county employee and
every church and layman will have gone
from famous Anaconda should the present
exodus continue.
It is hardly likely that all of the residents will desert, but the conditions are
alarming at best.