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September 1942. Deer Lodge County, Montana. "Smelter of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. Flues atop the battery of roasting furnaces; sulphurous and arsenic gases are carried to the large smokestack." Acetate negative by Russell Lee, Office of War Information. View full size.
Send it up the chimney and it's gone! Life was so clean back then ... NOT!
At 585 feet, it's the tallest surviving masonry structure in the world. The stack still stands today, and this was taken from nearly a mile away.
Foul odors from those roast ducts.
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