Jeff and Susan went with us to Anaconda, a town formed around copper smelting in the late 1800s. The smelter was closed in 1980 over a labor dispute. The union workers were seeking a raise the company wasn't going to pay so they closed the plant, removed all the equipment and demolished the buildings except "the stack". 8000 jobs were lost but the town is hanging in there. The "stack" is 585 feet tall, 86 feet wide at the bottom and 60 feet wide at the top. It is a dominating structure in the area and can be seen miles away. You can not go near it due to hazardous contamination that the government is now cleaning up. One church from 1896 even has "the stack" in one of it's stained glass windows.
We took another 2 hour bus tour in a 1936 bus made for Glacier National Park. We then drove into the boonies to check out the countryside.
