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BONNER Bonner is the homesite of the lumber operations of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. We left the loggin~ operations near Woodworth 1n our last issue, and now we move to Bonner to see what happens next. Let's take a look around the community first and see how it looks.
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ONE of the major necessities of mining is lumber. Not only are logs used in modern mining, but plenty of sturdy timber is required. In our last two issues we took you on a picture tour of the vast Montana logging operations in the woods out of Woodworth. Here the lumberjacks devote their time to providing logs for the mill at Bonner, which is about fifty miles away. At Bonner lumber is fashioned for the mines and smel ters: a great percentage of the total production of the mill is devoted to mi'ning operations. Over and above that. the mill at Bonner furnishes lumber in various forms to commercial customers. -For nearly fifty years the Anaconda Company has operated this mill at Bonner. The mill and the community lie in a valley formed by the mountains. The Big Blackfoot River courses its way past the town. It is a "company town" in the sense that all who live there are employed by the Anaconda Company.
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