Show BUTTE BUTE IS INDIGNANT I OVER A DAMAGE SUIT I Pollock Wire iro DUTTE BUTTE Mont Dec 5 Expressions 5 of or Indignation aro are h heard ard on onry every ry sid side re regarding re- re gar garding tho the attempts mado made by a c certain tow fow to get the United States ga government nt to tako take a hand In tho the Washoe smoke case It I is a well wel known fact tact that in recent years tho the damage has amounted to to tho the ranchers and a as far as damages to tho the government co are aro concerned there thero IK is not enough timber Umber of ot valna within a radius of f twenty miles le of Anaconda to warrant q bringing the suit Tho The company h has over Invested Inverted In In iii their plant while th the tho assessed c valuation I of oC the tho entire Deer Lodge valoy vaHey Is la not over WASHINGTON D Dec c. c 5 After After H a r hearing at the tho white whito house hause toda today today- at which tho the representatives of the Anaconda Ann Ana con conda coada a Copper company presented their side of tho the controversy antro over o tho destruction destruction de of af the forests and vegetation at Anaconda ala against which tho the farmers farmers farm farm- ers had bad complained fo Co him bier President Roosevelt declared that the only pa pa- tien o ho would woul exorcise in restraining the department of justice from proceed proceeding ing int with it an aD injunction suit against tho the copper capper company compan would be to make mako an investigation n to ascertain whether a practical method is possible for far the extraction ex ex- traction from rom tho the fumes of the smelters smelters tars of tho the poisonous substances which are aro doing great clama damage o oTho Tho president will wi send e an expert exert to Ducktown to jn investigate ata several smelters located there thero on which it i is claimed appliances have ha been used which extract tho sulphur and arsenic ar ar- genie fenie from tho the fumes at t a profit If I this investigation atan proves tb the practicability practicability of tho thio appliances which were placed on tho smelters after a decision by the court obtained by tho the state of Geor Georgia ia a against tho the company tho the president will wi order the tho department to proceed with wih an injunction suit |