Eventually, a company known as Anaconda Copper emerged as a monopoly, expanding into the fourth largest company in the world by the late 1920s.
Anaconda Copper used American Brass' position as the dominant firm in the brass manufacturing industry to engage in price-fixing.
(He had gone short on Anaconda Copper against his broker's advice, the little scamp.)
Mr. Klasik's parents and uncle labored at Anaconda Copper, once the industrial mainstay here, and saved to buy the store.
Mining, the town's mainstay and claim to fame, had been stopped several years previously when Anaconda Copper shut down its Butte mines.
The El Salvador mine was developed by Anaconda Copper.
The Guggenheims gave up control of the mine in 1923 when they sold 51% to Anaconda Copper, which acquired most of the remainder in 1929.
The only coal-fired Willamette worked for Anaconda Copper.
Labor relations and the corporate operations of Anaconda Copper are also related.
Nearby was the former Bluwater Mill, a uranium mill operated by Anaconda Copper from 1954 to 1982.