Front:
The Highest Stack
in the World,
B. & M. Smelter,
Great Falls, Mont.
Height 506 feet.
Back:
R-46813
THE HIGHEST STACK IN THE WORLD,
B. & M. SMELTER, GREAT FALLS, MONT.
This Chimney is 506 feet in height. 16,000 tons of
brick were used in its construction. The chimney is
constructed engineeringly to stand a wind of 120 miles
an hour. The stack weighs 34,000,000 lbs.
267,000,000 eggs could be placed in the chimney. It
would require a hen laying an egg every day for 730.000
years to supply this number or, if a hen had started to
lay an egg a day when Adam was in the Garden of Eden
3,000 B. C., it would have the stack less than 1-100 part
full now.
The Washington Monument which is 50 feet aquare
at the bottom and 20 feet square at the top, could be set
inside this chimney without touching any wall, and there
would still be room between the walls of the chimney and
the monument to drive a span of horses from top to
bottom.
If railroad tracks, of standard gauge, were laid vertic-
ally on the inside of the stack about 14 feet centers, there
would be room for 14 railroad trains 500 feet long.
AND ISLAND
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