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Show By Dweret Telegraph. ALT A, TRAMWAYS ASD TII1XGH. Alta, Utah, 22d. AUa has grown tenfold since my visit last spring. It now looks much like Piocbe did when first visited it some two years ago. Here numerous valuable mines are being worked with great energy. The self-acting tramway as an enterprise is a success. Its transfer capacity, from the mines to tho town a distance of twenty-five hundred feet, is ten tons of ore to the hour, the returning buck- , ets conveying wood, provisions, and j articles, to the mines in addition. The iron wire rope to which the buckets buck-ets aro permanently attached is five-eighths five-eighths of an inch in diameter. There are in all forty seven small buckets and two large ones. The Bmall ones with tha attachments when empty, weigh about one hundred and fifty and hold about one hundred pounds of orr. The full ones running down carry back tho empty ones on tho return rope, no other motivo power being needed. Gravitation does tho entire work, except ex-cept in working the brakes, which are manipulated by hand. The buckets hsDg about three feet from the rope. The stations cn which the ropes are sustained are of an average height of 37 feet, are two hundred feet apart and are made of four largo logs well braced and framed together below and above ground. The speed of the hucketa is some three miles per hour. This tramway belongs to tho Vallejo and South Star mining company, and I was built at a cost of eight thousand dollars. Tho immortal Miss Simons, who braved the dangers of this remarkable re-markable ascent, rode at the rate of three miles per hour in an uncomfortably uncomfort-ably small square backet suspended some thirty odd feet from the ground. The tramway from AUa to Granite is oommenced. Its rope is made of steel wire, and is two inches in diameter. diame-ter. This nioo mile enterprise is under un-der way and imj soon be completed. Mr. Martin, the chief' engineer, tells me it is to have four rnpe.t The canyon road is terribly dusty and cut up with ore wagons. Good pro-poets for snow now pending. A. M. M. |