Show THE TOMBOY TRAMWAY the tomboy tramway is finished running smoothly is transporting about 1 buckets or over every twenty four hoi ho and is carrying almost anything in the li 1 of up tip freight that has to be handled for s si a large enterprise as the tomboy mir min says the examiner of telluride colora it is a new model beichert eichert BI built by t 1 trenton iron works trenton new jers and was installed by henry hall a bretl biot of george H hall of this city wh who 0 gravelin traveling representative for the firm a who at present is taking a hand at jo loading station prid and giving the big pr pro rop tion the severest tests he knows and th has never been the least trouble in ope 0 tion the tramway connects the tunnel or upper terminal with the loi load or railway y station at pandora it is 6 feet in I 1 length and has a fall of neary nearly f cable inches to the foot the stationary one and one eighth inches in diameter the traveling cable is three quarter inch the time the examiner man watched the arain ar ajram a working last sunday it had then been jin un operation two weeks there were nineteen I 1 buckets in use at that time with a capacity of about seven hundred pounds each or three to the ton the tram train is sup 1 l plied with automatic gripping appliances which both lock and unlock themselves by means of an angle rail down which and up which the grip on the buckets slides there are three bull wheels used at the lower terminal instead of the usual one one of these large grooved wheels is under I 1 the floor of the terminal building away from all possibility of anything getting into lt it and the two others which are set side aby by side though separated by about eight feet of space are be lowthe floor with the exception of about three feet and they are so boxed in that it would be very difficult for any person to be injured by them in any way the tramway is one of the most complete in detail yet built in this county with improved ideas everywhere manifest in its construction the towers are very strongly built on concrete foundations the timbers being securely fastened to the foundations by large anchor edons the lower alwer terminal is built over one railroad I 1 switch while another switch runs just below the building one is used for unloading up freight and the other to load concentrates and the concentrates are dumped from the buckets into a chute which takes them into the car for speed in moving freight coni vengence veni ence and a security of moving it in all kinds of weather the new tramway is a feature that cannot be beaten |