Show ABOUT THE BO B TRAM I longest Aerial Highway in the World CROSSES GREAT DIVIDE Highest Span 250 Flit Above the Ground Maximum Capacity OneHalf of Buckets Loaded Is 984 Tons Per Day On October 1i 1901 rlllis George Emerson succeeded In getting a contract con-tract from the FerrisFlaggaity Copper Mining company In which he agreed to eonslrucl an aerial trmwa to bring the ole from the FerrisHnggartr mine I to the smelt then In operation at the town of Grand Encamlllnent The signing of this contract changed the map politicallY and otherwise of the State or Wyoming Before this varIous methods had been discussed of transporting trans-porting the ores from the FerrlsBag gnrly mine to the market BuildinG a railroad had been considered but 05 the snow varies In depth In the Sierra Ma ire mountains from live to twent feet eight months oC the year It was deemed most ImlOsslble on account oC the great expense that would attach for snow sheds etc and the mountainous country through which the railroad would have to be built TRAMWAY DECIDED UPON Mr Emerson conceived the WelL that an aerial tramway was the only possible pos-sible solution and good mininG engineers engi-neers corroborated his views The re suit or this contract has been most phe nomennl resulting in the construction of the longest aerial tramway in the worldsixteen and onefourth miles long ABOUT THE TRAM In order tha the reader may have a better idea oC this tramwa which has attracted the curiosity of mining engineers engi-neers from all over the country It should be stilted that the FerrlsHago garl mine has an altitude of IlliG feet and Is 011 the western tloo ot the Sierra iladrc8 that Is to my the waters In the surrounding gulches flow Into the Pacific ocean while the town or Grand Encampment sixteen miles duo cast iR on the eastern slope the waters oC the Encampment river flowing Into the Atlantic ocean HOW 11 IS STRETCHED Beginning at the FerrIsHaggarty mine and starting eastward Uw tramway tram-way rIse In n mIle ILnd a half from 1455 feet above the sea to 1001 feet Then it stretches away Il distance or fourteen and tbreeoUrl miles us L tract cxlstln between 1fr Emerson and tale FCIrlsHaglartt Copper Mln inb company he was sagacious enough to see and understand Immediately the wonderrll contract tlS It guaranteed a mInimum pC 200 tons daily at the price of 4 per Lon or 800 per day or 292000 pe year of an income on the undertaking under-taking The cost oC operating the tramway tram-way Is nominal estimated by some to be only one cent per ton per mile hence tlw proposed Income was practically nIl profit STORY OF TRAMWAY IN BRIEF Longest In the world Length sixteen mIles Only tramway crossinG Continental Divide Neither end oC tramway on railroad Nearest railroad polnlGrantl En campmentiS mllestrom Union Pacific rai i ron d Only tramway In the world having double tension stations Number of towers 2iO Length of cables 293275 Weight of cables 1316GJ pounds Number ot tension stations 16 four double Lumber used 1250000 feet Average employment durIng construction construc-tion 200 men HIghest tower 6J feet elevation 99927 feet above sea levi l Tower with highest elevation above sea level 10600 feet on Blldger peak HIGhest span nnlngs gulch 260 feel above ground Longest span 2200 feet Cow creek canyon general raise 900 feet Other long spans 1200 and 000 feet Number of buckets on line SIO Capacity of buckets iOO pounds Maximum capacity of the tram one half or the buckets loaded 984 tons perU per-U Operated by three power stations four miles apart Only outlet for ore from FerrisHag garty mine vest slope Sierra Madre mounlalns I Buckets load and dump automatically automatical-ly 1 Built from February 1902 to October 1902Cost Cost 350000 Owncd by Southern Wyoming Tramway Tram-way company now a part oC the North American Copper company which own also the smelter concentrator electric plant watelworlcs and OllBH kindred enterprises in the city of Grand Encampment En-campment together with the wOlldre nowned FerrlHaggart copper mine with which the smelting WOllts arc connected by the tramway lIamWIl promoted by Emerson 1lcCaffny and associates Including John S Cary of Denvel president of both the North AmerIcan Copper company com-pany and the Mine und Smelter Supply company Trama now under supervision or Ihomas Graham who assisted In Its i construction Building or this tramway recognized IlS the greatest and most man lou8 engineering en-gineering teat or the new century In the Rocky mountains |