Show GREAT COPPER CAMP p Something About Grand Encampment En-campment Wyo SPRUNG UP IN A DAY Situatod in aautIful Valley at Foot Qf Sierra Mares Locality n 1rost PictUTtqUO Ono With Towering fozinta1is and Deep Canyons Five years ago Southren Wyoming was Iln unexplored domain tOday It Is teeming with thousands oC busy man actively engaged in 1ndlng down development de-velopment shafts and driving tunnels throughout 3 favored mineral territory something like twenty by fifty miles In extent It I a picturesque locality with towering mountain and deep canons can-ons traversed by many a mountain stream and waterfall whIch In former years alone broke the stillness oC this unexplored territory Most oC these streams are tributary to the North and South Forks of the Grand Encampment rIver These two streams debouch and come together In the extreme western end oC the basin of the Grand Encamp meat t tAGHICULTURAL AGRICULTURAL PARADISE This basin Is a veritable agricultural paradise and is already dotted with ranches where the finest vegetables arc brown and thousands oC acres or alfalfa with deep green color beautifies the valley und enriches the people em phoslzlng the exprcsslon Water is the God or Harvest Already miles upon miles of irrigation ditches have been constructed and the arid lands reclaimed re-claimed and made to blossom as the proverbial rose SITE OF GRAND ENCAMPMENT At the junction ot the two rIvers the city or Grand Encampment Wyo is now buildIng The town has on clea lion or 7326 feet and nestles at the very foolhllls of the Sierra Madre range which towers In lofty grandeur to the south and west The altitude In identical and the clImate clI-mate as salubrious as Manitou Cob Once In a while n winter comes alonE und covers the alley for a few weeks with snow but this Is seldom I A ranchman ranch-man who has resided In the valley about l1Cteon year has never had use for a sled excepting two winters This Is nol true however further up In the mountains There the snow commences Lo fall In October and the pcople of the valley are almost daily treated to the nOel scene of n snowstorm snow-storm raging In varIous degrees of fury from October until April or each rear FOUNDER OF THE TOWN It was on July 22 1817 that Willis George Emerson or the firm oC Emerson Emer-son MeCatirey visited this country on a tout ot Investigation at the solicitation solici-tation or Mr E Dickinson general manager and Mi E L Lomnx gen oral passenger and ticket aient or the Union Pacific railroad Where the town or Grand Encampment today stands was then a barren Waste oC sage brush but It was nn Ideal spot at the junction junc-tion of the two rivers the North and the South Fork of the Grand Encamp meat EYE OF A PROPHET Evidently 11 Emerson saw with the eye of n prophet and immediately commenced buildIng and bullde better bet-ter than he knew Ten hundred and thlrt three acres were proven up under un-der the placer act and a patent from the UnJled States government obtained for the lands the streets were graded a tow log shacks were erected and prospectors from Colorado Utah and Montana began 10 Invade the territory hooking for precious metals raves oC encouragement were alternated with those of depression Like all new minInG min-InG camps the interest ebbed and flowed rind then retreated leaving a borenness and desolation that was calculated cal-culated to hake the bravery oC the hardiest pioneer or the few who cnml In 1897 but n Spartan band remained DEVELOPING COUNTY It was Emerson lcCufCroy however how-ever who believed and kept on belle log while hundred or others turned b 1 rw T I5 I y1 g1j T Dam Above Grand Encampment c I any with indecision IC not l3helld I They cured thc services oC Mr Vm I Weston fL Prominent mining engineer or Colorado Springs Cob and spent two weeks In the hlllH surrounding Grand Encampment investIgating sm face IndicatIons for mineral It Is Cg tlmatd that the firm or Emerson 1lcCnffre spent moore than 10000 In caHh probing into the merits of this district bringing out samplM of ore and having thom assayed etc before they began the worle ot sounding the toscln that n ne mining camp had been discovered FAMOUS BOULDER A famous boulder or white quartz formation for-mation the diameter l oC which was ahout the size or a wagon wheel and which weighed perhaps seven 01 eight tons was found In Purgatory Gulch This 10011Cm l l WitS shot full oC free gold 1t waJ afterward broken up hauled to the railroad and sent to an Eastern smelter Hs value was some timing like liOO Ier ton rhc great vault or wealth the mother lode from I whence this boulder came is still I shrouded In mystery Nature glmarlS her secreets well and It remains for some sturdy maIne or novice mis the case may be t stumble onto Its source located somewhere In the surrounding fillls that wIll give 0 new coloring to the mining district In southern Yyom lag GREAT COPPER FIE1LDS Aside from this boulder no gold oC any importance has ever been found while copper l has been found In generous gen-erous quantitIes so emuch so Indeed that the territory Is known aH the Cop nor Fields or Southern Vyomlnc Time trend oC the dykes and veins in this district aa from southeast to northwest north-west Il is 0 coincidence worth or mention men-tion that a COP or the New York Her aId fell Into the hands of a sheepherder sheep-herder in which two 01 three columns of the most sensational readIng matter appeared regarding the mineral posl f bIlItles oC the Grand Encampment ml nlnS district This man was llr Ed t Haggerty c GRUBSTAKED HAGGEITr f Th descriptIon or the hog Iron capping cap-ping given cflUSCl Jh HaSGtrL lo rt member that In his wanderings over th hills and mountains he Imew or a pbare exactly as described lu the New York Herald He told some of his asIoclat 4 and they concluded to grubstake him and have him do some prosppcUOg iL The gentlemen who backed Mr 1 Hag gerly were Thomas Deal 1 M Rumsc cashier oC the First National Dank of RawllnM 1yo amid George Ferris noW deceased The result oC this was the filing on n claim 1m own al the HUtlcfeha being thc first two letters oC the name or th of the gentlemen Ru for JtumHcy do for Deal fc for Ferris and 1m for Harserl FERRISHIGGEnTY MINES ThIs occurred In the summer of 1S98 and resulted In the openIng up oC the celebrated lierrlsHngelty copper mines which were organized Into a company by Wlllls George Emerson January 28 lSD The history rends more IIIw Robert Louis Stccnsons story or the Enchunted Island than anything else or Home selections from the Arabian Knights This celebrnted property was In pay ore almost from grass roots and of such n phenomenal high grade that several hundred thousand dollars worth or ore was taken ta-ken out during the years 1S99 lJOO and 1901 hauled sixty miles by wagon and shipped to the Colorado and Chicago Chi-cago smellers at n Yen excellent proHt the development work was done to demonstrate that between three and four millions of dollars worth of ore 1M blocked out and In sight ut the present pres-ent lime The FerrlsHaggert properties was augmented later on by reason of its < < purchase by the North American Copper Cop-per company n company organized under un-der the laws oC thc State of New Jersey with n paId up capital oC 20OOOOOO f T I 1 J L J1 4 P r r 1 w > f i r4 I t 1 7 t 1 E li I rI1 jif ll I t1 l Y f Ili I tt 0 It I 1 l I JII r H4IJR Wr r4 4 t I J I m Ih f tI il1f r J I io nt f jI I I gr r 1 G J I r 1 A iI i I 1 1 f tr i t c t I = I II wjtf I r ittMt = = f I WP ffl1r 4 h Si rd k kt 1I I ¼ prIrJ jl RH i ltf11 I JLkl l rt < l ittrI I L f rifi nJ fi i1I Ij I i t g I I t It I H CCltio f tA a J 1t f Wi jJ4 7r c il 1 JO 1 ctCj I G p t Jg J I 7j jrt rnlJ f i J oJ 2tl 14 ii m c L 00 llik J 114 I r J J i 7 lh s 1 < J 1Pi1 N t I fz t1r B d i 1 l P1 RXr = E i1 fi r > i r f elt J r 4 Y t1 w sJYf w rJ i t t 1 J I T t I iij L > t J 0 > r 1 fll n t1 if il 1 < < I End of the Tram 1 Showing the Promoters and the First Car of Ore |