Mine gets air train, man blows self up & chasing Mr. Bruin

Reprint of this story from the September 9, 1904 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community.

Locomotive at

the Ferris Haggarty

One of the greatest money savers inaugurated in the recent improvements at the Ferris-Haggarty mine is the locomotive. It is a Porter air type that traverses the tunnel level over a length of 1,300 feet. The locomotive pulls a train of ten two-ton cars, landing the ore in the ore bin where it is dumped onto the grizzlies. The locomotive has laid off twenty of the twent...

 

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