Rudefeha Mining Company to develop property

Reprint of this story from the October 10, 1902 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community.

A rival of the great Ferris-Haggarity

Rudefeha Mining Company Will Develop Promising Property on the Divide

The Rudefeha Properties Join the Ferris-Haggarty on the South. This Property Will Be Developed By A Long Tunnel of 885 Feet.

The Rudefeha Mining Company bids fair to become as noted among Grand Encampment companies as is the Ferris-Haggarty.

The properties adjoin, the Rudefeha company’s ground lying to the south of the Ferris-Haggarty, while the outcroppings and float are the same as that which have led to the discovery of the camp’s great mine. The float may be traced from the one property to the other, and the iron showing on the Rudefeha company’s property is from 80 to 200 feet wide. In securing this extension would alone justify the new company in making great promises as to the future of the property, but actual development has demonstrated that there is reason to expect another big mine close at hand. Assays taken from a shaft on the extension of the Ferris-Haggarty vein gave values of $22 per ton in gold and four and one-half percent copper.

The management proposes to develop this property by a long tunnel of 885 feet, which will secure a vertical depth of about 3000 feet. This is the cheapest method by which the ore bodies may be opened up, owing to the steepness of the hill and the economy of tunneling when possible to reach sufficient depth.

The new aerial tramway to the Ferris- Haggarty mine crosses the property close to the Rudefeha company’s ground and it will afford the cheapest transportation facilities to the smelter in Grand Encampment.

C. D. DeWitt is considerably interested in the Rudefeha company, and he has associated with him some prominent business men in the East. William T. Smith is president of the company, and is one of the most prominent retail merchants of Morristown, Indiana. Jim. K. West, vice president, is president of the Indianapolis Fancy Grocery Co., of Indianapolis, Ind., and Mr. DeWitt, who is secretary, is the popular clerk at the Ferris-Haggarty commissary.

The building of the tramway has been an impetus to the Rudefeha company in getting to work at a very early date in order to ship ore when the tramway starts. If the leached capping on the extension of the Ferris-Haggarty leads to the magnificent ore bodies which have been opened upon the original ground, the Ferris-Haggarty will have a twin sister which will be a fair rival indeed, as the vein on the new property shows at the surface to be a big one.

Minor Notes:

Porter & Slothower have about completed the erection of their new store building at Rambler and are now receiving their large stock of goods. Mrs. Farris, the freighter, is hauling in the goods, which means a prompt and safe delivery of same.

The first electric light pole was erected on Freeman Avenue last Tuesday and Supt. Dobbins celebrated by decorating same with flags. Thus another substantial evidence of Grand Encampment’s wonderful progress in public improvements is recorded. It will not be long before all the streets and residences will be lighted.