Season's developments in Three Forks section

Reprint of this story from the December 16, 1910 issue of Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community.

It is always pleasing to hear from the Three Forks section because whatever is doing there by L. A. Pease or his companies is on the substantial and real development order.

The Snake River Company under Mr. Pease’s Management is making substantial progress toward production. This company has a number of proven deposits and it puts all its work into developing them and its whole property seems to be prolific in mineral veins. This season it has opened up three new deposits that were not known before and these three strikes have added greatly to the value of the company’s holdings.

One of these strikes is a silver lead ore shoot near the north end of the company’s holdings on the Three Forks vein. A second is a new branch or parallel vein near the middle of the 500 foot tunnel diverging from the tunnel into the foot wall. The third strike is an entirely new copper vein on the Homestake claim that was revealed in the south bank of the river at a time when the river was lower than ever before. This vein is the second one to be opened up on the Homestake and it cuts across into the lower end of the Anaconda and into the Independence claim, both of which belong to the Snake River Company.

We hear that Mr. Pease has arranged to spend part of the winter in Denver and that preparations are afoot for putting in a hoisting plant in the spring so that the present working shaft which is all the way on the ore can be sunk deep enough to warrant the installation of a mill to concentrate the ore of the Three Forks vein.

The Snake River Company has done a large amount of retimbering and general work preparatory for machinery and we look to Three Forks for early returns for the money that has been so judiciously spent there by the Snake River Company and the interests allied to it.

The several railroad projects are constantly drawing nearer to the Three Forks district and transportation facilities will soon be greatly improved.

Beside the metallic minerals at Three Forks immense coal fields are nearby, including the Routt county anthracite deposits, and these important beds are more easily approached from Three Forks than from any other point.

Mailing Christmas Packages

With the near approach of the giving holiday season the local post office department is preparing for the usual rush of business, and offers several suggestions tending to remove the yearly complaint of delay, lost packages and such like.

Postmaster Ashley suggests that the senders of packages should be particular in providing a legible and complete address and that the return address should be placed on the package. Another suggestion covers the placing of the stamps, and a third, little known as yet, as in the case of registered packages where a return receipt is desired.

The suggestion offered the sender of Christmas packages are as follows: Wrap packages with firm paper and tie with stout string.

Be sure that the address is written legibly and with complete name, street address, city and state.

Be sure, too, that the sender’s or return address is written in the corner.

Be sure that in placing the postage the stamps do not overlap the edge of the paper wrapping or are placed across the wrapping string. In such cases the package becomes “sealed,” and can only be accepted as first-class mail matter, requiring double postage.

It is safer to send packages by registered mail. The registry department at the post office is open, both for receiving and delivering registered mail or packages, until 6 p.m. each day except Sunday.

Under the new departmental order, should the sender desire a return receipt showing the delivery of a registered package, it must be marked “Return receipt requested”. Without this request no return receipt will be obtained.