Tension tower on tram, September 11, 1907

The 16-mile-long aerial tramway, the longest in the world at the time, was considered an engineering marvel. It carried 840 buckets that held as much as 700 pounds of ore each from the mountains to the smelter.

Resource Identifier
ah01005_00624
Citation
Lora Webb Nichols papers, Collection No. 1005, Box 3, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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