The Kennecott Mines


Early Days: 1907 (?)


Here are two grainy images of the site before the tram was fully operational with the second view looking down in the direction of the tram.  As you can see, the first tram head was very rudimentary.
Those are mining engineers taking samples of the slide area. This was loaded with broken up ore of varying degrees of richness. Much of this slide was eventually scooped up and sent down the tram line.

Even though these images are not that good, you can click onto either of them for a larger size.




 

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