Known also as "Grand Encampment", this town along the Colorado-Wyoming border was, at the turn of the twentieth century, a booming center of copper mining and smelting. At one point a sixteen-mile tramway was built to carry copper ore from the mountains into the town for smelting. This steam powered tramway was, at the time, the longest in the world. A sharp drop in copper prices and disastrous fires drove the mining company into bankruptcy. Mining operations ceased in the early twentieth century. A large sawmill operated in the town between 1950 and 1998.
known also as "grand encampment" this town along the colorado-wyoming border was at the turn of the twentieth century a booming center of copper mining and smelting at one point a sixteen-mile tramway was built to carry copper ore from the mountains into the town for smelting this steam powered tramway was at the time the longest in the world a sharp drop in copper prices and disastrous fires drove the mining company into bankruptcy mining operations ceased in the early twentieth century a large sawmill operated in the town between 1950 and 1998