Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-09-26
BUFFALO AND ATLANTA.
THIS COMPANY HAS BEEN WE'LL
MANAGED.
Ihls Is the Claim Made by Its President.
VINO Excepts 10 the 'sTimes'sv Stric.
lures Upon Its Management.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Sept. Is, 1888
10 THE EDITOR OF THE T1MEs.-
received few days since a copy OF
your newsy paper of the goth ultimo,
and my attention was arrested bv an
article headed "The Atlanta Lode
Upon its perusal stumbled. among
other interesting statements, across
the following item:
| IHE BuFFALo.-The Buffalo is a
good nine, on the main ledge, and
the company owns a good mill; but
both mine and mill have been mis-
managed. y.
do not know your correspondent,
who may be an attache to your edi-
torial staff, and withal very innocent,
lnotfensive young man. BE this as it
may; certain it is that he would not
-nor could he--make the above
statement of his own knowledge; his
inspiration to indite this SANDER surely
emanated from another source. and
any one conversant with Atlanta and
its people will find no trouble to trace
it to the true fountain-head; the case
Gus vapors perlneating the entire ar
tlcle indicate, like the needle to the
pole, the impure reservoir from
whence they escaped. The writer
would, indeed, do us an inestimablc
service to point out specifically where
in and in what manner the affairs of
the Buffalo Company at Atlanta have
been mismanaged. l can assure him
that such service would be CRATE
fully appreciated by the home office,
and literally rewarded. But let me
ask the gentleman, who so gliblv
passes judgment upon a matter of
which he knows nothing whatsoever,
what would Atlanta be to-day but for
the Buffalo Company and it's M1sMAN-
AGEMENT? 1t constructed a very
costly mill, and at great expense
through the efforts of Professor Kus-
tel of San Francisco-perfected a sys-
tenn of working Atlanta ores almost to
the full amount of their ASSAY value.
by its mill M1sMANAGEMENT it has
given mine-operators from 80 to 95
per cent. of assay value on all ores
intrusted to its care, and that at less
cost per ton than any other mill in
the Territory. 1t thus enabled GER
tain mines to be better opened, and,
in the case of the Tahoma, made it
possible to sell the same at a round
cash price. . Its MEASUREMENT Gre
ated market for the Z labor of the
miner, mechanic, etc, at fair prices,
and to business men an outlet for
their wares. In the beehive of At
lanta the Buffalo Company performed
its full share as a worker; the drones
enjoying some of the honey gathered
by it ought surely to exercise becom-
ing humility and wise discretion. The
people of Atlanta know these facts
too well, and l have no doubt that.
with but few exceptions, they duly
appreciate this part of the Buffalo
Company's M1sMANAGEMENr.
With regard to the Buffalo mine, it
S but necessary to say that it is as
we'll developed as any other on Allan
"a Hill; its shaft of $50 feet is as good
rs that on the Monarch-the latter
being fac smile of ours and pat
,erned after it. Its tunnels, crosscuts.
ETC., were built under competent fore
men. "lf any "coyoteing" has been
lone it must have occurred under the
Of its first superntend-
ent in lS14-15, and it seems to me
'ery ungracious on the part of your
correspondent to parade this fact in
your widely-circulated journal to the
letriment of a gentleman now IN At
anita and holding the responsible po-
'ition of superintendent Of a neigh.
boring mine. Certain it is that our
Buffalo mine received fair treatment
It the hands of subsequent superin
endents; developments were always
ranged to our available means, and
While minor mistakes may have been
made, in the main the management
vas as good-if not better-as any
'ther in the camp, so-called civil en-