The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-31
A NEW GOLD CAMP.
Great Excitement Over the,Discovery
of Buffalo Hump.

Great Excitement over therD1scoVery
of Buffalo Hump.
In speaking of the new gold camp of
Buffalo Hump, the Democrat of Boise,
Idaho, says:
North Idaho has gone wild over the
great quartz discovery on Buffalo
Hump mountain, about 20 miles from
Florence. Z. Baird, one of the Demo-
cratic delegates, who LETT Florence one
week ago last Wednesday, brought
some of the rock with him. 1t was rich
in free gold. He says the discovery and
samples of the rock created the most
intense excitement at Florence, and the
scene that followed surpassed any OF
the widest days Of the camp Of nearly
40 years ago.
Mr.. Baird's wife at Florence, in a
letter written the day after he left,
tells him that additional and wholly
reliable news brought in makes the
discovery far richer and more extensive
than at first reported; that even the
women had caught the fever and some
of them would &c to the new camp in
the hope of securing locations.
The Miner, of Florence, also says:
Last Saturday news of d wonderful
gold discovery on Buffalo Hump
reached Florence.
Charles Robins and R. r. Rigley
made the discovery. They QUILTED
here about three weeks ago.
The ledge they discovered is from 80
to 80 feet wide and crops ouS of the
ground for fully 1000 feet. 1t is min
eraliZed throughout.
Excitement here runs at fever heat,
and every man who could get horse
has left for the new strike.
People here were Sl1eptical at first,
and thought it was Il scheme of the
men to get q grubStaEe, but when they
I9.,l,s d sr-l@r
BROUGHT in they began to investigate,
and finding that it all showed gold by
pan test, there soon was an excitement
started and before night there were a
number. of men or the trail for Buffalo
Hump.
When these men returned they con-
firmed all that the prospectors had
said.
The values in this rock are something
phenomenal for a ledge of its size.
Samples assayed by ]. r. Wolf, of this
pace, gave the following returns:
Sample No. l, the wall rock-$1.45
silver a trace Of gold.
Sample No. 2, an average of "a feet |
of the ledge-s34.S1 in gold and silver.
Sample No 3, an average Of nine |
feet of the ledge-$45S.17 in gold and |
silver.
Sample No. 4, an average of three
feet of the ledge-$71z.17 in gold and
silver.
The samples from the ledge gave
about one-eighth their values in silver.
While some of the experts who have
examined the property are of the opin-
ion that these figures are too high, they
all agree that it is wonderfully rich
and that the vein is mineralized
throughout
Another test was made by parties
who have lust returned of an average
Of
Robins and Rigley's claims). The sam
pie weighed one-half pound, and was
pounded UP and amalgamated in a
hand mortar. 1t gave 81 cents, max
ing the ore worth $50 Per ton.
We learn that 1880 feet of the vein
has already been traced and located,
with five or six locations on a parallel
vein. A few claims have been taken
I'D as placer, and prospect well.
The course of the vein is almost due |
north and south. The country forma-
ion is a coarse grained granite and
.ude porphyrSte. There seems to be a
great deal Of schist, but very little !
notable on the east and is to be found !
alongside of the outcroppings.
Buffalo Hump is supposed to have l
IN altitude of 1880 feet. The new I
amp will be between 10000 and II, 900
eet high, making it, like Leadville, I
10 among the clouds. [
There will be an easy grade to the I
lew camp from Florence. Men who [
ave prospected and trapped over the @
ountry for years estimate the distance
rom Floreace to the Hump at between
5 and 80 miles.
A crew of men started out Thursday
o blaze and cut out trail. They
xpect to get clear through in about
We days. Quite a number of parties
ct lost in the first rush and were sew 4
raj days getting through. t
Z. A Parisot and Stewart Woodside ]
ERE the first parties to return from C
uffalc Hump and they say that Rig s
y and Robins did not exaggerate in