The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-09-08
Wonderful Discovery 200 Miles North
of Weiser.
RIVAL OF THUNDER MOUNTAIN.
Excitement is High and Pilgrim Prospectors
are fastening to the New Field.


miner.
Last Saturday news of q wonder
full gold discovery on Buffalo Hump
reached Florence.
Chas. Robins and b. r. Rigley
made the discovery. They outfitted /
here about three weeks ago
The ledge they discovered is from
80 to 80 feet wide and crops out OF
the ground for fully 1000 feet. 1t
is mineralized throughout
Excitement here runs at fever heat |
and every man who could get horse
has gone to the new strike.
People here were skeptical at first,
and it was thought scheme of the
men to get Il grub stake, but when
they saw the ore that Robins and
Rigley brought in they began to in
vestigate, and finding that it all show
ed gold by pan test, there soon was
an excitement started and before
night there were Il number of men on
the trail for Buffalo Hump.
When these men returned they
confirmed all that the prospectors
had said
The values of this rock are some
thing phenomnal for a ledge of its
size Samples assayed dy j r
Wolf, of this place, gave the follow
ing returns:
Sample No. 1, the wall rock-S1 40
silver, trace of gold
Sample No. 2. an average Of "a
feet of the ledge-$34 81 in gold
and silver
Sample No. B, an average OF 8
feet of the ledge-$45S II, in gold
and silver.
Sample No. 4, an average of 3
feet OF the ledge-$7l2 II in gold
and silver
The samples from the ledge gave
about one eighth their value in sill.
YER
While some of the experts who
have examined the property are o.
the opinion that these figures are toe
high, they all agree that it is wonder
fully rich and that the vein is miner
allied throughout.
Another test was made by parties
who have just returned, of an aver
age sample from the Big Buffalo ~
OF Robin and Rigley's claims) TIN
sample weighed one-half pound an'
was pounded up and amalgamated il
II hand mortar 1t gave 34 cents
making the ore worth $3.50 per ton
We learn that II, 500 feet Of TIN
vein has already been traced and 10
Gated, with five or six locations on
parallel VEN A few claims hav
been taken up as placer, and prospec
well.
The course of the vein is almOs
due north and south. The countr
formation is coarse grained grant
and rudely porphyriiic There seem
to be n great deal of schist, but ver
;e little mica to be seen. The schist
most notable on the east and is TO b
found alongside the outcropings
Buffalo Hump is supposed to nav
an altitude of II, 500 feet. The ne
camp will be between 10, 900 al
II. 600 feet high, making it, like Lea'
vile, up among the clouds.
a crew of men started out Thur
day to blaze and cut out trai
They expect to get clear through
about five days Quite Il number
parties got lost in the first rush ar
were several days getting throug
EXPERT OPINIONS.
E. A. Parisot and Stewart Woo
side were the first parties to retu
from Buffalo Hump and they say tn
Rigley and Robins did not exagera
. in the least when they said they III
36 feet of solid quartz, that the led
is even wider, and sufficient ore is
sight to last lifetime.
Mr.. Woodside is an old miner a
millman with % years experien'
When asked what he thought of
he said:
"lt is simply wonderful 1
-. biggest thing in the shape of qua
| have ever seen. The story has !
been half told | went out there
} m find out and will go bach right ava,
m Frank Brown, an old Colora
miner says:
~ have seen all the big mines
ga ga Colorado, but | never saw surf
ept showing that would in any way &c
and pare with this | never expected
see anything like it. l have loca
pms p'd claim and am going back as soon
,ept can get pack animals and supp
together.
and j. G. Moore, a very conserval
,ept mining man of wide experience,
ana examined the new discovery and
lev gives rs permission to quote hin
follows:
Ted- sIt is wonderful surface showi
ard viii make one of The big.