Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-27
Mines AND MINING
Some Information About the
Buffalo Hump Country.
PROSPECTORS POURING in
Six Feet of Snow on the Ground But
a Rushing Business is
Being Done.
PROSPECTORS POURING IN

The Buffalo Hump country in Idaho is
beginning to attract the attention of
Butte mining men, and several have left
for there during the past few weeks.
II expect to see 1000 prospectors in
the district aroun Buffalo Hump next
SUMNER" said Ernest Gordon, Wednes-
day to a reporter for the Spokane Review.
The rush is beginning in spite of six
feet of snow he said. "Grangeville is
full to overlooking. l have not seen a
town in many a day where money is SO
plentiful and business so lively as in
Grangeville. The hotels can not accom-
modate the rush. Every availab BILE sleep
ing place is taken every night and | have
seen a dozen men sleeping in chairs in
hotel offices there of late just because
money would not buy a better place in
which to spend the night.
prospecting can not be done now, but
prospectors are coming. Men are coming
in from all the surrounding states for the
fame of the Buffalo Hump has spread all
over the country. Among those arriving
daily are many from Colorado, southern
Idaho, Utah and Montana.
nave we experts: ven, L SQOulO say
so. They are the real thing, too. Repre-
senta1ives of big capital are there waiting
quietly for snaps and swapping them up
as quickly as offered. Captain De Lamar
has had q representative there constantly.
Spokane capital is also much in evidence
and a number of fine properties are under
bond to Spokane men, among them the
first claim of them all, the Big Buff
falO.
O course not much work is in pro-
gress. The camp was discovered too late
for work this winter. The Jumbo, which
Sam. l. Silverman has under bond. is the
best developed property. A tunnel is rum
ming on a ledge from six to eight feet wide
and the values are said to be very high.
Some prospecting is being done on the
Big Buffalo ledge by a force under Mr..
Sllverman's direction. A few claim own
|ers are dong some small development. but
aside from that the properties are idle
and Will remain SO until spring comes.
The Lodges are strong in that district
and are almost invariably capped with
about 10 to IL feet of bull quartz which
Will not pan and was never considered
valuable for that reason. A ledge tina
will not pan free gold is not much want
ed in central Idaho. But under this bull
quartz the rich ore lies and it pans we'll,
some of it amazingly high.
"The extent of the rich district is not
known. The rich strike on Rabbit creek
proved that the mineral belt stretched
about II miles in that direction from the
Hump. Eight miles north Of the Hump
in Summit Flat camp discoveries have
been made recently which for ichness
rival the big things on the Hump itself.
The lodges are not so wide, but they seem
to carry higher values.
The ore of hat section will require
! cV9njGjnpr Ah0Dt 40 npr cent can hp ca we'd
on plates and the balance will be easily
saved by cyaniding as tests la proved.
The Buffalo Hump is reached by a
wagon trail from Florence or by WACO
road to Badger and thence in about Il
miles by a good trail. On the south ex-
posures the snow will leave the Hump
district comparatively early. On the
north hill sides it will remain until June
or later"