The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-14
BUFFALO HUMP COUNTRY
Many Remarkable Surface Show
ings Found.
FAIRY STORIES EXPOSED
Some New Discoveries Made Upon the
Orc Fino-A Dollars Worth of
Gold Washed From an
Ounce of Rock.

Horace L. Mcintyre, the well known
mining engineer who for years was
employed by the government on North
ern Montana Indian reservations in the
capacity of engineer, and who is known
by mining men of Butte, has been in
the Buffalo Hump country nearly all
winter and spring. He was in Grange
willie, Idaho, the other day, and the
facts he relates with reference to af-
fairs in the much talked of Hump
country will interest all who are con-
cerned in that district and the prob
able results of work now going on there.
He said:
II have surveyed in the neighbor-
| hood of rs claims and found many re-
markable surface showings. The fairy
| stories which have been circulated of
great values on the surface, from $500
| up to thousands, are not verified, after
| a careful and exhaustive examination.
| Il did find a great number of COM
| paratively low grade propositions, say
| from 81 up A vast number of these
leads are very large and well defined
| on the surface, and from what devel-
| the question in my mind that the veins
are true assures. The walls are of a
| solid granite formation dipping, with
| a few exceptions, to the east The
ample tale seams next to the wall in
| dictate that the veins are not likely to
| freeze up. The greatest values are on
| the surface, owing to the fact that the
veins have been exposed to the influ-
| ences of the elements for generations,
| but nevertheless sufficient values go
down to make the ore very profitable
| to handle. Like all good gold mining
camps the vein pinches out almost en-
| tirely in some places. But the man
| who has enterprise to follow it a little
! further finds it to widen out again.
| The values in the Big Buffalo during
| it's late development decrease at times.
| AS an evidence of the continuity of the
| vein, however, during the past three
| weeks the owners Of the property
cross-cut easterly from the end of the
south drift, and opened up a body of
high grade ore. The vein now in the
face is the full width of the cross-cut.
| Horses appear from time to
time in these leads, only to disappear
again in a short distance, but even in
| these granite horses values have been
| found from 81 to IS per ton.
THE snow has now gone off, ex-
| posing the lodges on the Big Buffalo,
| the Merflmac ana lne OrO flDO, lne
| group that originally caused the excite
ment, and one can't help having symp-
toms of the fever again when he looks
| at them. You can 20 along this large
ledge and break piece after piece from
| it, showing much free gold in almost
| every piece, and in those pieces in
which you find no free gold the assays
| are astonishing.
Some new discoveries have been
made upon the ORC Elmo. A ledge Is
feet wide extending along this claim
carries free gold in such large quanti-
| ties that the owners of the claim as
sert that they could make good wages
| with a mortar, pounding it up and
/ washing it out. AS an evidence of its
richness l saw 81 worth of gold wash
ed from an ounce of rock.
| Another promising property in the
| Buffalo Hump is the Monte Cristo
| Beginning at the surface and cOntin-
uing down a depth of 80 feet, the val
| ues were most satisfactory indeed, car
rying high values in both gold and
silver. At that depth the surface wa
ter, caused by the rapidly melting
snow, drove the miners out of the