Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-09-08
FORTUMATE"F0RTuNE' MINE TWO MORE RICH STR|KESI(
Lane c. Gillian Tells 1.-The Press" What
He Has Seen.
From Thursdays daily.

He Has Seen.
From Thursdays daily.
Lane G. Gillian arrived in
Grangeville from Buffalo Hump
last night. He is on his way to
Spokane to confer with his asso-
ciates Norman & Cameron, rela-
tive to some new finds which have
just been reported. Mr.. Gillian
has just returned from a flying
trip through the Mallick district
and the Crooked river country and
says that he is thoroughly convinc-
ed that it is wonderful section all
the way through. 1t is unneces-
sary to tell the readers of the
Press who Lane Gillian is for
probably he is the best known
mining man today in the Buffalo
Hump camp.
To a PRESS reporter Mr.. Gillian
said: cit seems futile for me to
attempt to tell you the good
things which are, not at long Pc
RODS, but daily being opened up
in the Buffalo camp. Every time
a man does any development work
where he has anything like show
ing it improves with depth, and
especially is this true in the Sec
ton known as Mineral Hill.
"Look at all the properties that
have been discovered there and see
If the leads do not continue I'M
brokenly for Is, 600 feet, and then
tell me what camp in the North
west can show veins like that.
"FOr example take the Fortune
lead, which is the mother of them
all. The surface showing was so
satisfactory that the Buffalo Hump
Development Co. Immediately
commenced to develop the prop
erty, by two tunnels and here are
the assays therefrom." Mr.. Gill
liam then produced his assay GER
tificates which he placed before the
Press scribe, and one can hardly
do justice to the subject when it is
said that they are wonderful. Mr.
Gillian continues: Gas you read
lily perceive we are getting all the
way from $75 to 1898; and this is
not from a picked sample either,
but taken directly in the face of
the drift right across the breast.
The lead is 81 feet wide and we
have run 20 feet in this kind of
rock. Now this is in the upper
tunnel, where we get depth of
about 30 feet. We have a splen-
did tunnel site, making almost J
foot for ] foot. In the lower tun-
mel we will have to run 80 feet be-
fore we strike the lead, and then
we will strike it at about It's feet
of depth. We find every indica-
ton that we will have the same
high values in the lower tunnel as
we do in the upper, as we are get
ting infinitely better returns from
the floor of the upper tunnel than
we do from the ceiling, and the
property gives every indication of
improvement with depth. There
is one thing about it which is
most gratifying-it pans free gold
and is essentially free milling
proposition.
"We propose to keep on develop
ing the property as far as we can.
You see we are terribly handicap
ped by not being able to get ma
chinery over the present roads, it |
being a hard matter to even get
common necessities, such as food |
products, but as Rudyard Kipling
says, that is another story" and
! will come to the question Of roads
later. You see that we are in a
position to advance immediate
work on our properties as we have
s12,5OO in the treasury, which is to
be devoted to development ex-
clusively, and as the Buffalo Hump
Development Co. is an assessable
company we can, when the treas
ury is depleted, levy an ASSESS
ment, but this cannot occur now
in all probability since we have
this magnificent chute of ore in
sight, for that is shipping rock it,
self.
"NOw as to the question of roads
to the Hump, so much has been
said by men who are better able to
draw conclusions than myself that
it would only seem like repeating
their statements, but this will
say: that the people of Grangeville
are only consulting their own in
terests to join the mining commu-
nifty in Buffalo in putting in road
over which it will be possible, not
alone to haul merchandise, but ma
chinery and ore. l have heard it
estimated that such road could
be built for $4,000, but l believe
that that estimate is too sanguine
and an impossibility. This / will
say however, that on behalf of nv
people | will guarantee that thew
will do as much as any firm or
corporation in the Hump or else.
where towards the building of this
road, but it must be good, sub
stantial road, not a jack rabbit trail.
i think that this iS oil oouo