Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-08-18
D0|NGS At BUFFALO HUMP.
Manager D. I. Davis Reports Five Feet
Of Orc on The Rlborton.

Davld i. laws, superintendent
Of the Elberton, Broadway and
Broadwater mines, is in Grange
vile. Mr.. Davis has always had
the reputation of being one of the
most careful and conservative min
ing operators in the Northwest.
To q PRESS reporter Mr.. Davis said
"People who have not been in the
Hump since the snow LETT cannot
appreciate the vast changes which
have taken place there. There is
hardly q property of any note which
is not working. On Monday they
made q good strike on the st. Louis
and it is pretty ore and lots Of it,
how much I am not prepared to
say. Mike Sweeney has placed a
large force Of men at work on the
Buffalo Hump Fraction, situated
between the Merrimac and Orc
Elmo properties. He has also put
men to work on the Buffalo Bull,
the north extension of the Big
Buffalo. In answer to the query
made by the PREss man a. to what
they were doing on the Elberton,
Mr.. Davis said: II do not know
whether I wish to talk much about
our properties until I have com.
municated with the company, for
the reason that they should have
the good news first, but this l will
say, that ON the Elberton we are
driving tunnel and are ut present
in 60 feet, and have tapped the
vein and are getting assays aver.
aging $7S. We did not anticipate
that we would tap the vein until
we had gone at least 100 feet, but
you see we have an excellent tun.
mel site and we gain more than foot
for foot. So far we find that the
vein is six feet wide, but it would
be hard for me to say what is the
exact width of the ledge, as we
have not got our other wall yet,
but six feet we now have.
Son the Broadwater and Broad.
way, which are situated between
the Crackef9ack and Winslow
mines, we have a fairly large force
Of men and will employ more in
the near future, ~ I expect to take
some men in with me. On these
two properties, which we intend
to work together, we propose to
sink 20 feet more-we are down
now 40 feet-and then run q tun.
mel and tap the vein at about 100
feet. aa
"We have now fully 60 tons OF
ore on the dump, which will assay
from $50 to $67 per ton. The ledge
is yet uncovered for fully 40 feet
and is from seven to nine feet wide,
and we have FIVE feet Of solid ore,
which is a heavy iron sulphide
carrying gold only. The foot wall
is granite schist, and the hanging
wall granite"
Mr.. Davis then commenced to
talk on general matters, and told
US the news from the Hump. He
said: eve had q splendid meeting
at the Concord on Sunday, to as.
certain what we would do relative
to the mineral exhibit at the Spo.
kane Fruit fair. 1t was decided
to appoint James McCaffrey to rep
resent the south end Of the Robbins
Mining district and the Mallick
district, James P. Turner for the
central portion of the Robbins dis
trict, and Fl. d. Richardson for
the northern portion of the camp.
We also made financial arrange
ments 80 that all matters might be
represented as becomes the great
est mining camp in the Northwest.
We accepted Messrs. Turner and
Frank Browns offer for free trans
portation for all mineral specimens,
to be shipped to the exhibit. It
was an enthusiastic meeting''.