Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-03-17

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acres of Camas prairie, and the
rush for its wealth is, already on
The miners III rhoIssee gt0'rrd:ssttTeaEec
hills may eat all that the farmers O
the prairie can produce, apd may
continue to do SO even after marked
accessions to the ranks of the .tillers
of the soil. Still the volume Of
trade with the outside world must
swell.
| Still the gold will roll out and
merchandise and supplies of all
kinds will roll in. People will go
there to get rich, to gain health and
happiness. 1t may be expected, al
so, that oil kinds of people will go
there, A quick growth is coming,
subject to readjustment as develop
ment may progress. Nervous ac-
tivity will succeed the years of plac-
bid and phlegmatic comfort now clos
ing. And out of it all, it is to be
hoped, higher civilization will
come and the world will be profted.
From the Buffalo Hump mining
strike great reports are coming
Conservative experts of sound judg-
ment who have made personal in
vestigation of premises describe
them in phrases that have become
characteristic of the boomer. There
can be TO doubt of the richness of
the strike; the only question is as to
its extent. The iedgelhas been tax.
.er- along a course Of about three
miles of its length. Though its
value has been proved in only a
few. cases, there are plenty of evil
dences usual regarded reliable that
this is one of the most notable min
eral discoveries of the west.
Men are hocking in and taking
claims and preparing to work them.
Some are making good wages
through the winter by pounding
out the free gold in hand mortars.
The first three claims located are
reported to have been sold for $500
600, after searching examination
by the parties who put up the mon
ey, and there sppears, no lack of
buyers for other claims on the ledge.
The elevation which gives its
name to the new mining district,
Buffalo Humps reaches the altitude
of $500 feet above the sea! The
view from the stage road to the
west is the one in which it SO strik-
ingly resembles the hump of buff
falo. The hump itself is only about
800 feet tall, and is about half
mile long north and south; though
it rises from an elevation of 5000
feet, representing the back of the
buffalo, which IS some three miles
north and south. The mines are
not on the Hump at all.
They lie just to the eastward of
it, and the claims have been staked
out occupying a tract perhaps three
quarters Of mile wide and three
miles long. The easiest way in is
by way of Elk city and up Crooked
creek to Badger, thus coming to the
Buffalo Hump mines from the east.
To go west from the mines to the
stage road at Florence would take
one through a very rough country.
A dozen miles south of the mines
is sheer drop of 5000 feet to the
Salmon river. Even people with
the prosaic souls of prospectors
never weary of describing the scenic
splendor of the country.
Looking from Buffalo Hump, the
ragged heads of the Seven Devils
tear the western sky, apparently SO
near that rife ball would carry
and kill bear on tho brown crags. |
A wealth of mountain scenery
stretches in all directions. But the
most pleasing sight of all is the
peaceful valley, where the checker
ed fields roll away, showing the
different hued crops, interspersed
with groyesj and cattle ranges.
There are several points Of vantage.
from which bird's-eye view of the
smiling prairie is had. Labor and
time will bling the development of
which that country is capable.
Results may be fastened or re-
tarded by incidental agencies or in
fuences, but the resources are too
valuable and diverse to admit of
or of undue exploitation. |
Trade will pass to and from that
country, and, in The language of a
certain poet of perspicacity, who
wrote many more poetic things, but
none more true,
When trades spry,
The goose hangs high,
And eyerything's hunkey dorey. |
This trade will be worth striving |
for. 1t will be worth an effort on
the part of Portland to get it
1t will also. be worth something
for that inland country to have .ac-
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