Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-30
Double Train Service Be-
tween and Salt Lake
BEGINS NEXT THURSDAY
Will be a Great C0nvenieuce..NOr.
thern Pacific Is Calling At
tention to Buffalo Hump,

General Agent H.. O. Wilson of the Ore
gon Short Line this morning received
Geographic advice from Salt Lake City
to the effect that the double train service
OF his road will go into effect next Thurs
day, and that the schedule would be az
follows:
Train No. 8 will arrive in Butte at 12:45
O'Clock p. IN.
Train No. s will depart from Butte to
Salt Lake City at 4:45 o'clock p. M.
Train No. 10 will leave Butte at 3:45
o'clock a. m.
Since the new management took charge
OF the Short Line much Improvement has
been made, but his proposed double
train service between the two prosperous
terminals of the road-Butte and Salt
Lake City eclipses anything the road has
heretofore done, and will be a great
convenience to it's patrons.
The Northern Pacific has just issued
an illustrated folder descriptive of the
new mining region concerning which
mining operators are very much interest
ed in-the Buffalo Hump country. The
folder contains a well written and inter-
estlng story of the development of that
region and says in part:
1T is generally admitted by all experts
who have seen the Buffalo Hump district
that the surface outcrop is the most re-
markable in extent and value thus far
discovered on the American continent.
Buffalo Hump is one of the landmarks OF
Idaho-one of the gems Of the state
that has been we'll called 'The Gem of the
Mountains" The great sentinel-for all
the world resembling the hump on a but
falo-stands out, eternally covered with
snow, the great compass beacon OF the
district. 1t is the dividing hogback Of the
watersheds Of the Salmon and Clearwater
rivers. The great outcrop of the Big Buff
falo ribs the mountain from 1.:th to
south. It's cold white minerailzed quartz
vein has a width of forty feet and is
many huEdred feet in length, and with
the other great parallel leads which rih
the plateau below the hump, makes it the
most phenomenal outcrop of quartz in
the world. The now famous leads are
within a few hundred feet of the WE'LL
worn trail between Dixie and Florence,
famous in, the early sixties as the high
way between the two principal ~alluvial
gold camps; and today, scattered over
the great outcrops, are vestiges Of civili-
cation in the shape of old tomato cans,
whisky bottles, and the usual mixture of
cast-off cl%othing--the debris of the no.
madic prospector's wanderings and the
story OF his hopes, and his trial and his
tribulations. In these early sixties. how
ever, it was the placer gold that the pros
pectOr toiled for.
1.-The discovery of the Big Buffalo was
made early in August, 1898 n after
making the location the owners came out
and reported their find, and a great rush
ensued into the district. By the time
snow fell there had been about 200 loca-
ions made. Shortly after its discovery
the camp was visited by several we'll
known mining men, including Mr.. S. I.
Silverman, Lane G. Gillian and w. H.
Young, who carefully sampled the prin-
cipal properties, and, acting upon their
reports, one or w Spokane syndicates
secured large holdings in the district. The
De Lamar syndicate made a strong effort
to secure the Big Buffalo. This plum,
however, fell to Mr.. Silverman, who sue
cecded in securing the property, the con-
sideration, on a longtime bond, being
more than half a million dollars"