Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-06-08
AS BIG AS ANY OF THEM
Van B. D'LaShmutt Talks About the
Future Of Buffalo Hump.

Mr.. Van b. D'Lashmutt, the
well known broker and promoter
arrived from Spokane Monday
evening after spending day in
Lewiston on the way. During the
week he left Grangeville for the
Hump in order to make a thorough
examination of the camp. He has
a practical and straightforward
way of carrying his mining business
to successful issue as was evil
denced in the recent closing of the
Big Buffalo deal. His long expe-
rience in active affairs, mining and
otherwise, in the northwest should
| give his opinions weight and adds
| strength to movements he inaugu-
rat, by virtue of his keen fore
sight.
At this interesting and youthful
stage in the life Of Buffalo Hump
this period when the Camp is taking
form and the anxious watchers are
waiting as it were, for the big
baby to cut it's eye teeth prognosti-
cations are not out of order. As
Mr.. D'Lashmutt said while chat
ting with the FREE Press, the
mining business is looking up now
better than ever before ON the Pa
cific coast. The different districts
including Rossland, the boundary
country, Okanogan and the Colvills
Reservation are developing fully tt
the standard of the most sanguin'
expectation. Now, prospectively
possibly and more than likel.
/, Buffalo Hump camp will develop II
be as large and as important as an.
of them. He has had good dea
of experience with smelters and j
is his opinion that wet ores mus
be found in great abundance with
in the limits of the inland empir
and outside the Occur d'Alene
before we can hope for any grea
: smelter enterprises, as the smeltel
to the east of us want the wet Ores
and when it comes to having bi
competitive smelling poinrs, wi
raise the prices in order to dow
opposition. He thinks it possibl
} that Buffalo Hump may be PR
ducer of genuine smelling or
perhaps too base for concentration
. He don't know what depth tt
II oxidized zone will attain as a rul
o. how much further down concentr'
ton will be the available plaI
nor whether the ore bodies will 2
:, down at all to any material deptl
and as he fatty puts it, no or
else does, either; however he b'
?, lieves as do our most noted geol
,. gists and mining engineers thu
the conditions are exceedingl
;, favourable for the permanency I
-s the Buffalo Hump veins. Speal
ing of transportation Mr.. DLasl
to mutt averred that railroad WI
il strictly essential in the successf
r up building of great mining can
and he expressed the opinion th'
n. Elk City and Buffalo Hump woul
pr be very likely to have q railroad
m the not distant future; however /
4 added, we have got to keep pei
r. ging away; we have got to do SON
o. work for our own information
4. well as for the information of tt
II railroad men. If the camp shou
n prove itself capable of being b
A. producer of base ore we would g
r the railroad in a comparative
short time. OF course Buffa
Hump is only one camp amor
: many ina large district, that T.
=, ~ railroad up south Fork would OPT
40 up. The fact that it is not gOil
a. 10 be a one camp country to
" lends strength to the possibiliti
of early railroad construction
~ | thaf diracti0n