Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-09-01
MINING NOTES.

The long tunnel of the Review mine,
near Chesaw, Wash, on Myers creek,
has been equipped with 500 feet of air
pipe.
Another section of the Hump has
proved to possess great wealth. Some
or the richest prospects yet uncovered
have been located near the Clearwater
SLOPE
The operations of the Buffalo Hump
syndicate are on so large scale that
the promise OF great future for the
camp is as nearly assured as it we'll
can be.
Both the Magnolia and Little Giant
mills, at Granite, Ore, idle since the
financial reverses that last January
overlook w. l.. Vinson, are soon to be
started up.
The Buffalo Hump Tunnel Company,
which owns IA claims on the Hump and
which is developing them by a long
tunnel, has stopped work until patents
are secured on the claims.
Good showings of free gold ore are
reported from the Clearwater slope,
about four miles north of Buffalo
! Hump. There is considerable placer
ground in the same section.
1t is estimated by those who are sup
posed to know that the Buffalo Hump
Syndicate have expended 100000 in
that district, nearly one-half the sum
in improvements, the rest for purchas-
ing properties.
The Puritan Mines Company, operat-
ing at LOOMS, Palmer Mountain dis
trict, Is grading, blasting out rocks and
otherwise improving the switchback
road running to the saWmill.
An electric tramway is to be run be-
tween Grangeville and Buffalo Hump.
distance of so miles, inside of eight
months, says e. M. Gilpin, prominent
mining man of Buffalo Hump.
The once familiar Lost Cabin mine,
at the head of Fourth of July canyon,
in Wolf Lodge district, about Is miles
west of the principal mines of the
Occur d'Alenes, is to be reOpened.
The belt of country Known as the
lower Nespelum is one of the growing
young mining districts that are little
heard of outside All that outsiders
appear to know of this part of the
South Half is that a mine called the
Rebecea is situated somewhere here
abouts.
The mineral department at the Spo-
kane exposition this fall will eclipse
everything il that line which has ever
been shown in the Inland Empire be-
fore. The management has announced
the complete list of prizes for the min
eral exhibits, which will cover every
thing from precious ores to building
stone and clays.
The richest copper strike yet made
in the Colyille reservation was made
last week on the Comstock claim. The
strike was made on the Comstock near
the Flat Creek camp on Mineral noun
tain. The property is near the Exami-
ner group and in a Rich district, where
several good strikes have been made
within the last few weeks.
The Caswell boys, discoveries Of the
Thunder Mountain district Idaho, have
made the final deposit in the United
States assay Office of gold from their
run this year. The total taken out
by them during the seasons run was
s10,203.57. The actual running time
was 80 hours. They have water only
for few days. But next year they will
be able to make much longer run, as
they have arranged for storing the
stream from the meeting snow. This
placer mining Is simply the sluicing
of the surface of mountain OF ore.
The ore slakes when exposed and they
sluice the same ground over and over
year after year. They have been work.
ing the ground In that way for several
years