Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-07-13
THE SYNDICATE OPERATIONS
Great Activity to Get Under Cover Be.
fore Snow Flies.

placed on the 100 foot level much
better headway is being made in
the Big Buffalo shaft. The char
ter Of ore does not seem to change.
it being pure sulphide, partly
free and partly concentrating,
and still maintaining the
same high values. Three shifts
are being worked with as many
men as can be used to advantage.
The Syndicate people are rushing
every department Of their work
and Supt. Stevens is the busiest
man in camp. The read from
Lake Town to the Hump will be
completed in three or four days,
and a large force is at work on the
other side OF Lake Town building
the Badger road, which will be
completed in about three weeks
The Syndicate hotel at Lake Town
is being rushed to completion and
will he thrown open to the public
in about a week. The work is
progressing rapidly, too, on the
hospital, which will be under the
charge Of DIR. Strathy. The foun-
dation for the big mill has been
laid and the building will soon take
form. The work of cutting ont the
pipe line is we'll under way, the
distance from the foot Of Crystal
Lake to the mill being 25OO feet.
A Pelton wheel will be installed
for the running Of the mill. 1t
will develop $50 horsepower with
a 6OO-foot head. A force of men
will be placed on the Vesuvius i'm
mediately and the three-compart-
ment shaft will be sunk to the first
level in short time. There art
no idle men in camp, in fact thu
Syndicate has been Handicapped
by the scarcity OF men and is still
in need of large force Of carpen
ters. Good miners also are il
demand.
Work has started up again OF
the St. Louis, and the shaft is nov
down 1875 feet, and by the way
in high grade ore. A 7O-foo
drift has been run from the 6c-foo
level, and l25-foot drift on tn
. ! l2O-foot level. James Turner
. manager of the Boston Buffalo
1 Idaho company states that the ST
Louis is showing very satisfactol
ily, and that he will erect machi
merry on the property just as 500
as the wagon road is completed in
10 the camp. He also inform
your correspondent that his com
pany expects to pushsdevelopmen
work this season on all their prop
critics in Buffalo Hump.
d. Stussi, manager of the Spo
kane and Buffalo Hump MIMI
and Development company, lei
! last evening for Spokane. He ha
been pushing development wor
assidiously for a year on the Spc
kane group. One of the. claims
the Pansey, has been opened Il
by three tunnels, and large or
body developed. Mr.. Stussi ha
gone to Spokane to consult wit
his principals in regard to furthe
development and placing mach
merry.
!, L. j. McAtee, who is acting her
!. for Loring & Crane, and VIII
, has also been looking after til
Norman & Cameron interests th
Il spring, starts for Spokane toda
c and will doubtless have interestin
J, news for the people Of the distri'
Il upon his return.
A contract has been let an
work begun on the Fortune, owne
a by the Buffalo Hump Developmel
q Co.
Mr.. Wadham, of Spokane,
working a force of men on th
d properties of the American Go
le Mining Co., near Crystal lake.
1t An important strike has bee
p reported from the Crooked cree
section, south OF Buffalo Hump.
v More than 200 pack horses a
n now employed on the road betwe'
" Bnffalo Hump and Grangeville.
er Buffalo Hump, July 3, 1900.