Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-06-29
LIVELY BUFFALO HUMP,
The Big Syndicate Means Business
Other Signs Of ACtiVity---An
Early Season.

Inc season Is at least one month
earlier than last year. Besides
the pack trains which continue to
arrive daily loaded with merchan-
disc for Frank Brown & Co.. there
arc numerous outfits coming and
going, the proprietors Of which
sell eggs, butter, vegetables and
meats 10 prospectors and campers
at the Hump and along the diff
crent routes. The campis proving
II veritablc boon to Camas Prairie
farmers. The growth of vegetation
n. 'his altitude is simply wonder
tul. Less than two weeks ago the
undulating section around Buffalo
Hump was covered with snow,
while today half hundred or
more horses are reveling in rich
bunch grass. There is more or less
activity now in each of the four
Buffalo Hump towns. Concord
is rather quiet, but we are told that
in Il short time the Boston, b uifalo-
Idaho Company will be making
the great ST. Louis and their other
valuable properties hum. Mr..
Turner is now on the ground
making thorough examination
and getting things in shape for
the instalment Of machinery, which
will be placed as soon as the wagon
road is completed. The Jumbo,
which lies beyond the Concord
about two miles, already has more
ore blocked out than any other mine
in the camp with perhaps the
exception of the Big Buffalo, and
before fall will be placed in the list
of actual producers. If the Jumbo
mine does not change hands the
present owners propose to make
big shipments of the high grade
ore to outside points before placing
a mill on the property.
Another property tributary to
Concord is that owned by the
Spokane-Buifalo Hump Gold Min.
ing Co., of which Cyrus Happy, oil
Spokane, is president and d.
Stussi is general manager. Mr.
Stussi has been here now for more
than a year steadily working thi,
valuable group which comprises
the Spokane, Baby and Kodak
He is driving three working tun.
nels on the Spokane and in thil
claim alone has accomplished
nearly 400 feet of work. In No
. tunnel the ledge shows from q
to 23 feet in width. In No.
tunnel they are in 135 feet will
a vertical depth of nearly 100 fee
and are expecting to tap the ledge
any day. Excellent values have
been obtained from this propert,
and Mr.. Stussi will leave for Spok
! ane shortly to order a mill ant
cyanide plant which will be il
operation before the season is vel
spent.
Down at Buffalo which lies be
tween the Hump and Concord, an,
where the first postoffice was estab
; lished by Mr.. Henley, mining
matters are picking up consider
ably. A contract has just been lie
g to continue work on the Fortune
owned by Norman & Cameron ant
which is reputed to be one of tn
richest prospects in the country
, The Monte Criso, St. Paul and
dozen or more other valuable claim
will be worked near here thi
summer. The big water powe
just below here, on Snake creek
will be developed and powerful
/, electric plant established for tn
purpose of furnishing power fo
the different mines. Loring
0 Lang, of Spokane, are the prim
. movers in this enterprise, AM
their interests are being represen,
2 ed here by Lou McAtee.
:. Here at the Hump everything
going with dash and spirit; true
}, IS the town site. owners are ne
Y exerting much energy in the wa
of fixing up things, and the war
n of a street commissioner is badl
e felt; yet tho town does not hay
the same circus appearance it ha
last year, as many of the big ten
], have given way to commodiou
= wooden structures. All ne
comers to these parts first pa
:, their respects to the Hump, Il
\. pride of which is the Big Buffa
y dump, which looms up fe
hundred yards east of the tow
le The saloons are running full bla
a and the "Humpers'' smile bland
r. as the pack trains and weal
pedestrians hle up their ma
a. thoroughfare.
w However while these three lit
burgs are enjoying unusual pre-
perity, the bright particular st
es around which everything el
! a in the Hump district reyoives tod
is Laketown. Here the Buffa
Hump syndicate is hewing toy
cut Of the forest, and here
- many moons to come will there
". a bee hive Of human industl
ed Laketown is situated in the ca
- = yon little over a mile below
ma, m Big Buffalo; the waters Of |
creek, in honor Of which the to
A. is nannd, eventually reaching
Clearwater. In fact it lies just
- the slope Of the big divide VIII