The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-02-22
SPOKANE
PEOPLE
Interesting Notes from East
ern Washington.

ern Washington.
Political and Social News Mining
Information = Personals = T h e
Colored Brother Fast Becoming
Prominent in the State.
The Northwest offers boundless
opportunities for those Of limited
means, when there is practical judg-
ment to back it. Mining is legiti-
mate business. 1t makes many rich
and some poor. What business does
not have the same experience? Yet
it requires only a little investigation
to disclose the fact that hundreds of
poor men have become rich through
mining in the Northwest, and par
Iticularly in Idaho Capitalists have
more than doubled their investment
and are satisfied to continue. A
mining man takes the same chances
as a dealer in real estate with the
possibility of quicker and larger re-
turns. Quick return on money in
vested is the wish Of ALL With the
rapidly developing mines contiguous
to Spokane, the intelligent Negro
should industriously apply himself
to seek if possible an interest in
some of the many properties now in
his reach. While several companies
have been foated in this state by Ne
groes, that they have not attained
the degree of success sought or
hoped for can be charged to one
fault, viz, the absence Of a practical
mining man at the helm.
This statement is not made in a
spirit Of criticism. It has been
truthfully said that "a man is Judged
by the company he keeps" 1t is no
more a fact than mining property
lis judged by its promitters.
The Clarence Ray Buffalo Hump
Gold Mining Co., a corporation or
ganized under the laws Of the state
Of Washington, with headquarters at
Spokane, Wash, have acquired the
Roanoke and Revenue claims in the
famous Buffalo Hump gold mining
camp in the central part of the state
of Idaho, and are now working their
properties A blacksmith shop and
bunk house have been completed and
other preliminary work started nee
essary to the intelligent development
of property. The Revenue and
Roanoke are located between the
Cracker Jack and the Jumbo on the
same belt. These two latter proptr-
ties are developed far enoguh to
prove their value and will pay divi-
dends in the near future. The Big
Buffalo, in the same group, sold for
$25O,0O0 when prospect. The Rev
enue and Roanoke have the advan-
tage of other properties, having a
natural tunnel site, hence can be de-
veloped at less cost than the others.
Aside from being fortunate in ac-
Iqmring this property in the heart Of
the gold belt, they have, if possible,
been more fortunate in securing
their superintendent and manager,
Thomas F. Parks, an old, experience
ed and practical miner, who has
operated through Montana and Col
oradO, especially Cripple Creek,
where he was very successful. It is
said that in the palmy days Of Grip
Iple Creek that it required five figures
in dollars to compute his worldly
possessions, and at present, it is said,
has sufficient for oneself. The fol-
lowing gentlemen on the directorate
/ is a sufficient guarantee that all
moneys acquired from sales of stock
twill be honestly and intelIigently ex-
pended in making a mine Of the
Revenue and Roanoke: VIM. Hop
kins, president prop. Georgia meat
market); Calvin Surrey, vice presi-
dent (chef Warwick grilD; George
f, Anderson, secretary prop. Acme
coffee house,; Chas. S. Barron, assis-
tant secretary prop. X-Ray Print.
ing Coz; Vim. Evans, treasurer. Di
rectors-F. Laurence Wilson, Free
Sharp, H. B. Smith, Richard White