Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-02
The BUFFALO HUMP CAMP
Robert Bell State Inspector of Mines His Report the
Hump District, Gives Much Interesting Information
Relative to the Formation and Value of the Ore.

able advantage for deep tunnel work.
This property carries monster fissure
of gold bearing quartz that is even
wider than the Jumbo, and has one ore
shoot opened to aidepth of one hundred
and forty feet in an upper tunnel,
where it has been drifted on three
hundred feet, with face of rich ore
still going south that is ten feet wide.
The, accompanying cut, "No. d."
"Crackerjack vein, Buffalo Hump"
was taken where the vein is twenty
feet wide and Sampled twelve dollars a
ton. The number of men in this pic
ture spoil the effect and it does not
show the full width of the vein, but will
serve to give an idea of its size.
The ten stamp mill at the Cracker
jack is situated right on the mine high
up on the mountain side and was shut
down on November 1st to save the ex-
cessive cost of hauling cordwood up
hill and hauling the ore down from the
upper tunnel to the mill, pending the
completion of new power plant, where
power will be transmitted electrically
from the company's valuable water
privilege further down the canyon.
The machinery for this new electrical
equipment, also for an air compressor
for the mine was either on the ground
or on the way by December goth; it
was thought it could be put in running
order within sixty days, when the mill
will probably be started again.
Pending the installation of this new
machinery, development at the mine
has been energetically pushed forth; a
new crosscut tunnel was started at the
top of the mill which cut the big vein
at a point over two hundred feet deeper
than the upper tunnel and several
hundred feet further north. Late re-
ports from the mine say that the main
vein in the new tunnel is just as large
and rich as it was above. 1t is now be-
ing developed with drift heading un-
der the upper work, which will add ar
enormous reserve of ore to the already
large bodies exposed. Two smaller
veins of workable size were found ir
the crosscut from which mill runs have
been made that yielded eight to ter
dollars per ton in free gold, and from
the present appearances the Cracker.
, jack will shortly justify its name.
There are quite number of new
, properties being developed in the HUMP
t this winter and large force of mer
: are employed.
| Of these the Atlas, Ajax, and the
t Lucky Lad mines are each equipped
with steam hoisting machinery and are
l sinking in large ore bodies, while the
} Big Buffalo, Del Rio, Colonel, Mothel
t Lode, Buffalo Chief, Wise Boy and hal,
dozen other properties are being
= opened by adit tunnels at considerable
e depth, and in several instances are al
D ready showing large reserves of fin'
Y pay ore.
! The product of the Jumbo mine fo
November, with fourteen stamps drop
n ping, was $11, 500 bullion, and in addi
f ton big yield of rich concentrates.
: seems very probable at this date tina
, the Jumbo and Crackerjack mills com
bined will operate forty stamps throug
= full nine months of 1904, and if the
e do their production should exceed tn
total production of gold in the whole o
e Idaho county during 1908.
, The Buffalo Hump district is ripe fo
: another boom, boom in which legiti
mate and conservative mining investor
e can anticipate rich rewards.
Il II. Uncle