The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-06-26
BUFFALOHUMP
OPERATOR
BOOSTS
Joe Pelikan, Old Time Miner,
Has Grew Working in
Hump District.
SECURE MACHINERY
States Portland Manufacturers
Should Cultivate Central
Idaho Trade.

Joseph Pelikan, for many years an
active operator in the Buffalo Hump
mining district, and well known per
sonage of this section, while in Port
land last week gave out an inter
view to the Journal regarding the min
ing situation in Central Idaho. Mr.
Pelikan is president of the Genital
Idaho Gold Mines compay. and has had
a crew of men working during all OF
the past winter and is still actively en-
gagged on the company's property in
the Buffalo Hump country Mr. Peli-
kan was in Portland for the purpose
of securing machinery for their prop
erty. The article follows:
." | read all your industrial articles
published in the Saturday Journal"
says Joseph Pelikan of Spokane. land
assure you they interest me even
though | live in a city east of the Cas-
cades and in another state If all news
papers would follow the example of the
Journal in bringing manufacturing in
tereSts to the attention of the public
it seems to me it would not only profit
the industries but the entire COM
munity in which the papers are pub
lishcd. In my opinion the publisher of
lic-spirited citizen. and were | a resi-
dent of your city | certainly would
throw my influence in the direction Of
making the paper an even richer prop
.erty for its owner.
but let me say word about your
manufacturers 1t is my Judgment it
would do them good to stir them up
little. 1t seems to me they are short
.,i,r IN, az 10,
we're My principle financial interests
are centcred in mining for gold in the
buffalo Hump district of Idaho, Il re-
gion of marvellous wealth with scores
of operating properties. vet the Port
land men who make things act a3 if
they never heard of that region.
They do not seek our trade, nor do
they attempt to sell mining machinery
To our people. They appear not to
know that the tenth of the three bill
lion dollars worth Of gold produced in
the United States came from the mines
Of Central Idaho, circling around Buff
falo Hump.
Eighty million dollars were taken
from the Florence placer mines alone,
$61 100000 out Of the Warren district
along the Salmon river II miles west
of Florence. N2a,OOO.OOO; north within
radius of - miles, $25.000, and
south of lis within Il radius of 100
miles. 30.OO0. 600. and many other mil
lions from other camps.
The Hump has an altitude of $500
/ feet and is the peak of sometime
great upheaval which shot this miner
al up through the bowels of the earth.
| 1t is 20O0 feet hi-har than Butte,
another rich mining section. But ii has
been hampered from lack of suitable
transportation. which is now largely
overcome.
THE SNOW automobile is perfected
and is successful. and the Pittsburg x
Gilmore railroad. NOW terminating ut
Salmon City. is surveyed through the
Hump district. and when completed
will effect saving of 300 miles be
tween Chicago and Portland. \ road
has been completed and auto trucks are
now solving the transportation
Question. From every angle, at present
extreme activity is in evidence in Cen
tral Idaho, and in my judgement il is
n region Portland jobbers and manu-
facturers would do well To cultivate
1t is reached by way of Grangeyille.'