Show I Buffalo Hump Purchase A telegram received In the city by Mr V 1C Travis yesterday verifies time report hat the Big Buffalo gioup of goldbearing Halms at Buffalo Hump Idaho has been finally purchased pur-chased by Chavlen Sweeny of Spokane Iho owners and those who wcic con leslhvg their title having all united In the conveyance The Big Buffalo group has been sought by HOI a i few among them Cant De La Mar who made an offer of 500000 for 11 Mr Sweeny went him 70000 better however made a payment of 21000 and expended 50000 In the further opening up of the ground Then contentions between those in possession and the original owners arose and in the litigation that followed Mr Sweeny was driven off Recently peace was patched up and the contestants uniting In the conveyance convey-ance the trade was closed In the rte I velopmont of the group a shaft has been put to a depth of 70 feet and from this point the vein has been followed fol-lowed 350 feet with crosscuts at intervals In-tervals of fifteen feel Mr Travis who has watched the progress of de i velopments very closely says that I i the vein is no less than fortytwo feet wide and that sixtytwo samples recently re-cently showed in average of 1870 in gold per ton Energetic work will now continue and the erection of a mill will no doubt follow the present season sea-son |