Show THE BUFFALO HUMP COUNTRY Time true story of the discovery ot Sold In the Buffalo Hump country has never been told 1 propose to narrate the plain facts of the discovery and location as they came out In court in the trial of tho case of Rice et al vs Rigley et al In the District court at Orangevllle last spring This was a grubstake suit brought by Klce et al against Rlgley et al for An individual ernehalf of the properly Rice et al won the suit having aa their counsel lion Albert Allen of Spokane and lion vie Uierbowcr of GraiiRevllle The facts disclosed at the trIal showed that Perry Mallory J E Berryman and six others camped on Buffalo Hump In time latter part of July IMS In the morn Ins before leavlpg camp Perry Mallory knocked off some rock from a project ing ledge and took It with Him When time parly reached Florence Mallory horned the rock lie took f om i the ledge and found It rich In sold lie there met two tramp prospectors B R Rlgicy and C II Robblns and told them of his discovery and offerer them a partnership partner-ship if they would go back and locate the ledge as Mallory was obliged to make a hasty trip into Oregon These three persons being poor found It no CMHury to procure a grubstake and Jako Rico of Florence furnished an en tire ouifit for the party Then Mallory went halfway with Rlgley and Rob bums and before parting with them dcciv a immmmp to guide thm strnlelH to time Buffalo Hump Rlgley and Rob bins easily found the ledge from which Mallory about a week before had locked off the rock Then Rigley and Robblns located the Big Buffalo Merit mae and Ore Flno the Ihrce claims known as time Buffalo HUmp These claims weru located by I Rlgley and Robbins Rob-bins in their own names eornpklely Irr norlng both Rice and Mallory AH T stated at the outset Ruo and Mallory brought suit and tho court promptly decided In their favor This is the true stoiy of time dHfuvery and location oC the Buffalo Hump Some 200 claims wore located In limo Buffalo Hump district In the two months Punt elapsed from the first discovery dis-covery till snow came and prevented further prospecting And when It Is considered that the ground had to he blasted trorn the voiy start and time Idaho laws require a tenfoot hole on each loitiUon within sixty days of din coeiy there nmust have JCOir some live 13 imtimitliimg Time fotmiatloim ln this dispel is grim ite nimist imyelmltc und porpimyr3 the plimmcliai ledges Occurring at time con taPiR Jhe FTraI character of the ore Is an n enlcal HUlphlde carrying bo sides gold and Blvw tt small poicemmtage of head nmmd traces of copper 1mm iiiaees the Ome is Oxidized ana pans Homo tiOO rod notably on the Cracker Jack Santa Rosa Ehiabethm u Yankee Boy amid one ot Iwo other S IV claim8 ln tIme novtti crmd of time camp ° n tIme slope tO thor Cleanvate hiromn tests madp ° c thc Big Buffalo ore the orIKlial dlHcovcry M would iippoar thai poujuoiurutliig would lie HID proper iroalmont of the ore Three tons nf selected ore from the discovery almft in thin clnim inlllnil by the AImmmer company of Florence a Huntlngtor mill and Wlllley table gavo returns Of BO per ton on the plates and about 3 per cent concenlrales that assiyei 3000 per ton The Big Buffalo ledge is from thirl to thirtysix feet wide and crops from two to six feet above the ground for a distance of 300 feet Samples from the surface of the ledge gave returns aa follows fol-lows Average of twentyfour feet 3181 average of nine feet 15817 average of three feet 71217 The Jumbo about three miles southeast south-east from the claim Just described is the only property In the camp limit hits had any amount of development vorl done on it Hero there has been a tunnel tun-nel run on the lead 110 foot gaining a vertical depth of about 300 feet ant crosscut eight feet with no wall This is ail ore running from 12 to 5757 per ion which pans free and could be saved ro a high percentage with stamps and concentrator On a ledge between time Jumbo and Big Buffalo that can be traced without a break through ten claims are the Monte Crisslo Eldorado St Paul Gem City San Francisco Ilobsona Choice Last Chance St Louis Denver and Canyon This ledge shows some free gold and will average ton feet of 23 ore on all the claims where It has been thoroughly sampled North of the Jumbo on the same lead are the Baby Jack Wood Golden Shield Shamrock and Chief Joseph all With nearly equal showings There is the greatest number of promIsing prom-Ising prospects In this district that we have ever seen in so young a camp The extent of the mineral zone Is yet to be determined H is safe lo say however that It Is at least six miles wide discoveries having been made for that distance and extends north and south from the south fork of Clearwater Clear-water to the Salmon Within the past few weeks ledges have been discovered where they arc cut by the Salmon having hav-ing the same general characteristics and In the same formation as those at the Hump twelve miles distant It is going to take a vast amount oC capital to open up and develop this new country but the ore bodies will Justify the outlay With railroad transportation and the present outlook Is very favorable this Isolated section will come to the front and develop Into one of the great min eralproducing sections of the West The San Francisco Monte Carlo and Baby Louise were sold last winter to an English syndicate for 83000 ThcvHob sons Choice wan sold lately to Spokane people for a fair sum and many other claims In the camp In fact nearly all the earlier locations have changed hands for prices ranging from 3000 to 550000 The Dewey Colonel Grubstake Oxford Ox-ford Winslow Lost Chance Buffalo Bull Elberton Lucky Lad Red Cross Colorado Wise Boy and Drumlumon have all had more or less work done on them and are among time promising claims of time camp Up lo December of this year there were 1RO locations of record In time amp This refers lo the Buffalo Hump country proper or the Robbins mining district ns It Is now called The Buffalo Hump country lies In the Center of Idaho county The Hump la 700 feet high It Is drained on the north by the south fork of the Clearwater Clear-water and on time south by the Salmon river At present the nearest railroad Point has been at Le ijston but now the railroad is finished lo Stewart on the learwater This will bring the railroad road within twenty miles of Grange > IIIe which Is the commercial center for the Buffalo Hump region Time facts which furnish the basis of his article may be relied upon for n curacy ns I obtained them from Walter IT Hill Esq the wellknown surveyor and superintendent of the Big Buffalo group While this article has been limited to he Buffalo Hump proper It must be remembered that within a days ride you can reach Florence Warrens Dixie ewsornp or the ClearwiUr well loveloped mining camps and sonic of hem have been producing for years It must be remembered also that the Buffalo Hump mining camp Is scarcely a year old In that brief time mar rebus mineral discoveries have been made the great Camas prairie the fin et body of funning land In HIP world i ias filled up with settlers now towns like Grangeville Stewart Kornlah De mr Cottonwood White Bird and larpster have sprung up wllh a magic growth while the Northern Pacific railroad Is coining down from the north and is finished to withIn sixty miles of he Buffalo Hump and at the same tIme the Pacific Idaho Northern railroad road Is coming up from the south and he whistle of their engines IB already leard in the Seven Devils region |