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Show II JAMIE CAMP I OF POSSIBILITIES i . I' ' Recent Arrival From District Tells of Conditions I : There. I 1 i I i FIRST MACHINERY I A FROM SALT LAKE H H i ;! ' I ,! j. Prospectors Make Locations in I 1 J1 Ignorance of What They j i 'j May Get. H ! C. G. Winter, one of the first of the I i prospectors to enter the ncwly-dlscov-P ; f orcd sold fields in the Jarhldge district. 1 1 5 northern Xovada, nnd one of ' the last I , !J men out, was a. visitor In Salt Lake on I' ' 4 Thursday, he having been here for the I 5 purpose of purchasing machinery for the I development of properties In which he Is I ' Interested In the new country. Mr- Win- ( I ' ter represents the Twin Falls-Jarbldge ! I Jt company. Interested In which arc a num-L num-L ' . ler of local mining men, and which has I. '. the control of the Escalon properties. , , among the first locations In the district. I J "Our company Is going to have the first. : I ; ; equipment of machinery In Hi" dls- , trlct." said Mr. Winter, In spcaKMng ot L the camp, "and we are going to blow . ' the first whistle ever blown In tho camp. 'T and It will be a Salt Lake whlstlo at : that." -. Among other caulpmonl. purchased by Mr. Winter In this city was a 20-horsc- j power hoist, a machine capable of carry- y Ing a load from a 300-foot shaft, and , . this outfit will he sent Into the Jarhldge n camp as soon as possible. Mr. Winter t left In the afternoon for Jarhldge and I . will at once construct a rough sled, for the purpose of hauling the machinery -over the snow roads from Twin Falls to the mines. g Mr. Winter states that the Jarhldge B ( country Is becoming populated just as q rapidly as men can get In. "On my way n out." said he, "I passed fifty-seven head jj of pack-horsos and twenty-two men. and q this, travel Is being kept up continuously, r ' TV.,.-,. inn I.. V: I HI'' camp T should say, and the big rush I" will be made when . !hc roads become I more open. There arc no real houses in H the camp yet, though two cabins have been hastily erected. Tho remainder of the 'town' consists of tents, which arc ' also used for sheltering the animals. It r Is out of the question to attempt to tako T lumber Into the district at present, al- . though -when the plans .for the bettcr-P bettcr-P ment of the roads, now l)olng consld- ercd bytho Twin Falls Commercial club, V are completed, traffic will bo made pos- slblc. There Is from two to twenty feet Hv of snow in tho country at present, and ' prospecting Is almost Impossible. The only ones who can do any work arc those who located early in the fall and ' know Just where 'they're at.' The others, for the most part arc Just making their locations and taking chances on what U they may get. I Biggest Ever. "One cannot appear to lie conserva- tlvc." continued Mr. "Winter, "and talk L about the Jarhldge country, for it Is one of such possibilities ns seems to shame ' th truth. It Is so large. In fact. Its ledges are so enormous and Its values '. so great, that Its very slzo Is tho ren- ' son for Its never having been found bo-H bo-H fore. The values are found In the ledges I iL,lrtv fect above Ihe surface, running , S22.80 In gold. As In all porphyrltlc- ' rhyolltc formations, values can bo found I, running all tho way from 20 cents to ' ?20.000. "The water power to be obtained from H the Jarhldge and Wllklns creeks, as 1 1, shown by the government reports, " amounts to 21.000 horsepower, and this ' is t the rront door of the district, as I are also the vast stretches of splendid ,! timhrr. The natural resources to be found In Hie district arc a point greatly E i In Its favor. "I ,arn satisfied that, it will be possible I -i -to mine and mill the ores of the district H j 31 a cost of not more thnn $1.25 per hi ,ton' when Ihe properties arc In produc-B4I produc-B4I mg shape, the tests so far made on the u . product showing It to be a strlcllv n straight-milling proposition. Twin Falls I , people now have a crew of surveyors on M fnt road doing the preliminary cnglneer- Ing for the new highway Into the camp, and by the time this work Is completed there will be plenty of ore ready to Haul - out of the district. T am anxious to got r Dac,k wm my machinery before tho spring thaws set in. as I would rather I 5a chances on the snow roads and J, laTer" mU(1, Whlch wlU come Plan Work. ,!! Mr- tinier and associates have made arrangements with tho original locators i of the Escalon property for the devel- j '!! ?,?mcJt ,f lM? Prospect, and It is on 1 i u Escalon claims that the new ma-' i chlnery will be placed. It Is the lnton-' lnton-' ,tlon sink a shaft along the vein and to prospect to determine the true extent ( of the property's wealth. iUnyuJil!l 'ocallons so far made in ( t- nlin, dIstrlct will develop into million- ( dollar mines. In Mr Winter's opinion. If r the ledges of the section average ( ' throughout not abovo $10 In gold. v lilcli I he Is satisfied they will do. 1 Quite a rivalry exists between Hiffa f ' ,ent Idaho towns, among Kin I Bn I' a 'C?onSJ,r!?'' HonmeTand i H. L t0 wl,,tn "lmirgot the bulk of r ; the bus ness promised i,v the .TarbMce f ! camp, though so far Twin Falls Veems i t tohnv made the best progress to ?hs : . ' i |