Show BOURNE TALKS OF JARBIDGE STRIKE Expects His Figures to Be Doubled but Data Is Interesting I know the tho figures are almost In Incredible Incredible credible D A Bourne discoverer or oC Jarbidge Is I quoted by a Los Angeles newspaper as having said sald when dis discussing discussing cussing his great find but as I have no stock to sell I must endure being regarded a Munchausen Assays have gone as high as a ton the low lowest lowest est beng Before I had a hole ten feet teet deep In the property which Is of oC porphyry and rhyolite for formation formation mation I was offered for my claim Then I was gWen given a chance to sell shares for But Butas as there Is ore valued at In sight I am not selling Bourne was Justified In anticipating that his statements would be Conservative mining men who before the snow fell last tall all spent several Weeks prospecting In the camp assert the Bourne property has an un unusual usual surface showing as have a num number her ber of at other properties In the camp but none ot of them has said anything about or even in sight It dOES seem that Bourne might have ctt down his estimate a afew few millions without Injuring the prospects of the camp Contrary to the rule by which sen sensational gold finds suddenly loft left the finders from the direst poverty to at af Bourne It Is said Is a pros prosperous prosperous mining expert whose home Is at Boise Ida With Mrs Bourne he Is spending the winter In southern Call fornia It was In November IOS 1008 he relates that he and his wife were returning home borne overland from southern Nevada when they reached the banks of oC a river called Jarbidge meaning devil Pleased with its scenery and aud Its fish they followed it to a nine miles from the Idaho line Une They suddenly were confronted by bya IL a bluff of great height and with gold goldin in every rock As he had heard of the Lost Sheepherders mute ever sin since co lie 18 was a boy and knew it was some somewhere somewhere where In that locality Mr Bourne In Instantly Instantly recognized their discovery as the property so 80 lang sought by miners Ends Search of Years This old mine has been the goal ot of gold hunters for years ears said Bourne A quarter of oC a century ago a driver employed by Scott Hanks a stage outfit took some ore from It to his employers It was analyzed and the driver was sought to direct his em employers to the mine only to learn that he be had disappeared years ago a employed by John Pence a sheep owner found a piece ot of rich ore and took It to camp It was not analyzed for tor several weeks and when it was wasand wasand and the assay howd the tn Pence went nearly wild He sent sentor for or the camp tender and was told he had bad suffered a stroke of paralysis and 11 lad ad never spoken since Then large mediums but In 8 sms were spent with vaIn Many prospectors have gone to look for tor the property and have never re returned returned turned perhaps they starved or were killed by the Indians Last fall we found a skeleton on one property on what we call Dead Mans Ians Flat near whee we are a home Near it was an old hovel and a mortar No what people think of a story like this It is true We have Installed a mill Wagon roads are be being beins ins ing built to it and the Union Pacific has begun the tho construction of a line Une Ue It will be one of oC the greatest camps in the world |