Show LATEST JARBIDGE NEWS that the public has an exaggerated idea of the difficulties attending getting into jarbidge harbidge Jar bidge and performing work when there is the contention of C G morgan who arrived at salt lake on the direct from the new gold camp and was interviewed by a herald republican reporter while snow is three and four feet deep in the gullies and narrow canyons relatively little is encountered on the way he said and the depth of snow on the level in the camp itself is not great some portions of the hills are bare beginning on the a daily stage line with four relays of horses is operated from buhl sixteen miles south of twin falls on the Minn adoka southwestern railroad to rim rock which is twelve miles from jar bidge the distance from buhl to rim rock is ninety miles and the distance is covered by the stage in twelve and one half hours the fare is 8 from rim rock into the camp only pack animals are used and the charge for both freight and passengers is five cents a pound the work of constructing a wagon road from twin falls to jarbidge harbidge Jar bidge one over which heavy freight can be hauled the entire distance has already been undertaken by the twin falls commercial club which has raised of the sum required for that purpose on the way out from the camp mr morgan says he met fifty eight outfits going in and he declares that the population of the camp when he was there could not have been less than many people are at twin falls and buhl waiting to go in stores and lodging houses are now going into the camp and a store has been established at three creek which is twelve miles northeast of rim rock so that the difficulty of getting supplies will from this time on be greatly lessened all tell same story As to the merits of the camp everyone appears to be willing to take a chance on that said mr morgan the original discovery is certainly the greatest surface showing I 1 have ever seen and the biame thing is said by everyone who has seen it it is a forty foot ledge averaging 11 a ton in gold clear across with a five foot streak which runs a ton at irregular intervals the outcropping cropping out rises high above the surface of the country rock and the vein has been traced a distance of six miles on its strike as it cuts through the country in the bourne group three cuts in widely separated places all show the ore going down strikes of the high grade ore have been made on six properties on the same ledge aside from the original bourne group mr morgan and twin falls associates own the log cabin group of claims and mr morgan is likewise owner of the jar bi bidge dge townsite I 1 |