Show GOLD MINES AT JARBIDGE CUTS 30 ORE IN NEW GROUND development to the southeast in the elboro mines at jarbidge harbidge Jar bidge has opened an entirely new area at a depth of work has hitherto been done feet in which no exploratory says an idaho correspondent of the nevada mining press the drift passed through a broken formation for considerable distance and then struck an which has been followed for feet for t this his entire length the drift has been in ore which is said to average e 30 per ton in in g gold across five feet and the face is still in ore the elboro mines company a subsidiary of yukon gold which owns 60 per cent of the stock has the most complete cyanide mill ever built in the west designed for tons per day the mill handles an average of tons and makes a recovery of 98 per cent of the assay value of the ore the company is capitalized for par value 5 per share and all the stock is issued values are practically all y all in I 1 gold the yukon gold company of which el koro mines is a subsidiary is controlled by the duggen heims the company owns 75 lode claims including the long hike starlight and 0 K groups bluster buys mill the bluster con coil two and a half miles south of jar bidge has bought the mill at the mine and is moving the machinery to the property as an addition to the 10 stamp mill previously installed the bluster is considered one of the good properties of the jarbidge harbidge Jar bidge district and has been extensively developed it is in the older rhyolite gold ore occurring in veins four to seven feet wide assaying 6 10 to 40 a ton it is claimed that the mine contains tons of 12 mill ore cyanide tanks for le leaching achin were added to the original 6 mill equipment T B beadle is president and manager I 1 frank benan vice president an and d george winkler one of the locators of the townsite of goldfield is secretary rogerson idaho shipping point although 6 jarbidge harbidge Jar bidge 6 is in elko count county y nevada the bu business sl of the camp is is transacted at rogerson idaho fifty miles to the north and stages run three times a week between the camp and rogerson bullion is shipped by way of the idaho city and supplies are hauled in from that point the terminus of a branch of the oregon short line which is to be extended soon to contact the copper camp in elko county and on to wells nev where it will connect with the southern pacific and western pacific roads deflection of travel from jarbidge harbidge Jar bidge to rogerson is due to the topography of the country which is rugged on the south there is a good wagon road connection with the deeth charleston road but it is closed during the winter months by deep snows about all nevada 6 gets from the camp in revenue is the tax on net bullion cretu returns ans an electric power line supplies the power for the mines and mills and light for the camp camp discovered in 1909 the discovery that led to the founding of jarbidge harbidge Jar bidge was made by D A bourne in 1909 although rich float was jound found in 1904 by a sheep tender named bourne started prospecting in the foothill mesa country about nine miles down the jarbidge harbidge Jar bidge river and slowly ascended the stream until he found the bold outcrop of the bourne mine the and buster mines were next located then the pick and shovel the last named were located by john escalon a lone prospector who hiked in from charleston nev alone the news of a gold discovery quickly got abroad and by october 50 men had arrived in camp and spent the winter there early in 1910 says a united states geological survey bulletin the bluster bui bunker aker hill ozark and other groups were located and prospected with good results exaggerated ag b reports reached the outside world during the winter of great bodies of rich ore bein being 6 found and in M march arch and april there was a stampede from nevada and the population increased to 1500 A city of tents sprang up extending for three miles along the jarbidge harbidge Jar bidge river although the ground was covered with 15 to 20 feet of snow the camp of jarbidge harbidge Jar bidge is on the banks of the jarbidge harbidge Jar bidge river which heads in the southern part of the district on the upper north slope of the divide and flows north northwest erly fed by numerous smaller streams to a confluence with the bruneau river about 24 miles north of the nevada idaho state line there is plenty of timber suitable for mine purposes |