Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-03-13 | Page 34 | Work Has Started in Jarbidge Camp

I i WORK HAS STARTED I I IN JARBIDGE CAMP - Preliminary Development Crc-ates Crc-ates New Enthusiasm Among Miners. H TOWN GROWING FAST, ACCORDING TO REPORT Nine Companies Now Preparing ;. to Start Active Operations. ' '! if .Special to The Tribune. . (j TWIN" FALLS. Ida., March 12. Initial ' . development work on the Bourne lodge In Hf ' 'J the Jarbidge gold camp has disclosed such Hj ';i encouraging condition Inside and out- cropping that nil tho camp Is excited to ', j a greater degrco than at any time since the discovery of tho district. A I the face of the tunnel, which was in idxty-flvc feet j, when latest arrivals horc left tho dis- fl '. trlct, tho average valuo of the ore was ,' $120 per ton. Many streaks curried still higher values. The ore pans freely nt ;;j this point. No hanging or foot wall Is in . 'i sight, and crosscuttlng was begun to dc- Hj termlno tho width of tho ore body. This j.J Information came through J. 11. Walton, Sidney Coburn, C. D. DeWItt and H. D. Bourcy, who arrived herd effervescing . with enthusiasm regarding tho resources !' . of tho district and unhesitatingly ln- j. j dorslng It as moro than over likely to nt least practically sustain some of D. A. fl Bourno's seemingly exaggerated slato- monts regarding tho possibilities of his ;,, properties, as well as others. Walton, who has inado the rounds of all tho Nevada booms, says Jarbldgc's first , .) dovelopment operations aro going to as- A tonish the mining world. DeWItt and Co- I burn, likewise followers of the trails of 1 Novada, as well as many other new gold j discoveries during the last ten years, say thoy wont Into the camp exceedingly skep-tlcal, skep-tlcal, and declare that if they were to 1 i announce the real sowings on tno Pavlaw j and Touro-Arlzona ledge they would be j characterized as crazy men. "Tho only i i thine: for a mining man to do is to go and '.j seo Jarbidge himself," explained DeWitt, fl "for unless ho does he will not bo con- vlnced." Coburn said! "The Bourno Is showing so well that everybody In camp j is In the air with expectations that every ' shot will dlscloso a yot bigger thing. As a result of the work done there evcry-J evcry-J thing la moro encouraging than It was a fl week ago. Camp Is Growing. "There arc at least one thousand in camp now and more are coming every day , from Twin Falls, Elko, up the Bruncuu from Mounlalnhome, and from the west ' side, over in Owyhco county. 1 think that !! we passed at least one hundred outfits during the last two days going In from '1 Twin Falls. At this rate there will bo . more than five thousand people there by I' the Fourth of July. Work is starting on j 5 at least nine different properties. Nino leases have been let on tho Pavlaw and i i Touro-Arlzona ledge, which has Tjecn bonded to Brun and Kinney, and lessees ;ire to be at work on tho 0th of April, j Among these lessees are Spelkcn Bros., L' roccntly 'from Murray, Ida.; Graham m & Co.. Arizona men, backed by Los An- geles capital; McCoy & Connors, who had M i the Kearns leaso in Rawhide: R. W. Mc- Donald, formerly of Fairbanks. Alaska, j and .1- B. Dugan. one of the Jarbidge plo- ( noer?. backed by San Francisco capital. ', No new camp ever existed where everyone jl was so enthusiastic. One day changes jl the appearance of the main street, so ' ' many tents and houses aro going Into ( position for use. There are sanguino ox- n pectatlons expressed by everybody that u without doubt Jarbldgo is going to 'make " j good' to even greater degree than has Hj been believed. . "Tho general impression is that It is going to bo productive of much high-grade i; in Hti-caks and an average grade that will mill at. about 520 per ton throughout the yi district. This will mean that everything , ffl will be milled."