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Show discovered, but. he nays the entire, c-untrjvon the .surface, shown values In gold. In jnmo inntances It bolus lilhl to the nakvl ,ye. It Is a kind of -odpmentary gold that occurs in th. country rock. It Is the opinion of Mr. Tremewnn that ldgn of heavily mineralized min-eralized rock may be discovered, but there are none of them In sight yet. There Is no float to be found In th country, the values being found In all the surface rock. There Is plenty of water and timber tim-ber In the district, hut up to this lime no houses have been built. Tho win ers are living In tenia, by courtesy of the forest service, no townslte having yet ben surveyed and platted. When a town In laid off and platlrfl, it will be. necessary for the forest Horvlce to eliminate that particular section '-f land from the national forest, after which the land office will handle It ami grant titles. Tho nearest farm, or ranch, to Jar-bldgo Jar-bldgo Ie owned by the Pocry llro'hT of this city, It being five miles west. Mr. Tremowan stales, though, that living liv-ing is not exceptionally high, one lining lin-ing able to purchase a reasonably good treal for 50 rents. JARB1DGE IS A BOOM CMP Forest Supervisor C. S Tremewan of Elko, Nevada, who is In the city on nutlonal forest business, states that conditions at Jarbldge, the recently much advertised mining camp of north" ern Ncada, have bmn greatly exag geratt'd. He was at the camp about a week ago and states that he Is familiar fa-miliar with the uttuatlon. Mr. Tremewan suys there are about 500 people living In tents at Jarbldge and that there are about 500 men prospecting in tho district- Tho wagon road from the west, loading from Mountain Home, Dolse. and other Idaho Ida-ho towns and from Elko, Nevada, reaches to within a mile and a half of the camp, everything taken into the camp from that point having to be carried by pack animals. The road approaching the place fro mthe east, does not get nearer than 4 miles, nec-ebvltatlng nec-ebvltatlng the carrying of freight by pack trains. This route comes from Twin Falls. Idaho Both roads, however, how-ever, he says, will he built into tho camp within the next ten day There are a great many men going into the camp and Just as many coming com-ing away from IL Mr. Tremowan 9ays tli-re are not more than ten men at work on the mines of the entire camp anil that, really, there Is no development develop-ment work being done. There aro only fix men at work on tho Bourne property, prop-erty, which created the great excitement, excite-ment, and four of these are leasers. No mineral ledges have yt been |