The Anaconda standard., 1895-01-07
jim WARDNER'S LATEST
The Veteran Has Struck a Solid
Mountain Of Gold
THAT'S THE WAY HE TELLS 1T
LeadvIIle Is the Scene of the
Marvellous Discovery and the
story Is Worth Reading
at Any Rate.

MIssouLA. Jan. 6.-The Missoula friends
of "Jino Wardner. the veteran OF the
Coeur d'Alene country, will recall tho
glowing tales which he told of South
Africa, during his recent visit to this city.
They we're so glowing as to be red hot.
some of them, and Mr.. Wardner's old
time associates winked as he related them
and made sub rosa remarks about "Jim's
yarns" The following extract from the
SpoLeSman-ReUie will be read with inter-
est by all who are fortunate enough TO
have met Mr.. Wardner and to have lis
toned 10 his Munchausen tales of mines
and mining:
"Men unacquainted with Jim Wardner
regard Colonel Sellers as the typical
Amemican romancer; but they who have
been fortunate enough to brush up against
Wardner's brilliant imagination know
that Sellers was quite ordinary In his line.
Sellers scared in tho clouds; Wardner
rises above the fleeciest circles, tram
scends the airy cushion of the earth, and
boldly floats in the pure ether of the uni
verse. and all this time, paradoXical as II
may seem. he is down in the depths OF the
earth shoveling out gold by the carload.
.When Mr.. Wardner was in South
Africa he spent one whole day in the
Crown Reef mine. Il asked Captain Web
ber,' he writes, If il would be possible for
him to tell how much ore he had blocked
out after six years development work.
And Captain Webber answered: Enough,
Mr.. Wardner, to run that 240-stamp mill
$50 years, and crush four tons per day TO
the stamp
"To-day 1 saw more ore blocked out in
the Little Johnny than in the Crown
Reef" writes Mr.. Warder from Leadville.
The Crown Reef will average $40 to tho
ton; the Little Johnny will 60 from $50 to
s4oO.'
"lt is hoped that these figures are accu-
rate, because If they are accurate the sill
YER question has been solved and the
Hollanders and other foreign bondholders
who have been taking our obligations in
gold will bo ill with vexation because the
contract was not payable in silver.
The reader will take his pencil and
work n simple little problem in mathe-
matics; 240 stamps crushing four tons to
the stamp daily, would turn out every
day, in round numbers, loo tons of ore.
In q year they would crush 5,0)0 tons in
$50 years they would get away with 81, ,75o,-
600 tons. Mr.. Wardner says the Little
Johnny ore will run from $50 TO Si00 per
ton. Take 500 as a fair average, and we
should have as the output of 150 years the
handsome little sum of Sl0,950, ,0O,0O0l
The present total gold stock of the world
is about 81 1000, 100000.
But this is a product of n single mine.
We dare say there are half a dozen others
nearly as great, TO say nothing OF scores
OF little million dollar propositions. And
beside, there would be no necessity of
pohing along $50 years with 2i0 stamps.
The capacity could be soon increased TO
800 stamps, and counting literally for
delays and accidents, the entire Sl1 o.
100000 could bo extracted in ten years.
This would be equivalent 10 moro than
$1,000, 100000 q year. II is doubtful if even
the present gold-squandering administra-
tion could drive out the golden eagles at
that rate.
There's billions in it,"