Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-02-03
MORE ABOUT
THAT JORBIGE
STATESMAN RECEIVES MORE EN-
CONTRACTING NEWS FROM
TWIN FALLS
Prospectors Rushing To New Camp
From Magic City-AIany Now On
Trail-Telephone Line Now Be-
ing Constructed To Camp

ing Constructed To Camp
TWIN FALLS, Jan SD w.
Powers arrived here last night from
Jarbidge bringing among interesting
items TIE details OF the most recent
strike III that district which has
been made by the prospectors grub
staked by H. H. Hoover of this city
20 days ago. Powers says the vein
is at the mouth of Pine creek. about
a mile south of the Bourne Bonanza
ledge. is three to four feet wide and
The characteristic Jarbidge quartz
pans strings of gold which have
greatly enthused the already ex-
tremely optimistic mining men in
the camp.
Some of the ore is of a more sui
phide character. The news brought
by Powers has increased the excite
ment among the crowds here quar-
tered from night to night. some go
ing in and other returning from
Jarbidge to make preparations for
returning and beginning further
operations crowd of a dozen
prospectors and operators came in
today from Wallace, including W. S.
Haskins and Dave Cromie, all of
whom will proceed tomorrow to Jar
bidge. They gazed with approval
when shown the samples here of
the ores. which include three dis
tinct classes. each of which is as
easily identified with Jarbidge as
We're the original ores from the
Jumbo and Combination mines in
GOldheld, and the various ores
yielded by the principal mines of
Cripple Creek.
Thomas clinton, farmer of
Bull but formerly a mining man
and who as grub staked into Jar
bidge a month ago by citizens re-
siding in the vicinity OF his resi-
dence, made a strike early this week
and refused to sell for $4,000. AS
q reason he explained: Hereto
fore ! gave away for a mere song
several prospects that discovered
IN new mining districts, and now that
J have found a mine i'm a district
which is going to be a great wealth
producer for many men, intend to
work this proposition myself If it
fails ] will have a loss all to bear
myself but ! have the farm and will
not feel the loss. However | do
not believe ] am going to again meet
with bad luck
The lots in the Hilltop claim
whose surface rights are being leased
for townsite occupation and which
viii form the heart of the business
district have almost been closed out
and prices have advanced until the
bonuses offered equal almost the
amount of the original price An
other claim adjoining is being pre-
pared for similar purposes.
There are being established RESI-
taurants. stores. rooming houses and
almost an other classes OF business:
the construction Of cabins and the
stretching of tents are largely oc-
upyins attention of new arrivals
end this work is largely becoming
easier through the disappearan- of
the snow from the gulch The worst
features attaching TO prospecting
DOW are the sownslidcs. according 20
reports which arrived today which
are spending themselves half a mile
irom the camp Many narrow es-
capes are reported, But nobody has
been caught in any of these avail
ncnes
Experiments made this week by
Assayer e. p. Hart on some of the
Jarbidge ores convinced him that
tney are easily treated by syanide,
and he said that be expects "a con-
siderable portion of the districts OUT
put Will be found amenable to this
method
Mayor Hahn has received a letter
from Death Valley Scotty. in
which he says he is en- route into
Jarbiige camp. "Sc0tty mailed his
letter at Inlay. New
Twenty outfits bound for Jarbidge
are delayed at National Camp, in
humboldt county New. by the deep
SHOWS on the ranges just north of
that district according to informa-
ton brought here today by Wallace
Erwin who came arond via Winnie
mucca and Ogden
kilograms received this week from
Senator Hepburn at Washington an
nounced that the postoaice al Jar
odge viii soon be established with
w a. Wines as postmaster.
Work will start the coming week
on a telephone line from Twin Falls
to larbidge which is expected to be
completed in about six weeks. The
Bell company IS making this extern
sion to its system
TWIN FALLS. Jan. PC. Al.
Lane is here from Jarbidge after
making a To-day inspection there
under instructions from Eugene
Grutt of Rawhide He purchased
group of claims for his southern
Nevada principal. the deal involving
$4,000, and wired Grutt 10 come
on az once to consider a bond on
one of the principal groups In the
district Lane said
Jarbidge has the biggest surface
showing any mining man. i'm my
opinion. has ever seen. and while it
is conceded the original Bourne dis
covery is the greatest. there are five
others which I believe are at this
time equally as promising. Too
much cannot be said for the district.
or nrocnnrf in reality tho fr,.fh hoe