The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-01-29
NEWSPAPERS
RATHER SK[PTICAL

The faculty of seeing the newspaper
folks, handing them the story the right
way and garnering the columns of live
reading matter which fall to the man
who knows how to talk Interestingly
and earnestly, is evidently strong in
the makeup of D. A. Bourne, discov-
erer of the reported immense values of
the new Jarbridge district.
Locally, n~ewspapermen ear attest
to the fact that Mr.. Bourne knows how
to present the best side of those enter
prises with which they have personal
knowledge of his connection in this
county. They gave him much space
and for a considerable time believed
that he was about to bring forward a
new mining and milling enterprise in
closely territory which would aid ma
terially to the annual bullion output of
White Pine county. Accordingly Mr..
Bourne was given literally of space in
aid of the general welfare of the
community.
Since identifying this Mr.. Bourne
with the Bourne of Jarbridge fame,
however, Jarbridge looks to them a
trile more misty than it did before.
"Them' refers to they who helped
Ihnnof Mr. po,rrpo nrn;oof ~ tho
vicinity of the Campbell property
north of McGil until the fact became
apparent that the gentleman had run
quite rampant. They are not ready to
say that at Jarbridge there was recur-
renee of the Campbell vicinity microbe
in the system of Bourne, but neither
are they ready to affirm that there has
ben sufficient lapse of time to eradicate
microbe exaggeration entirely from the
system of the gentleman.
And so they are looking upon Jar
bridge as a possible big thing-Bourne
may nave really hit a bonanza-bo-
nanza, the real IA karat article, but
they want to see it before going on
record.
Bourne was in the district two years
ago, and again last summer. Two years
ago he located ground in the vicinity
of the Campbell ranch, did some work
there and then turned up in tow with
a declaration that he had made a dis
covery of a great property. He brought
samples with him to prove his state
ments and asserted that the rock made
around $4,000 to the ton, and some a
great, great deal higher, according to
the findings of the assayers. One big
specimen is still to be seen in a brok-
er's display of historic stuff in Ely a
sample of some so or rs pounds weight
reposing in the Office of E. W. Hulse.
This sample was brought to the Ely
stock exchange when Jack Binford
was devoting energy to the pushing
forward OF that institution. He put
the rock on display with the Bourne
tag of $4,000 value, and folks marvel
ed at such looking stuff carrying values
SO high. Then came an hour of argu-
ment in which opinion was pretty
largely on the side of a miner who de;
clared that no such rock could make
returns above a comparatively few dol
lars, whereupon a slice was carved off
and an assayer given a job. The best
no could do was $1l To the ton. where
upon Bourne stock suffered a chill that
brought out the fur overcoat. Mr.
Bourne o thereafter decided not to
erect a 500, 900 mill on the property
and a little later disappeared from To-
cal view. At the time of this depart
ure he said he was going to Humboldt
reserve to develop some very rich cop
per properties which he had located
there. Jarbridge is in the Humboldt
reserve, but Jarbridge is gold.
It is possible that conditions came
about here with which Mr.. Boruen was
unable for one reason or another to
successfully cope and that his failure
to bring in the producer he had in
mind in the county was by reason OF
circumstance which he will later over
come, but meanwhile most of those
who have recalled his name and activi-