The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-02-12

we were talking and Bob introduced
me. The newspaper man asked ME to
tell him what the mine was worth. |
said If / should tell you what l think
the Bourne ledge in Jarbidge is worth
| know you would not believe me, 50
what is the use of my making any
statement The reporter suggested
that it might be worth as much as
$12,000,0 900, whereupon / said it might,
as nobody could tell at this time. Then
Montgomery said he would fix up the
story, and l suppose he and the report
er did, because the mex day | read that
big account which was published in
the Los Angeles Express and which was
copied in the coast and Salt Lake news
papers. In reality, however, while a
great many people thought that this
was a very large estimate to make Of
the values in the Bourne ledge above
the ground, lido believe it is the most
wonderful showing that has ever been
found, and some of the values that
parts Of this ore carries surpass belief.
81 am on my way, when | leave
here for Boise, then l will proceed to
J~arbidge, from Mountainhouse via
Bruneau, and will take in full equr
ment for a force of men to work %
the property. The mill for the mine
has been ordered, and will include
amalgamating and concentrating faeil
tiles, and it will be put in place as
rapidly as it can. There has not been
any use trying to work there this
winter, because of the cold weather and
the snow. That it is a great ledge |
think everybody admits hat sees it. In
Chicago l was offered $500,0 600 cash
for 100000 shares of the stock, and re-
fused to sell at this price, winch shows
how much confidence / personally have
In this property. AS it is stocked for
100000 shares of a par value OF VI
each, you see the Chicago offer | have
mentioned gives the company's hold
ings a valuation at this time of 49,
800, 000."
Bourne was given an informal re-
ception of the Commercial club here,
and related that almost 81 years ago
ne was in the region of the Bruneaa
headquarters, punching cattle, when one
day an Indian came along, carrying a
sack filled with rich ore. From TINS
Indian he secured several samples,
were very rich, and these excited
his curiosity. "Where did you get
these?' Bourne asked, and the In
dian shrugged his shoulders, and IN q
of-fact way replied: away
up in the re-" and pointed to the
headwaters of the creek now referred
to as the Jarbidge and further said, ID
Indian tongue, "Heap gold, heap
81 never forgot what the IN
iian said," continued Bourne to the
gentlemen at the Commercial club, a.
ways thinking / would 60 in there pros
and try to find the place whe'e
nat Indian got his sack of the yeho"
metal. First one thing and then sp
'ther, however, delayed me. Mean
While l worked around the country, anu
bout the time / had been thinking |"
'etting into the Jarbidge the wal came
Ip and | went to the Philippines as"
| did not forget the one pom,
I my life, however, all this time, an'
'ot In as soon as the opportunity pr.
ented itself, with the result you :"
now. ! came here to investigate ""
hances for shipping the mill into %.
'dge via Twin Falls, and it seems 'nD
the best logical route for freIgn'ins
ITO the camp; also it seems Twin ram