The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-26
NEW RICH FINDS
IN JARb|DGE
Director Dewitt of Paylak
Property Brings News TO
Salt Lake.
HIGH GRADE BEING
FOUND. ABUNDANTLY
Ninety Men Working on Wages
in the District at the
Present.

c, d. Dewitt. one Of the directors of
the Jarbldge- Pavlak Mining company. ar
rived last night direct from camp. with a
bunch OF very gratifying news for all
people interestc in the district,
AS whole, Jarbidge is making good
he explained. enthusiastically, because
IL Is showing better conditions every day
I'm the first place. they have been get
[ing some exceedingly fine ore out Of the
himself, and with his manager, Jesse
Mitten, Is taking out quite large num-
Der OF sacks OF ore that carries $500 TO
$500 and frequently better. which is 10
form shipment that is TO be made in
he near future. These ores are for a
test mill run, and II viii determine the
kind Of milling facilities the camp re-
quires5 and also demonstrate beyond a
doubt that the ores OF JarhidSc carry
values evenly distributed throughout the
tonnage.
"Moirst e Co, have taken A lease on
the Pavlak ledge, also Frank Rtddle-the
same man who has lease working on
the Bourne.
Speaker Bros. another crowd OF
lessees on the Pavlak. are sulcing the
fine rich dirt (decomposed ore) that is
coming ont OF their tunnel, and the
precious yellow metal so recovered is SUI
6ciently large to pay all the expenses of
their leasing operations, They are secur-
ing practically the first real gold bricks.
In the shape Of rctorts, that Jarbidge
the genuine stuff Is there, They recover
the gold In sluice boxes, laid alongside a
little creek which traverses the gulch Just
below where they are working. Alto
eether there are nine leases IN operation
on the Pavlak property.
The strike In tho Pavlak tunnel
which was thought to have been the TAFT
ledge last week, proved just what ] al
ways saba blind stringer-but II Is a
rich one. having been found TO he three
and one-half feet wide and is all ore OF
a very high grade showing some evil
dences OF tellurium.
THE Hilltop workings are showing
up finely, and John Escallon told me thai
every shot in the Pick and Shovel shaf,
shows IL TO be a vet better property than
has been supposed by the results disclosed
in the shaft heretofore,
Nelson and Richardson brought down
the richest ore ever found IN the dlstrlc.
from the vicinity of the territory between
the Pick and Shovel and the PavlaH
claims. They have some claims up there
and IL was from these ledges that tho
fine rich samples were secured. al the
| surface. Theirs Is the latest strike in the
district and caused a sensation through
out the camp when the crowds OF pros
pectors were permitted TO see the h>sh'
grade character or the ore.
&c. ClarkSon. an expert mining mar
from Aspen Colo. came out with me. and
he declares the showing in the camp faI
surpasses his expectations. He is er
route back to the Centennial state, where
he will raise capital and Immediately re-
turn. for the purpose OF getting into jar
bidge as strongly as possible for himself
and friends and as quickly as possible
"There are now in the neighborhood oi
ninety men working on pay In Jarbidge
We have nine men working on the com
pany tunnel and there are twenty sever
working on the leases, In all, there arc
thirty-siX men working for pay on the
Pavlak property. We arc working three
shifts on the tunnel, and three men tc
the shift. which is as many as can posi-
bly, work at one time on the face of the
tunnel, as il is only 5N7 feet. and there
isn't room for more than three. We have
established as pay day in the camp tho
tenth day OF each month, The lessees or
| the Pavlak property have established
their pay day for the same date. The
Paylak company was the first OF the tp-
orators in the district to inaugurate 4
regular pay day. and 1t is expected that
other companies viii establish a regular
pay day in The camp.