The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-27
IARDIDGE NOW
MAKING GOOD
Many Active Companies; | 600
Men in HillS-MiIling
Ores.

Jarbidge now has thirty active COM
panies; upwards OF 500 men working
Tor wages. and not less than 1000 men
within a radius Of eight miles of the
camp. according 10 c. ID. De Witt. who
is spending a few days in salt Lake.
The phenomenally rich surface ore
first struck in camp attracted an ele-
ment which is drawn by no other
magnet bu. now much of that has dis
appeared and the camp has settled
down To a big low-grade proposition.
and Yet now and then very rich ore
is encountered" said Mr.. De Witt.
But the permanency of the camp de-
ponds in its widespread milling ore
bodies. In fact that is what makes all
great camps,
1--WE have had some big men in there
the past few months. Among them
United States mineralOgisL who re-
Gently completed his observations OF
the camp for the federal government,
On leaving. he said: i have made a
good many reports on mining camps
but the Jarbidge report Will be the
most favorable 1 ever sent in
Thousands of Claims
Nearly every foot of ground has
Jarbidge. Every little spring found in
the valleys is the site for a busy little
camp. Hundreds OF men are working
for themselves. or are grubstaked by
others.
'aThe Jarbidge Commercial club,
with Judge Ray. who recently returned
from attending the American mining
congress at Los Angeles, as the NOV
ing spirit. is active these days. A fine
H.
ter quarters. The club Will accom-
plish a great deal OF good
a unique feature OF this busting
mining camp is the fact that there Is
not a saloon in the place. The town
is on the forest reserve. Elko citizens
are about 70 build a road into Jarbicse
from the south. The camp needs most
of all telephone. and the Bell people
are stringing lines from ROgerson.
Pavlak Developments
about thirty-five men are at work
on the Pavlak. The principal work
ings is a 435 crOsscut tunnel, when
will give foot for foot vertical depIh
on the rich ore ledge explored above
nv fortv-foot shaft. Morrison &
MONT have a 3O0-fOot drift on the
vein showing eighty feet OF ore. They
are sinking a fifty-foOt winZe on high
grade stun. Their tunnel has four
foot face of S4S ore. They have a
four-inch streak giving of $1,000
rock A shipment was recently sent
10 salt Lake which netted S4lO a ton
1t cost SIS a ton to get II hauled over
the seventy-miIe road TO Rogerson,
the nearest railroad point There are
now six leaser outfits working on the
Paviak. Graders are at work fixing
the size for the 15O-tOn Huntington
mill. which is now on the way 10
camp. II order 10 get the heavy
parts oves the rough road from Rim
Rocks 10 camp. much road construe-
ton will be done Immediately, as the
mill will be set up next month
Famous Bourn and Others.
CLARK & Fletcher are driving $50
foot tunnel on the Bourn claim l I'M
derstand they have encountered lot
OF good milling ore, and are taking II
out They have nearly dozen men
employed. Pick and Shovel property
is a busy place, with the men driving
a tunnel and sinking a shaft both Of
which are in ore. Occur d'Alene-Jar-
bidge at Craters. fiye miles away, Is
working a dozen men, and with graft
tying results. Mr.. Fox of Twin Falls.
manager and superintendent. is get
ting in eight tons of merchandise.
building cabins. and expects 10 work
the property all winter me McNoi-
nick Crater property has succeeded in
interesting Gooding capital. A 200-foot
tunnel. making for the main ledge, has
opened I'D forty feet OF shipping ore
Two and a half feet Of this ore viii
run $500. Some OF il assays into the
thousands. Mccoy COnnOrs property,
where the original strike was made.
has a great deal OF ore on the surface.
I understand they recently sold con-
trolling interest 10 New York capital
lists. and that extensive developments
viii soon be inaugurated.
Wonderful Values.
''Winkler & Benan's Success prop
erty, near the Pavlak, has. 1 believe,
the biggest showing in the camp. Wire
gold has been found in the rock. Other
rock shows as high as $4,000. The
ground where the richest rock was
discovered is plastered with claims
four deep, and the matter is now be-
ing threshed out in the ElkO courts /
hear il will be carried 10 the Supreme
court il necessary. The workings are
down 10 solid formation. showing two
20 six feet Of high-grade II IS no
unusual thing TO find $4,000 10 $4,000
values, and there is an enormous body
Of ore in sight.