East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-25
GOLDEN GRAINS LURE
MAN ON TO WEALTH
OLD PROSPECTOR REALIZES
DREAMS OF HIS YOUTH
After Years of Patient and Persistent
Effort, He Is Rewarded By Discov-
cry of Mine of Fabulous Riches
Stampede Results from Announce
ment.

sistent in following up the spattered
grains of fine gold which washed
down a creek on the Idaho side of the
Nevada-Idaho divide and determined
to locate the source from which the
particles originated, D. A. Bourne,
who has prospected all over the north
west for the past 40 years, located
the one great ambition Of his life, a
big gold mine-that Of Jarbidge-
said by mining men of standing in
the mining world to be the new camp
of the west, which will rank with the
Klondike, famous Boise basin, Gold
field, Ely and other now famous
camps.
Forced to appeal to his friends for
a grub stake so that he could keep up
on the trail of this shifting gold,
Bourne has suddenly awakened to
find himself wealthy. for not only has
he sold a half interest in the original
discovery for a half million cash, but
he retained half interest in the COM
pany now holding his claims, said to
be worth s27o00.0o0.
Stampede Is On.
That a stampede Is now on into this
camp is without question true. There
are 600 people in and around Jar
bidge where a year ago there were
none except possibly a stray sheep
herder. All those coming out stated
that the principal roads into the camp
are alive with those going in, and
the number include the pioneer mi
ners of the west, many who have wit
messed the greatest stampedes of the
last so years.
The camp has all that goes with
new mining town, from a general tent
store to a saloon. Flour is selling
per pound, bread from 10 to Is cents
a loaf and other necessities of life at
proportionately high prices.
Even the townsite of Jarbridge has
been surveyed and placed on the
market, while the land surrounding
the new town is staked off in mining
claims for a radius of five miles. 1t
is claimed the new gold field is 30
miles square.
The values found in the ore are
high; in fact, higher than most min
Ing llltH lihS ~ repeat SllAlilllio NAieAN
if they did SO they would be ridiculed.
Reports that can be taken as reliable
on these values have been investigat-
ed and in every instance upheld, are
that the ore carries from $500 to ST.
900 a ton according to the assays.
The quartz is petite and covers a
large area. A mining man who has
just returned from the camp claims
he saw sampled ore that would assay
as high as from $4,000 to $4,000 per
ton.
The formation is peculiar, the ore
being found alongside dhyolite dykes
20 to so feet high, intersecting con-
tracts of lime and porphyry at almost
right angles.
Discovery a Mystery.
Mystery surrounds the original dis
coveries in the new district. Mining
men have heard rumors for years
that there was some kind of a gold
mine in Jarbidge. According to the
story it was originally found by a
Keeping his secret well
to himself and indicating to but
few friends that he knew where
there was a big gold mine, he was
forced to abandon his search to de-
velop the district through the on
coming winter and returning to civ
ilization sealed the secret with the
thought that he would quietly wait un-
til next spring after the snow had
melted and go back and stake it out.
He died that winter.
Since then mining men have Won
dered and prospected.
When Bourne re-discovered the lost
mine he became rich man. He has
never had so much money as he has
now and to celebrate he went back to
his old New York home this winter
after an absence since childhood.