Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
DEEP PROSPECTING
PLEASES JARBIDGE
Surface Values on One Claim Are
Established to a Depth
of $50 Feet
(srecial 70 The Heraldl

TWIN fALLO1 1utlIlO, hoS 80
Theodore Parks has just brought here
samples of ore freely spotted with
gold, worth $3.50 ton, from the breast
of the tunnel that has just pierced the
Taft ledge of the Jarbidge-Pavak
company at Jarbidge. The entire breast
of the tunnel is showing those rich
characteristics, and justifying antici-
pations of the principal mining men
who have studied the Jarbidge geo
logical conditions.
Surface values of the Taft ledge are
thus established to a depth of $50 feet.
1t is five to fifteen feet wide on the
top, and there were obtained from
these outcropping ores that yielded
almost as much gold as the breast of
the tunnel exhibits. The tunnel is be
ing sent through the ledge 400 feet
further east, to cut. the Pavlak ledge
and establish the continuity of the
great values thereof at a depth of
500 feet.
No doubt whatever is entertained, in
view of the disclosure of the fine show
ing in the Taft, that the PaVlak ledge
way down. It's surface values go in
will be found continuously rich all the
to the thousands, and with the con-
tinuity of values established as far
down as 500 feet, one of the principal
reasons for calling Partridge one of
the great camps of the world will have
been fully justified. Within sixty or
seventy days the Pavlak ledge will
have been cut.
FINDS BONANZA ORE
The Pick and Shovel owners are
sending their shaft down on the hang
ing wall of the ledge and also finding
bonanza ore. superintendent w. w.
Scott, formerly of Eureka, Utah, ar
rived here a few days ago with reports
for the stockholders, and these show
that the average values in the bottom
of the shaft are better than $400
ton. One of the largest stringers, at
thirty-two feet, yielded 100 pounds in
ore as the shaft passed through 1t,
worth SO a pound in gold, or about
$4,000 a ton. The shaft is now almost
so feet deep. where the values are in
creasing and on which level the ledge
is to be cross-cut, and its interior is
expected to show Gust as on the sur
face) higher grade ore than on either
the foot or hanging wall.
The Pick and Shovel has been con-
sidered, al the surface, one of the most
assuring lodges in the camp, and the
fact that 1t is making good consti-
tutes the second reason why Jarbidge
mining men are more than ever opti-
mistic regarding it's future.
Owners of the Bourne ledge (Which
the discoverer estimates to contain
$27, ,0O0, 900 above the surface) have been
waiting to learn what the deep pros
pecting on the other lodges named
would disclose The Bourne is con-
sidered to be merely one of many rich
ones; Bourne's magnificently large es-
Inmates of his ores in sight may not
have been ephemeral; but nothing has
been done to prove its richness.
THREE GOOD PROSPECTS
Mining men who see the Pavlak and
the Pick and Shovel disclosures think
Bourne's ledge will also prove up all
right whenever he gets to work on
sinking. His property is not, however,
considered the first of value in the
camp, but is regarded as the third, in
view Of the recent gratifying results
obtained on the Pick and Shovel and
the Pavlak.
Jarbidge camp is seemingly vindicat-
ing itself. through deep prospecting.
Until the heavy snowbanks disap-
peared the prosecution of these opera
tions was financially inadvisable The
camp has in the meantime relaxed only
initial boom phases that were super
fetal. Hundreds of people who went in
during the last winters stampede,
primarily to conduct restaurants,
rooming houses, saloons and gam
bling games, vanished, but 1000 to 200
people remain in the district, more men
are employed at wages, locations of
claims that were staked on the snow
banks last winter are running out,
and mining men earnestly intent on
procuring claims, and mining, are find
ing better opportunities.
The Success of Jarbidge district has
depended absolutely upon demonstra-
tions of values at depth, which are
proving it to be one of the greatest
gold-bearing areas ever discovered, and
altogether the most inviting, assuring
field for mining investors in the Unit
ed States.