The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-25
MINES AND MINING
JARb|DGE NOT FOR
4GET-RICH- QUICK"
Adventures Leave in Disgust
While Conservative Mining
Men Go In.

Stripped of the glamor with which
the booster invests the new gold camp,
and defended from the attacks of the
disappointed adventuTer with ham
mer, Jarbidge is no doubt presented IN
as true a light as has ever enveloped
il, in a private letter just received
from Engineer Winthrop W. Fisk, who
is in the camp in the interest o. the
Dorsey syndicate, of this city. MI
Fisk endeeay Ors to present conditions
as they really are, for the benefit OF
his associates; it is known that his
judgment is good and II is believed
that his statements are uncolored. His
letter is so interesting that 1t is re-
produced in full He says:
THE wagon road from Buhl and
Twin Falls is open and II is getting
better every day. Light teams have
than a week, and now siX-horse teams
are pulling in. Mr.. Bourne and wife
yesterday came in an auto TO the rim
above Jack Hole, and another auto
from Bull came to the ridge between
Jack Hole and Jarbidge. With the
fine weather we are now having II
Will be only a few days until this
road will be in fair condition into
THE wireless telegraph company is
at work at this end. 1t has estab-
lished its station on top of the hill
west of town and has erected a wire
at Twin Falls and HOLSTER are work
ing and in a few days the company
will be ready for business here.
Town Continues to Grow.
"The town continues TO grow. The
tents about the canyon now number
almost 800. Lumber is beginning 10
arrive. A few tents have floors and
few have doors and WinoWs and board
fronts. Soon lumber will begin 20 re-
place the canvas. and already the sun
in the middle of the day procialms
the change.
greatly Increased, but there is marked
change in the character of the popula-
ticn. Men who came here expecting 10
get work have gone, while business
men, mine operators and even rev
investors have taken their places.
While the payroll of the camp is yet
small and is likely to remain small Tor
some time, considerable prospecting Is
going on now and the results are en-
couraging for the future of the camp
There is nowhere near the amount
of knocking that there was u seems
to be an accepted fact that it is 10 be
q milling camp rather than shipper
and that time will be required TO prop
erly develop it, Therefore, those VINO
were looking for large and quick re-
turns are fast getting out. Many VINO
located a lot of ground and even went
so far as to stake it, expecting 10
realize a fortune for their location
stakes, have tired of the waiting game
and are looking most anXiousIy Ior
some one TO do their location work TOT
an interest; or. failing in that they are
coming down in their prices by leaps
and bounds, having in many cases u
OUTLYING ground offered their claims
claims have been sold for $40 each 10
enable their owners to get enough
money to leave camp.
Claims Staked in Snow.
"As the ground was staked from the
Snake river lava plateau all the way
to the top of the mountain range, !
where the snow must have been ~ |
feet and 80 feet deep, it is obvious that
thousands of the claims are worthless. |
ON the other hand a considerable num- /
her of the snow claims which hap
pened TO be staked on the mineral belt /
are proving up well and may make |
mines.
when great bikes 20 and so feet, or |
even 100 feet wide, yield small pan |
nings of gold from samples taken pro- |
miscuously from all parts OF the out.
crOp, il becomes simply question OF 1
develoDnent work to determine the aV-
eraee value of the great body ana /
whether it Is TO prove paying mine |
With such large bodies OF ore even
small average values will make big /
mines, especially with the favorable /
conditions found here for mining ana
milling.
'The temporary adverse conditions |
which have prevailed here TIE last
winter which have tended TO retard /
development Of the mines, can be tully /
appreciated by mining men, whereas |
the general public is at a loss 10 |
know why the camp is so slow. To be |
sure. the camp was overlooked as a 1
rich high-grade camp, which II mas
not vet proved 70 be. and which L do |
not expect II to be; but the bunches OF /
high-grade will act as sweeteners Tor |
the whole and greatly advance the mill |
average.
Believes Values Go Deep.
'aTbere seems to be fear with many |
that the great surface shoWlngS can be |
nothing hut surface deposits, but let |
ms look at the formation for answer |
The whole formation is volcanic; the |
audiences are that each 81 the various |
strata came up from below; mere Is |
every indication that the naturalization |
Of the dikes was erected prlor 10 me
formation of the dikes; there is no IN |
dication of surface enrichment or IN /
filtration of values, hence If the MIN /
eral values came up with the formation |
of the dikes it is natural to suppose /
that the values may be expected TO eX- /
tend downward. and the only questions |
TO be determined are the extent or the /
bikes at depth and the general average
values of the whole mass, 10 Demon
strate how great is TO be the future
of the mines. -.
with a well defined contact vein, the
size and continuity of such vein at
depth may be relied upon; therefore,
think that in our property, located as
IT is upon a contact vein with sur
face showing more than 20 feet wide,
we may with considerable confidence
look forward TO opening a great NINE
even if the average values should be
low"