The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-02-12
Especial Correspondence


JARBIDGE, New, Feb. I'D. A.
Bourne, father of Jarbidge gold camp,
owner of the great rich dyke wherein
the discoverer estimates there are $72,-
600 900 worth of ores standing prac-
tically above the ground, arrived in
Twin Falls today, er route to camp,
after having visited eastern and coast
cities and meanwhile decided on the
necessary milling plant for handling
of the low grade parts of the vein. His
name on the register of the Hotel Per
rine Immediately directed attention of
the local mining world to this new
figure in western gold mining history,
and The impressions made were favor
able, for d. A. Bourne is a personality
similar in almost all features to the
aggressive constructive characters who
first opened the great west half a
century ago. Evidently about 45 years
of age, standing fully six feet in height,
his physique is a tower of strength. His
every movement suggests that his mind,
will, and physical force are in har-
mony-each is capable of supporting
the other, and imply that when he
starts out to do things no obstacle is
sufficient to even temporarily emovc
the intention originally conceived.
Analysis therefore of d. A. Bourne's
wonderful success in finding what
seemingly ~Jarbidge may be the biggest
gold mine in the world, is less difficult
when it may have been the pleasure
of the writer to meet him. The task
of solving the problem of why Divine
Providence left it to this peculiar per-
sonality to open the Midas like golden
treasures of the Jarbidge mountains 50
that they may bless all mankind is
furthermore less irksome, when he fac.
is realized that his quest for tits re-
suit began twenty years ago. Then he
had once visited the wilds of northern
Nevada, was convinced of it's posses
sion of wonderfully rich gold resources,
and wendell his way back to Salt Lake.
There he obtained employment as a
lamp trimmer for the electric light
company, and his immediate superior
was George d. Aiken, who was serving
as a superintendent of the plant. Aiken
lives in Twin Falls now, being owner
of a warehouse and wholesale grocery
forwarding business. This fact, to-
gether with Bourne's inquiry for such
an institution as Aiken owns, and the
fact that the former was seeking to
learn whether he might ship his pro
posed mill into Jarbidge easier and
cheaper via Twin Falls than via
Bruneau and Mountainous, brought
both men together the first time since
their associations ON the electric light
plant in Zion. At that time Aiken was
frequently asked by his lamp-trimmer
to invest in the identical ledge which
is now said to contain so much golden
wealth. "Stake me out with a few
hundred dollars Bourne would saw.
in somewhat of a meek transformations
manner, "and | will find for us both
.he biggest gold mine in the world"
Aiken would then be asked to inspect !
samples of ore that Bourne carried con
~nnuously in his pockets, and their
especially rich features would be ex.
planned. Aiken then paid but little at
%tention to the matter, however, mas
much as the city was always filed with
prospeetors who sought grub-stakes for
each summers operations. Repeating
the experience of the ordinary lamp
trimmer, Bourne finally resigned, and
quietly departed from Aiken world,