The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-08-17
BIuster Mill Turning Out $4,000
In Bullion Per Month
REPORTS FROM CAMP INDICATE
HEALTHY CONDITION
Buster Nine Planning to Erect Cy-
anide Plant to Save Gold Lost in
Tailings.

The outlook for Jarbidge is most
cheerful. and cheerful in the right
sense Of the word, for it has the pros
pect of being permanently started on
the highway for good steady growth,
The early history of Jarbidge does not
show period of wildcatting, in fact
it has been otherwise. Its growth has
been retarded and slow, it has been
held back by chain of circumstances
that would discourage an ordinary
prospect, but Jarbidge could not be
downed, 1t had the real stuff and
mining camp, like human being with
merit, cannot forever be kept in the
background.
So Jarbidge is coming to the front.
II had its start in about 1909, but its
early development was slow, though
now those that are interested are glad
that it was thus for slowness has
made its future absolutely sure.
The ,Bluster company now has its
mill built and it is turning out about
$4,000 in bullion per month. What a
matter of pride this must be to the
owners who started without dollar,
struggling along in their effort to
prove to the world that they had real
find, but getting no encouragement
working from sunrise to sunset with
their own hands, and finally they in
duced the Allis-Chalmers Machinery
company to put up mill for them and
to accept their notes as part payment
for it. These notes are all paid, and
now the general manager of the Allis-
Chalmers company, Mr.. Hansen, of
Salt Lake, has sent for representa-
tives of the Bluster company to con-
suit with him in regard to building a
power plant and cyanide plant to add
to their mill. The cyanide plant is
needed because heads are running
about SIG OF that they are saving
$11.20, the rest going into the tailings
This shows a saving on amalgamating
of 20 per cent The purpose of the cy-
anide plant is to catch the rest. The
mill is located on the Jarbidge river
and the ore is sent down on an aerial
tram, S,400 feet long, having vertical
drop of 1,700 feet between the termin-
ais. The payroll of the company is
now about $4,000 per month, which,
however, will be reduced when the
extra work Is completed, such as road
building, etc. Talk is well in its place,
but it is production that interests the
layman and Jarbidge is delivering the
goods as steady producer.
The Flake company has quarter
of million dollars worth Of ore above
the tunnel level, which is blocked out
on three sides in a vein three feet
wide with an average value of $50 per
ton This company has been trying to
raise $4,000 during the past year to
build q mill, offering generous in
ducements to investors. But owing
to depressed financial conditions, this
effort has proved a failure. But not
daunted with the financial troubles,
James Johns, the superintendent OF
the property, fitted up two horse
power gasoline engine, using labor
atory crusher and an assayer's pulp
grinder. which he bought for $75.
With this crude arrangement, and
working on high grade streak below
the tunnel level, he took out 60 ounces
OF gold in days, which netted the
company $S4O The laboratory grind
er was then worn out, which is not to
be wondered at, as they are merely
built for grinding assay samples.
Encouraged by this showing, the
Flake company have now sent for a
three-stamp mill and the machinery
is scheduled to arrive there on the
18th of August, when j. F. O'Byrne
will take charge OF the mill and per
sonally see that the maximum of re-
covery is obtained by straight ANAL
gamation. Mr.. O'Byrne returned from
the exposition Tuesday, and has been
cleaning up his work in Elko prepara-
tory to moving to Jarbidge. where he
plans on living for at least a year
Elko Free Press.
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