The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-06-26
MELTING SNOW WASHES
OUT EVERYTHING IN THE
WAY OF BRIDGES
ALONG ROAD
All Interests Tied Up
Lacking Material
Town Has Enough Ore in Sight
For Ten Years but Cannot Get
Things Under Way Until High
Ways Are in Condition.

JAfBIIGE, NeN.0JarD1uge the
wonderful and the beautiful" has
been considerably up against it the
past winter and spring; the wonder
full scenery has been blanketed with
great snow-drifts and the beautiful
canyons are now and have been, for
weeks, and it is expected that they
will continue for two or three weeks
more, to be roaring torrents of water,
nearly if not quite impossible, and
whose raging, swiftly flowing cur
rents have washed out about all the
bridges along u roads and trails,
as well as materially changing thel
way of our town.
With millions of dollars worth of
ore blocked out in a few of the mines
of the district, and fine showings be-
ing opened up in other mines. with
numerous other prospects bonded to
parties who would be glad to be at
work; the camp seems destined TO
%languish in dullness and despair for
another season. unless some of our
outside official friends will get a hus-
tie on and finish a road into the camp
which will be a serviceable road at all
times of the year.
The Elkoro company with c~o
enough already opened to keep a large
mill producing for the next ten years.
n the Legitimate company with an
ore body 25 feet wide opened on the
the 300 foot level, both wanting to
build mills, and neither of them able
to get in supplies to any more than
barely keep up a very small amount OF
development work.
A new road, and a good road is an
absolute necessity for the develop
ment of the district. The sooner this
road is built, the quicker will the
mines begin to produce the millions
in gold now locked in the quartz Of
our developed veins, and
the further development of other mil
lions in those numerous prospects
which are scattered throughout the
Jarbidge mining district.
The prOspectOrs of the camp have
done all that they could, they have
stayed with their prospects for the
past sever years and have opened up
numerous good bodies of ore: they
have surveyed out routes for new
roads, they have subscribed their
share Of the money necessary to build
a new road, they have gone their lin
it, and it is now up to those outside.
parties who will benefit from the
growth and production of the camp
to go ahead and build the road.
With a lively mining camp of sew
eral thousand population and num-
erous big payrOlls, producing a mil
lion or two every year, there should
be abundant incentive for our neigh
boring friends to assist in getting this
big production started. There is al
ready sufficient ore reserves develop
ed to insure the above life and pro-
duction for a period of over ten years,
and the vein system of the district has
yet been but superficially developed;
the deepest workings have not yet
penetrated to nearly one thousand feet
in depth, and in a formation similar to
GOldfield and Cripple Creek where
greater depth has brought forth great
er values.
An electric power line is being con
structed into the camp which will in
sure an abundance of cheap power;
the district cover an area of over &c
square miles, with good prospects all
ove it, and as yet with only about
half a dozen mines with any amount
OF development; and yet with a won
nCAIulAg 6bOu docultu lulults
Anyone can figure for himself the
monetary advantages that are bound
to accrue from the production of the
J%arbidge district to the county, to the
business men who supply the camp
and to the transportation companies
which must handle the vast amount of
food supplies, mine supplies, mill sun
plies, machinery, mine timbers, lum-
Der, etc, that will be used here m
the next decade.
Jarbidge, to those who have been
here, has always held great promise
for the future, those who nave not
remained have had to come back 10
1.-THE land of promise" and while those
who have remained on the ground,
have done the best they could against
great obstacles, they fully believe in
the future of the district and are al
ways alive not only to the possibilities
of the camp but are right up to date
on state and national questions. One
Of the leading features of the camp
is its commercial club, which the past
winter has sent several valuable sug-
g%estions to the state legislature be-
sides sending a few salient sugges-
tons to our representatives at Wash
ington.
Some of our boys were at the front
along the Mexican border and quite a
number of our brightest young men
were among the first to enlist upon
the first call for volunteers, and on
Registration day we sent in a goodly
list Of names and the slackers were
conspicuous by their absence.
And the ladies of the camp are in
no way behind the men, they have or
ganized a Red Cross chapter with a
large charter membership and more
coming in at every meeting. And ev-
cry meeting is a most enthusiastic af-
fair. The ladies of the camp can al
ways be counted on to do their best
and make a success of any public or
patriotic occasion. And that the wom-
on and children of the camn are real