Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-11-12
THE BULLFROG
MINING DISTRICT
BullfrOg COmpany'S Claims
Opening Up Well.
Shipping Ore Opened Up in Several
Places. AmargOSa POStOffice
Now Established.

Every new arrival from the Bull
frog mining district brings back
glowing reports of its great poten-
tialities, both on account OF It's i'm
meuse lodges and the good surface
values which increase at depth.
The Bullfrog Mining company of
which II. n Clark is general man
ager, is now working on the Ladd
Mountain, Benson and Indian Springs
groups, and in all about sixteen men
are employed; much OF this is loca-
tion work and surface prospecting
which has disclosed some good values
and there now at least six places
from which shipping ore can be ex-
tracted, On the Ladd Mountain
group a shaft is being sunk ON the
immense vein from 300 to 800 feet
wide, the surface assays of which ran
from $40 to $435 per ton, and at a
depth Of a few feet free gold is show
ing through the rock. The company
has three camps with blacksmith
shops and full equipment, it is also
building an assay Office, the outfit for
which is on the ground and will be in
charge OF w H. Brysou.
At the original Bullfrog mine
shaft is down ten feet IN very good
ore and at Bell a. Jones claims the
shaft is down eight feet and speci.
men ore hanging together with gold
has been extracted, and there are
many other fine prospects.
There are fully 800 men in the dis
trict, most of whom are engaged on
location work. AT Amargosa over
1000 lots have been sold and some
have advanced to 5000 offered. There
are from thirty-tive to forty tent
buildings, including three stores, four
saloons, two feed corrals, restaurants
and lodging houses, all of which are
doing good business, as there are
enough people going in from Gold.
field to justify daily stage, besides
other arrivals from the south. Hum
boldt Gates recently bought three
lots on which to build an hotel and
also intends investing in mining prop
erty. Hay and grain, fresh vegeta-
bles, apples, grapes, pears, chickens
and turkeys are being brought in
from Parumph valley, and the first
load of lumber from the sawmil there
will arrive next week. f. b. Stock
ton is also putting up an assay Office
at Amargosa.
At the Goss ranch nine miles dis
tant men are working on the spring,
which at point 800 feet above the
townsite, is running from thirty to
fifty inches Of water, which will be
piped to Amargosa Fuel and mining
timbers are obtained in abundance
ten miles from the town, while one
and half miles distant mountain
Of volcanic building stone which can
be sawn out has been discovered, and
stone buildings are already projected
On the road to Bullfrog and twenty
miles from it Carl Young has pur-
chased the store, eating house and
corral at Thorpes quartz mill and is
putting in fine stock of goods. He
is also building a tent restaurant
5Oxl0O in Amargosa. me road from
Goldfeld has been greatly short
ened so that a stage can make the
trip in day.
Papers have just been received in
Tonopah from Washington establish
ing postofTice at Amargosa, which
will be opened at once with G w
l4add as postmaster, telephone and
telegraph line from Goldfield is also