Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-11-19
The BULLFROG
MINING STRIC
Great Activity Throughout
the Entire Section.
Some Big Values from the Original
Discovery CIaims-'-AmargOSa
Lots in Great Demand.

gTed SurldCe SuOWluSS Ill Ino Dun {
Trog district and its wonderful future
possibilities. Humboldt Gates who I
leaving Alaska has seen many
camps on both American con. s
admits that none have APP
pealed so strongly to him as this and
he is now preparing to return there
soon as possible and take an &C
tive interest in the development of
some claims he has acquired and also
build a stone hotel at Amargosa.
Lots at this townsite have been in
such demand by Tonopah residents
for speculative purposes that the
sale has been stopped, Clark, Benson
& Ladd preferring to sell them to
those who will be actual residents
and help build up the town and the
district.
Already the establishment Of a
bank and newspaper is projected and
new discoveries are attracting the
attention of operators. DR.. l.. E.
Benson and w. G. Ladd returned to
Amargosa this week with necessary
supplies, etc, and the development
of the Bullfrog mining companies
properties will be pushed with all
possible speed. Several applications
for leases on these claims have been
made, but the company having plenty
of cash in the treasury have decided
not to grant any. The shares of this
company are now quoted on the San
Francisco Exchange at 81 cents.
The initial discoveries and locations
made by SHORTY Harris have been
incorporated in Goldfield as the Orig
inal Bullfrog Mines Syndicate owning
three claims and two mill sites and
having a capital of 81, 600, 900 divided
into one million shares Of 81 each with
three hundred thousand placed in the
t treasury. j. w. McGalliard Of Gold
( field is president, f, G. Carlson OF
2 San Francisco vice president and
Milton NJ. Detch of Goldfald secre-
G tary and treasurer. The company
S is now sinking q shaft on a vein eighty
? feet wide and average samples across
the bottom at a depth Of fourteen
: feet assayed 37,41 OF gold and lao. 81
OF silver or 1918, SO per ton. The
average of the surface OF the ven
e across eighty feet was "a o. gold anC
r 1.76 OF silver or $17.89 per ton
It Other samples from different part
Of this vein assayed 10. 10 OF gold
1852 OF silver or $3O4,8l 1.l2 o
gold, 302.0 90 OF silver or $l73. 40
l46. % OF gold, 1919 OF silver o
= $3OS5. So; 26. 81. o gold, 272.75 OF sill
:, yer or $666 81; "a. So OF gold, 1888
: OF silver or 1863. SO; "a, so OF gold
AZ 80 OF silver or $l11l.4O per ton
The ore is a white quartz staine'
: with silver bromides the gold beinI
free and the development Of thes
properties is now progressing.
The district is remarkable for tn
- Investigation of the ores, some
which look dead and barren, givin
remarkable results in the pan.
On Thursday Charles Maunder lei
OF Tonopah on behalf Of a local synd
Id cate comprising j. L. Butler, judy
to Kenneth Jackson, W. H. Routledg'
lis Charles Maunder and others to il
spect six claims owned by Lynch an
as Mcguire, and now under option
ke the syndicate. These claims ado
OF on the north the Keen Wonder mil
lily which was recently sold to j. r. De
amar for $3.50, 900, and samples fro
the surface ~outcroppings Of the veil
assayed from $25 to 1864 per ton
gold. This syndicate also has tv
- prospecting outfits in that distri
~ which have located some very Va
liable claims. 1t is stated OF reliab
:" authority that there are fully 8
people in the district, prospectiI
and doing location work, and parti
arrive daily from Caliente and 9th
" points south as well as west, while
accommodate the travel from Tor
1t- pah and Goldfeld a stage line "
at shortly be started from the latt
IN oo ,,b;ob mill oar