Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-20
GoLDFIELD MINING NEWS.


The postoaice department is adyer.
Using for sealed bids for "a mail route
between Goldhcld and Ida, % distance
OF tweniy-c8hl miles, says the Cold
! held Review Bidders are asked 10
give terms for d semi-weekly service.
which Is 10 go into operation on Jan. %,
1905
Work has been suspended on the VIII
son NO 2 lease on the st. Ives which
has been operated the past few months
by Mrs. George ii. Lewis During the
llie OF The lease, which IN about to ex-
plre hy limitation, shaft was sunk to
depth of 70 feet From this point to
the surface and from the drifts about
$1,000 worth of ore was stopped out and
shipped,
Word comes from Bun Frog Of a
strike last Friday one mile southwest
of the original Bull Frog mine. The
vein Is six feet Wide and the samples
average 500. One glIttering specimen
ossayed $4,000. There are four claims
in the group surrounding the discovery
and The Owliers are Joseph Simpson,
Milton NJ petch, William Stockton aud
William Frey
During thehseek quite stampede has
taken place nom The Bun Frog country
IN the direction Of Ash Meadows. where
"a strike OF fabulous richness Is said to
| have been made. A number OF people
from this district have also procured
| outfits ana started for the new ,ioI
cOnda, Some OF the ore brought into
Bun Frog is said TO be almost alive
with gold The location Of the repori-
ed find Is twelve miles north OF Ash
Meadows and thirty south Of Bul
Frog
saturday Sunday ana Monday not
less than twenty prospecting parties
outlitted at Columbia Tor trips 10 the
southern camps Some were bound for
Gold Crater Others for Bull Frog ana
some for Death Valley. They were
well provided with grub" blankets
and horse feed, ana all contemplated
staying out Tor several months Sys-
tematically ;he deserts of southern Ne
y8da are being prospected AND Il viii
NOT be long before that section viii be
lDe scene of some of the greatest min
lug activities in the world.
Ihe lease OF Messrs Patrick Jones'
Kendall ana Reilly ON the January
claim eNfircs ON the 2nd OF next MONTH
and they are making AN kinds Of haste
in extracting ore before the arrival
of that date They have an extra
force OF men at work and every
available srot in the mine down 10 the
23)-foot level has Cos force of miners at
work stopping ont the better grade OF
ore By jhc time the lessees have com.
plotcd theII work 10 Is estimated that
they VIII have taken out Of the mine
not less Than $4,000 worth Of ore
OF This amount probably 40 per cent
has boon forwarded TO the shelters
Tho balance lies On the dumps az the
mines ANA WIN probably rest there un-
tIl such time as IL SIS possible 20 mill Il
40 home.
work Us being pushed as rapidly as
possible m The LOftus-DaWs-M Wayne
lease ON me sandstone and One Sand
storm ridge b BOW the busiest spot In
One entire district The upper ledge
Us noW eighteen fpet wide and the VAL
u.s continue to hold their own, There
3 u0N about 300 tons Of ore on the
dumps which ms being screened and
r1N Inv One ore house. The FIRST ship
mant SIN De made ON the -0th uud 10
v.l s0 out under guaM THE sampling
udtg,es thlt Jhe highest grade viii
gu about So 900 "a ton while the second
grade WilI average $1,000 ana IL is cal
.uatal ,Eat Ose entire ahpment VIII
average $1,000 "a tom. This Vill De the
iOhc,. rllpme1t, with the exception
of the gga' shipment from the Qddle
Gauugr-uatie'l loIse on tha Kendall