The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1904-11-25

district by the wonderful gold discover
les made on the property Of the Bull
frog Mining company of Nevada, stu
ated on Ladd mountain, in the center
Of the district. Although the owners
of this company made no effort to pub
lish the facts of their great discovery it
soon leaked out through mining men
and experts who examined their prop
erty. Mr.. Badgett, superintendent OF
the Montsna-T onopah company; Mr..
Ely, a capitalist of Cleveland, Ohio; and
Kenneth jackson. a leading attorney of
Tonopah, Nevada, while visiting the dis
trict, thoroughly examined the property
of the Bullfrog Mining company, and for
the first time gave out to the public the
facts Of it's wealth. They re-
ported the main ledge to be six hun
hundred feet wide and to give an aver
age assay for seventy-five feet across the
vein formation of $79 per ton, with
stringers which would assay into the
thousands. Even after this report by
men Of such known standing, the mining
| men of Tonopah and Goldfeld still
doubted the truth. About the 23rd Of
| October the San Francisco Stock and
| Exchange Board commenced to realize
the Importance. of the district and for
its own information sent to the district
Senator w. G. R~alston, a prominent
| mining engineer of California. Mr..
Ralston was given every opportunity to
thoroughly examine the properties of the
Bullfrog Mining company and all other
properties in the district. and after a
complete and exhaustive examination
made such a glowing report Of the rich
| ness of the immense bodies of ore in the
district hat even the most skeptical
mining men became excited. Since
then hundreds of prospectors, miners,
capitalists and experts have been flock
ing to the district; rich discoveries Of
gold have been of daily occurrence, I'M
til now the gold belt is known to be
several miles square.
The most startling discovery of the
camp, since the discovery of the Bull
frog Mining company, has just been
made by l.. V. Lonsway, who while
prospecting on the southeast extension
of the Bullfrog Mining company's
claims discovered a vein $50 feet wide,
all carrying good values, and with a pay
axrn,l, - thn lalUn frn,n civ RI fuapfy
inches wide assaying thousands of dol
lars to the ton in gold, while the entire
ledge is well mineralized. Mr.. Ions
way was in Goldfeld last week and had
in his possession specimens of the rock
that are nearly half gold. This ledge,
Judging from its strike, size and other
characteristics, is unquestionably the
southeast extension of the main vein or
ledge of the Bullfrog Mining company.
This camp is situated about sixty-five
miles. southeast of Goldield and is evil
IDENTIFY of the same mineral belt. The
Tonopah 4 Tidewater railroad has been
graded within forty miles Of the property
of the. ::BullfrogA Mining company, and
when completed will pass through the
center of the district. The Tonopah
railroad is now extending to Goldtield,
and unq~uestionably will be further K
tended to the Bullfrog Mining District.
The supply of water is greater than
found anywhere else in the desert
country.
The Amargosa river flows directly
through the district and will supply suf-
icent water to operate mills of several
thousand stamps capacity. This water
is pure and absolutely free of alkali.
The Bullfrog Mining company will OBJ
tain its supply of water from springs sit
uated five or six hundred feet higher
than the mines, and sufficient water will
be brought down to the mines to oper-
ate a 2OO-stamp mill that the company
is arranging to install.
About ten miles distant from the Bull
frog Mining company's property, or, in
other words, from the center of the dis
trict, good mining timbers in abundance
can be found in the Grapevine range of
mountains.
Development.
The camp is too new to expect any ex-
%tensive development. Hundreds of
prospectors are sinking shafts and driv-
ing tunnels on various gold veins
throughout the district. Ben Hazelton,
on his group of claims, has about ten
men at work sinking a shaft and sacking
high grade ore. Bell, Jones& Hennessy,
on their claims adjoining the Ladd