The San Francisco call., 1905-08-11
COMSHOCK DAYS
TO Be REVIVED
Boom T redicted for BuIIfrog
Mining When Two Rail
roads Are Completed.
GREAT ELECTRIC POWER
California Rivers Running Waste
TO Distant Seas HarneSssd
for Nevada Hines.

-The first news from Bullfrog when
the warm wave has spent itself will be
tle signal for Cue OF the biggest gold
mining settlements since the days Of
the Comsrock.' declared G. c. Rice. the
New York newspaper correspondent,
now located in GoldfeId. at the St
Francis yesterday They apparent
IL have the mines and the men of sub
stance at BullfrOg 10 make that Won
derfuliE mineraIized country a quick
producer Of sensational quantities Of
high grade ore
THE broad-GaUge railroad from To-
uOUah TO COlG6eld . miles long will
Doe iu operation September /. Immedi-
ately on its completion, the officials Of
the Toucpah road assure me. the build
ing Of the road from Goldfeld to Bull
frog VIII commence. It is 4 matter Of
70 miles only. and as there are no prob
lens of engineering TO be solved il is
expected the road viii be completed by
the first Of the year.
I'm addition. q railroad is being
graded at this moment from Las Vegas.
on the south, TO Bullfrog. a distance of
125 miles. It viii be an extension Of
the san Pedro road and viii connect
salt Lake CITY and Los Angeles with
the great Nevada mineral belt There
are cities Of good size that will envy
the town Of BUllfrOg and the mines that
surround it for its railway facilities
when these roads are constructed.
There are no less than three cleo
trio power companies now building into
BullfrOg. Across the California line, 80
or 100 miles away, there are rushing.
turbulent streams and rivers, running
waste. Water and power there; gold
and no power in BullfrOg. The natural
result is coming in the compensating
exchange, with electricity as q medium.
What this means TO BullfrOg is be-
vond estimation. for II insures the pro-
ftable handling Of ores carrying values
Of SO per ton upward. Until the pres
ent the mines have been unable to han
die any but the high grade shipping
ores the rich mineral products that pay
far and beyond the high cost of trans
portation, by mule team and railroad,
70 distant mills and smelters.
Within q few months all OF this will
be changed. The transformation will
be complete and sudden. Then, unless
the law Of cause and effect is found to
work inversely, Nevada viii witness a
mining boom In BullfrOg that viii put
IN the shade those that Tonopah and
GoldfeId enjoyed in their first heyday."
NIr. Rice is Of the opinion that as
many miners are at work in Bullfrog as
IN GOldfeld. and that while the sensa-
tional values found in the Goldleld
mines will not be found so prevalent in
lasting as Cripple Creek and Leadville.
T~0r7ense bodies Of low grade ore are
disclosed on Ladd Mountain, Bonanza
Mountain and Montgomery Mountain
aIl within n mile Of the booming town
az P1.lifrog. and well posted mining en-
ayireers who have examined the coun-
trv seem a unit that Bullfrog mining
IS a proposition Of Quarrying and mill
ing only IN the early days OF Gold
field. not quite two years ago, town lots
were selling at $50 each thal since na We
sold as high as $4,000. and Mr.. Rice says
history viii repeat itself in Bulifrog-
re predicts real estate as well as a
mining boom for the new country