Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-07-01
LATE NEWS
FROM BULLFROG
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Wakes q
Rich shipment--New Forma-
ton Encountered i'm the
National Bank Mine.

Al correspondent Of the salt Lake
Herald. writing from Rhyolite, in
the Bulfrog district, gises the fol
lowing interesting facts anent that
rich section
IAN Rhyoliie turned out today to
give a rousing send of to the freight.
ers bearing a consignment Of sixty
tons ~ ore from the great Mont
pomery-Shoshone mine. The con
sipnment is bound for Salt Lake
smelters. via Tonopah and Reno.
Three great freight outfits,
drawn by twenty horses each, are
carrying this great amount Of ex-
tremelg rich ore across the desert,
closely guarded By armed men.
Grab samples from any portion Of
any sack will pan fine values in gold,
and it is necessary in sacking a por-
ton Of the rich tale to use double
thicknesses Of canvass, some of the
ore being so finely divided
THE Shoshone management de-
clares that only second and third
grade ore is shipped at this time. as
transportation facilities T. not
favorable at present to the hauling
OF such high grade ore, but it is said
by persons in a position to know that
twelve tons Of the present shipment
will run in value from 81 900 to 81. 900
the balance ranging from 5000 to
$500. The present consignment will
be sampled in Reno, M should ar
rive in Salt Lake before two weeks
have elapsed.
"AIl Rhyolite is banking heavily
upon this shipment from the Sho-
shone. as the immense values of Bull
frog mines and their tremendous
capabilities will be clearly demon.
strated to the outside world.
Were the facilities for transport
ing ore out Of this district more
favorable, there would be many mines
represented at the present time ID
Salt Lake shelters. On the great
Bonanza, or Gibraltar mountains, are
several properties capable Of sending
very rich ore out, but the owners dc
not desire to pay the UNREASONABLE
high rates and undergo the risks in
eident to a long and tedious deser.
drive. From Rhyolite TO Goldfeld
with such o load as it would require
to justify the trip, it would take al
most a weeks time alone; none o
the properties being pressed 70.
funds, it IS not considered advisabl,
under present conditions to ship.
On the Gibraltar Mines Syndi
cate Equitable group on Bonanzi
mountain there is shipping ore boil
in the tunnel aud on ledge No. 4, a
which latter place free gold ore /
found in sufficient quantity 10 pa
big money from the surface.
ION the Great Eastern propert,
adjoining the Equitable, recent,
purchased by John McKaue, shippin.
ore at a forty foot depth was en-
%conntered som time ago. ANY o
the many magnificent Lodges cutting
the top or eastern slope Of Bonanz;
mountain present shipping PROPOSE
tons with depth, often times from
the very surface, and without ex
ceptlon they are milling proposition
from the surface down, and a millin,
proposition in the great Bullfro,
district is ordinarily an excellen
high. grade subject where all til
conditions for handling aud treat
ment are complete.
Ore less than 800 per ton valu
in gold is not igh.grade in Nevada
II Is called milling ore, which seem
almost sacrilegious in sentiment whe
1T IS remembered how ridiculousl
low many outside propositions are, i
the Treadwell mine Of Alaska. fr
instance
On the Tramp property on b,
nanza mountain, and the adioinin
properties, such rs the Eclipse an
Denver, shipping ore is found. an
from the latter property, nor a,
vanced in development work. ore bs
already been shipped.
"A formation new to the Bnllfro
mining district was encountered
the shaft Of the Shoshone Nation,
Bank property today, and has Sc
the experts of Rhyolite to specula.