The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-05-06
Abounds in High Grade Gold
and Silver Ore.
Claim Grabbers Keep
ing the District Back-Little
Ready Work for the Miners.


April 20 to the Mining and Scientific
Press. and it was printed in that journal
of April 80:
Bullfrog district is situated in Nye
County, in the southern portion Of the
State of Nevada. 1t can be reached via
Tonopah and Goldfield, or from Los
Vegas, a station on w. A. Clark's new
railroad which runs from Los Angeles,
Gal. to Salt Lake City. Utah.
The district is on a p u of the Grape
vine range of mountains through which
courses the Amargosa river, whose bed
is dry for the greater part of its length.
Water can easily be obtained, however,
by digging down a few feet, and at in
tervals a small stream can be seen fiow-
ing. but it is soon swallowed up by the
dry and greedy sands.
There are four so-called towns in the
district-Bullfrog, Gold Center. Beatty
(Which is the postoffice), and Rhyolite,
near which are grouped the principal
mines discovered up to the present.
The Original Bullfrog.
The Original Bullfrog mine, which
gave its name to the district, is about 3
miles west of the town of Rhyolite it
is a "blow out" of quartz between lime
stones and porphyry rising up into a small
knoll at the base of the main range hav-
Ing almost the appearance of a small
butte rising directly out of the plain.
1t is apparently about 800 feet in length,
200 feet in width, and IS feet in height
above the surface at it's base. A drift
has been run into this little knoll of
quartz 100 or more feet and four cross
cuts from this main opening show the
quartz body to be scanned with horizon
tai and vertical strata of a g~reenish,
blush colored ore resembling both ma
lachite and lapis lazuli. 1t is called by
some bromide of silver, but regardless
of its exact name there is no mistake to
be made in calling it high-grade ore.
The purple-bluish mineral is huorspar.
The ore strata are from / inch to 6
inches in thickness, iss-crossing" in
many places. and forming a network.
Free gold is easily discernible to the
naked eye in the greater portion of
these greenish-colored streaks; the
statement made by the management
that a shipment of 10 tons of assorted
ore yielded in the neighborhood of $1,000
per ton in gold and silver can be readily
believed, and the additional claim made
that the ore body for so feet in width
will average $50 per ton does not seem
unreasonable.
High Grade Gold and Silver Ore.
The Denver. Montana Bullfrog and
Tonopah- Bullfrog. the National Bank
and Shoshone mining claims. the latter
owned by E. A. Montgomery. are with
in a stones throw of the town of Rhyo-
lite. All of these properties show high
grade gold and silver ore. The Sho
shone or Montgomery claim. situated
on the divide between the towns of
Beatty and Rhyolite, is a porphyry dixie
between altered rhyolite and ~trachyte
width, as disclosed by a cross-cut tun-
mel driven into it. and shows good ore
its entire length. A width of 81 feet of
this ore is said to average 5000 per ton
in gold and silver. Ore is being sacked
and shipped to the smelter via Los
Vegas as fast as teams can be engaged.
A Word to the PrOspectOr.
The miner who comes into this sec
ton to prospect for or to purchase
mines must not expect to find regular
fissure veins" There are no groupings
of pay quartz with regular walls, clay
gouges. slickensides, etc. The base of
the mountain chain here is limestone
through which the rhyolite peaks have
been pushed upwards ; fianking these
craggy crests aud ridges, spires and
minarets of black and chocolate hued
rhyolite, are bikes and bands of white
porphyry and altered ~trachyte, coursing
north and dipping to the east. From a
superficial point of view the geology of
the district does not seem at all COM
pick. and judging from the mines al
ready discovered more will be found in
the shape of ore chimneys capped over.
but near the contact of the clay por.
phyries with dissimilar formations.
No Ready Work for Miners.
From the excellent showing so far
made here it is surprising to find SO
little actual mining work z ing on.
Not over so miners are employed in all
the mines in this neighborhood and
miners in search of employment will be.
disappointed if they come here expect
ing to find ready work at the present