The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-11

perts declare Bullfrog will astound the
world when development work has pro-
ceeded a little farther, and that no
camp in modern history gave such indi-
cations of the presence of great ore
bodies at so early stage of the devel-
opmeut work
The best mining engineers of the
country have been located in the Bull
frog district for the past month and the
big deals that are now of daily occur
renee are apparently the result of their
favorable reports
James Farrell, one of the mine op-
orators of Park City, Utah, has pur-
chased lS5 acres on Bonanza mountain
for himself and partners. including W.
Y Rice and ex-United States Senator
Kearns- Farrell, Rice and Kearns have
just formed a new giant company called
the Gibraltar Mines Syndicate to op-
crate the new properties.
Exaggeration Is impossible.
Mr.. Farrell. before leaving Goldfeld
on his way back 10 Salt Lake City,
said:
You go into new mining camp and
you always expect 10 hear reports of
rich strikes and great values. and. as a
rule, when you come to trace them
down not one-fOurth is found to be true.
In the BullfrOg district IL is very diff
feTent- Nothing that l have read of
the country has done justice to it. 1t is
impossible to exaggerate the surface in
dicatiOns there. I went down to Bull
frog at the request of J. H Shockley,
the noted mining engineer. Mr.. Shock
ley has been examining properties in
Africa. Arizona. Utah, California and
Montana for the past several years,
and he has been turning them down
one after the other. / have always
considered him ultra-conservative, and
Gent to interest me i'm BullfrOg l
thought the trip worth making, but at
that I was not a bit overconfdent- Mr..
ShOckley told me that if I would go
down there he would show me more
gold on the surface than I ever saw in
mining camp, and he has certainly
done So
Many Veins, All Rich.
ION Bonanza mountain there are
half a dozen or more well defined veins
and every one carries values. and rich
values. Every vein shows free gold. or
rock that viii pan gold I do not often
get enthUsed over new prospects and
new mines. but I frankly admit | never
saw anything like this I made a pan
ming from a 300-fOot ledge on the Tramp
claim on Bonanza mountain. and II was
the biggest panning 7 ever saw IN my
life The pannlng was made from rock
taken from an entirely new spot at a
point within 200 feet of the side line and
SEQ feet from the end line of the Equi-
table group. We had perhaps two hand
fuIs of dirt. pounded it up in a mortar
and took out the coarse pieces of rock
because we were IL hurry. The
quartz as large as peas we threw away
The gold was very fine, and. as I said.
it made the biggest panniug l ever saw
The older this camp is the more eX-
element there will be. It is simply
one of those kinds of country that no
matter whether your father. mother,
brother. wife or any one else wants to
invest in it and asks advice. you have
simply got to tell them to go ahead
and get in. 1t does not look ike a man
can lose down there
zone of the things that impressed
me most was the regularity of the
veins on Bonanza mountain. On all
the claims I noticed the veins run the
same way. They run as straight as a
gun barrel Veins like these do not stop
short as though they had been cut off
with a knife This country looks better
to me than Park City ever did. You
viii get more values in one ton of
quartz on Bonanza mountain and Mont
EomeTy mountain than you viii get in
five of Park City's. When you strike
ore bodies in BUllfTOg you have i'm
mense values at once. In Park City.
where the mines are making fortunes
for their owners, there is "A lot of low
grade stuff to be contended with