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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-19

AT the caucus of democratic repre-
senfatiyes and senators this afternoon
former Postmaster G. w. Benedict, of
South Norwalk, received twenty votes
for state auditor; James P, Bree, of
New Haven, the present auditor, receiv-
ed one vote Homer S. Wanzer, of New
FAIRFIELD, one vote, and Leslie W. New
berry one vote.
During the caucus Senator McGann
Of New Haven, accused Senator Dono-
van. of Norwalk, of boiling the norni-
nation of Judge A. Heaton Robertson,
Of New Haven, for United States sena-
4np. 5}{aas2
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-31
Sidewalks Nightly
Thronged
Evening Strollers on Tono-
pah's Thoroughfares
People With Money in Their Pockets
Who Stand willing to
Spend IL

1t is impossible to hurry while
walking along the sidewalks of Tono.
pah. Especially after nightfall the
streets are thronged. The mystery
is where do all the people come from.
All along Main street from house line
to curb the walks are crowded. Million
aire mining kings brush elbows with
grimy miners from the lower levels
of the big bonanzas.
The procession to and fro gives the
main thoroughfare an appearance OF
life and animation rarely met with
outside of a metropolis. The people
seem all well supplied with money, as
the constant tinkle Of register bells in
stores and saloons attests to, while
the gaming resorts are thronged and
the play runs high. Tonopsh is evil
IDENTIFY moneyed camp at present, as
it always will be, until the millions OF
dollars lying under Mount Oddie are
all dug out, task that will employ an
army of men for third of a century.
-Tonopah Sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-31
Another Big Strike

Grom Goldheld News. March II. 1oo5)
The poor newspaper man who
rustles for mining news in this sec
tion Of the country is out of luck,
not because it is hard work to get
news, but because there are so many
authentic big strikes that he finds his
vocabulary entirely inadequate to
describe the different ones without
constant repetition.
One of the latest authentic strikes
which now looks as If It would take
second place to none ever made in
Southern Nevada has been made by
Dan Driscoll in the Chloride cliffs,
Funeral range of mountains, fifteen
miles south of Bull Frog and near the
Keane-Wonder mine. The ledge is
contact between schist and lime and
is eight feet wide. Four feet of the
ledge is exceedingly rich there being
scarcely a piece of the ore which does
not show free gold all through IL when
broken open. Not even panning fs
necessary to know that the values go
way up. A twenty pound piece Of the
ore which was brought into town was
literally alive with the yellow metal
and made a handsome specimen. The
shoot is 300 feet long, and as visitor
expressed It, ut LOOKS like a mint"
Tommy Keane, who is one of the pio-
neers, as well as one of the best pros
pectors, is interested in the new find,
and together with e. l.. Fletcher his
longtime partner, will soon incorpor-
ate company to operate and thor
oughly develop the mine and market
the ore.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-31
Back From Bull Frog
A. X. Wheeler Enthusiastic Over Show
ing in That Country

A. X. Wheeler one of the principal
owners in the rich Annex and Con-
solidated mines, has just returned
from two weeks trip in the Bull
Frog country, and is most enthusiasts
tic in regard TO the future of the now
famous camp. Mr.. Wheeler was one
of the pioneers in Goldfield and among
the first to acquire properties and
invest in the Bull Frog when that dis
trict was an unknown quantity in the
mining world. "They were all pros
poets then," said Mr.. Wheeler, "but to-
day the camp is the possessor of some
of the greatest mines in the world that
are only equalled by those of Gold
field and vicinity. The richness and
magnitude of the ore deposits can only
be appreciated by personal inspection,
and would be incredible had not Gold
field first demonstrated that Southern
Nevada is the greatest gold producing
section in the world"
Mr.. Wheeler reports active develop
ment being pushed to the utmost on
the Annex, with a large force of men
at work. A shaft has been sunk on
the Morning Star, one of the COM
pany's group, which pans freely across
the ledge, and General Manager
Schweble, who is in charge of the
company's property, firmly believes
that within the next few weeks he
will catch the lead of the Original Bull
Frog mine, from which the Morning
Star is only 1900 feet distant.
On the Midnight claim, upon which
the first rich discoveries were made,
three distinct leads have been opened
up, exposing big bodies of ore. The
mineral on this claim differs radically
from that found on the Morning Star,
being base and carrying a high per-
centage Of copper, in addition to the
gold and silver values. This is ac-
counted for by the intrusion of an i'm
mense granite dyke, which apparently
divides the two formations and makes
of them two different zones, the Morn
ing Star being in porphyry, whereas
the Midnight is in granite.
Mr.. Wheeler also confirms the re-
port of the strike made some three
weeks ago on the Midnight fraction
and Lone Star claims adjoining the
Annex. The owners of this property
have a shaft down twenty feet that
promises mine Of great value.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-31
ORIGINAL BULL FROG
SHIPMENT

Returns from the shipment of ore
from the Original Bull Frog, which
passed through Goldfield several days
ago en- route to the Western Ore Pur-
chasing Company at Reno, have been
received by Milton M. Detch, ESD.
Accompanying the returns was a check
for $514S.3S in payment for the same.
The samplers returns show that there
was received 13,415 net pounds, which
carried values of 1856 ounces in gold
and 258.95 ounces in silver to the ton,
or total values of $SO8.14 per ton for
about six and one-half tons of ore.
This is surely very gratifying re-
suit and causes favorable comment on
the part of experienced mining men,
who profess to see in the large per-
centage of silver values in the ship
ment evidence of durability and CON
tinuity in the vein from which the
shipment was taken, and they have no
hesitancy in saying that they believe
the Original Bull Frog will make u
big mine.
The company is to have new
manager invthe person of George w.
Peirce of Colorado, a gentleman of
wide experience. Mr.. Peirce began
mining as a boy in Leadyille in 1879
and soon after went to Gilpin county.
Subsequently he became interested in
the sampling and reduction of ores,
achieving an enyiable reputation in
that line. Some years ago he became
part owner and manager of the
famous Golden Fleece mine at Lake
City in Hinsdale county, Colorado,
which in comparatively short time
paid 100000 in dividends. Mr.. Pelrce
brings with him a splendid reputation
fog ability and is known as "pusher."
The company is to be congratulated
ON having secured his services. De-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-31

The main property is that OF the
Bull Frog Mining Company, and from
the showing already made do not be
surprised if at no far distant day its
production from free milling gold ores
exceeds that of any Of the famous
mother lodes of the earlier western
day.
The property consists of ten full
claims situated on Ladd mountain in
the heart of the present known. min
eral zone, together with eight claims
at Indian Springs, four miles distant,
and five on Benson mountain, three
miles away.
The chief discoveries to date (Feb-
ruary y are made in what is termed
the main ledge, which traverses and
outcrops the companys ground on
the Ladd mountain group for dis
tance of 800 feet. This ledge is from
300 to 500 feet in width, and no place
on it's vast surface have paintings
failed to disclose values. These
values, while maintaining a general
uniformity around $500, occasionally
run we'll into the thousands per ton.
While prosecuting development
work on this ledge few weeks ago
a tale seam of some is to 20 inches in
width was opened up, which, under re-
peated sampling, shows an average
value per ton of over one thousand
dollars. This seam is Identical with
the rich tale ore Of the Jumbo mine
at Goldfield, where her greatest and
most persistent values were obtained
Later, few days, while doing loca-
tion work on another group of claims
belonging to the Clark-Benson-Ladd
interests and located about one-half
mile north of the Amargosa townsite,
another and still richer tale deposit
was uncovered. No assays have been
taken from this vein, but its great
values are apparent from the gold
PARTICLES which are visible and with
which it is fairly alive.
Still another ledge of exceedingly
high values was recently found on the
opposite slope of Ladd mountain from
the main ledge. Here in sinking a
location shaft through an andesite
Gaping of two or three feet thickness
a blind ledge was uncovered, the ores
alive with free goG. This develops
an early supposition that the outcrop-
ping lodges or dykes which traverse
almost the entire Ladd mountain are
full of gold values, and this belief,
which is being more and more
strengthened as the ground is being
explored and developed, will, it is be-
lieved, amount TO an established fact
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-31

naked eye. The miner became ex-
cited and worked far into the night.
When he had composed himself suf-
ficiently to see that the darkness Of
night had fallen about him he started
for the spring near which his horses
and camp were left To his horror he
found the animals gone. He was alone
in the middle of great desert, with
a small amount of food and with
water that would in few weeks, for
it was then the middle of summer,
be dried up.
The next morning Breyfogle started
cut on foot He carried a small
amount of food and water, for the heat
of the season would not permit him
to take more. The man staggered on
for day or two and then lost his
senses. When he came to himself he
was In an Indian camp and his horses
were grazing near by. He could not
understand the language of his bene-
factors, but by signs and pictures he
made them understand that he wished
to go to Austin. 1t was several days
before he could begin his Journey for
he had lost his hat in his deirium
and his head had become badly sun
burned
81 HA I
though a man well advanced in years,
he was possessed of great recupera-
tive powers, and in two weeks time
he headed party that went in search
of the El Dorado. The friendly In
dians were found and so was the
spring, but where the mine was from
which he had secured the wonderful
specimens he had shown in Austin
he was unable to determine. The
nightfall, the loss of his horses and
the fever that followed had made him
unable to find the place In which the
treasure lay. That the Indians knew
of the mineral wealth for
which the prospectors were seeking
was shown from the fact that they
would talk to the men freely upon any
subject, but when questioned as to
"the money rock" they became sud
denly silent.
Twice Breyfogle left Austin to find,
if possible, the lost mine, and twice
he returned unsuccessful. In 1866 he
left Nevada for his home in San Jose,
Cal, and year or two later died.
Since then many have tried to locate
the riches that chance blow of the
pick uncovered, only to be hidden for
ever, like the wonderful mine of peg
leg" Smith of Arizona.
By many the tale of Breyfogle was
looked upon as figment of the i'm
agination, the conjuring of a mind af
rected by the loneliness OF the desert,
but the recent discoveries in this re-
yion give the tale of the prospector
not only the aspect of possibility but
credence.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-31

A two-million dollar cor
poration has just been formed
by representative Los Angeles
men, to be known as the Bull
Frog -Compound-G o / d fie Id
Mining Co. This company has
secured sixty acres of the cream
of Bull Frog, and are to be COLI
graduated upon their foresight
in getting into this coming
camp on the ground floor.
Another big thing in favor
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-31
NEW TOWN OF
BULL FROG

AMARGOSA, March 9.-This is the
last message for publication that will
go out under date of the name of the
town at the head of this telegram.
Amargosa is in the passing. AS these
words are spoken scores of people
about the place are busily engaged in
tearing down houses and tents pre-
paratory for their removal to the new
town of Bull Frog The new town Is
located at the big wash at the mouth
of the draw between Ladd mountain
and Bell and Jones hill and includes
in it's area the old townsite of Bo-
nanza.
II. Fl. Clark, the founder of Amar-
gosa. is at the head of the new town
site company. All people owning lots
in Amargosa are to have lots given
them in Bull Frog and in most cases
Mr.. Clark is paying all the expenses
incidental to the removal of houses
and tents. The telephone Office is to
be removed at once from Amargosa
to Bull Frog. The Office at this place
will be abandoned tomorrow.
A new hotel, having a capacity of 40
rooms, is to be erected at once at Bull
Frog. Office furniture and fixtures for
a banking institution have been Or
dered. The contract for the building
will be let Immediately. Water for
the new town is to come from Boss
springs. A force of engineers and
number of workmen have been busily
engaged for some days in locating the
pipe line and developing the water
supply. Chief Engineer Philbrick
states a sufficient flow of water is now
assured to supply city of $4,000 in
habitants. Mr.. Clark has made ar
rangements with the auto line, which
Is shortly to be put in service between
Goldfield and this district, to have the
southern terminal established at Bull
Frog.-Goldfeld News.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-31
velopment work on the property is to
be pushed to the very limit.-Goldfield
News
Goldfeld, Nevada
Sacking Ore from the Red Top. Work
on Goldfield Ore Resumed

The following article is from the
Los Angeles Mining Review of March
IL:
The following items are from the
Goldfield Review:
Work on Vernal No. 2 is being
pushed with considerable vigor. The
shaft has reached depth of seventy.
five feet and prosecuting to the north
and south was begun a few days ago.
On the south cut an assay was had
which gave $35, and the one to the
north resulted in SIS assay.
After being idle for several weeks,
Ridge & Curtis have resumed work
on the Goldfleld Oro, formerly the Mid
night, located on the east side Of Col
umbia mountain. The shaft is down
110 feet with a rs foot crosscut to the
north.
The work of sacking on the Red
Top continues, but, according to Capt.
Menardi, it will not be made a special
feature for some time. The work of
crosscutting from the new shaft is be-
ing hurried forward, and when the
ledge from which the ore is being
taken from the old shaft is encoun-
tered it will be hoisted from the new
double compartment shaft. There
are now about 200 sacks of high grade
shipping ore on the dump Of the old
shaft, but shipment will not be made
for some time. The value of the ore
being sacked runs from $19O to $4OO
per ton.
The Florence mine continues to hold
it's reputation as great producer of
rich shipping ore, When the owners
took possession of the property after
the leases had expired they kept right
on taking out ore just as though moth
ing had happened. During the month
just passed five big shipments were
made.
BULL FROG
Ill It's loou6 VI ldoJ WCSh luS GOlu-
field Review says
A small sized sensation was created
among the mining men of Columbia
and Goldfield on Monday when the
first shipment of ore from the Original
Bull Frog mine arrived and passed
through camp. In order that every
body might be made aware Of that
most important fact when the wagons
containing the ore passed through
the towns string band was placed
on the forward wagon to dispense
music and attract the attention of the
populace. That the public might not
be misled banner had been painted
and placed on the forward wagon,
which bore the following inscription:
First shipment of ore from the
Original Bull Frog mine, Valuation,
$3640.S0 per ton Owned by the Orig
inal Bull Frog Mines Syndicate Com
pany."
The ore was considered so valuable
that it was deemed best TO send two
shotgun messengers with it, and their
presence ON the wagons added much
to the interest manifested by the
crowd.
The shipment was the first from the
district. and il required three teams
to haul it, The assay value of the
ore was $S6,40S, and there was some
thing like ten tons in the shipment,
which was sent to the Reno reduction
works.
The ore was taken from a shaft
which is now only fifty-two feet deep,
and which has carried shipping values
almost from the grass roots. The
owner of this property the Original
Bull Frog Mines Syndicate Company,
has been pushing the work of late and
intends to have another shipment
ready within very short time.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-31

before no far off day, Indeed, today
these great ledges are pronounced by
the mining experts and engineers who
have been over them the greatest de.
posits of free milling gold ore ever
discovered.
This property was located in the
early part Of last September by II. II.
Clark, l.. E. Benson and G. W. Ladd
who were among the first on the
ground to make locations.
Bull Frog will ultimately become a
big milling proposition. as the ore
bodies are prodigious and carry suf-
ficient values to make milling ex-
tremely profitable. The Santa Fe has
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-31
RICH BULL FROG STRIKE

At a depth of 65 feet in a shaft on
the Bull Frog Mining Company of
Nevada's property on Ladd mountain
a black sulphide ore was encountered
which assays as high as $4,000 per ton
and averages well into the hundreds.
Manager Clark had received no
further particulars, but it looks as If
it was decidedly the most important
strike yet made on the property
Goldfield News, March "a.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-31
Los Angeles Capital
Is Now Invading Bull Frog

of tn e Bull Frog-Compound-
Goldfe1d Co. is the fact of
their having two full claims
of twenty acres, each i'll the
Goldheld District.
1t is understood that the
Southwestern Securities Co..
of Los Angeles is financing
the deal. This concern has
been very successful in their
Goldfeld operations, and has
a large and growing following.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-31
Bull Frog
The New and Wonderful Min
ing Camp Of Nevada
By w. E. Lawson in Profit and Lost

already surveyed a line into the dis
trlct from Ivanpah, and it is Believed
construction work will be started dur
ing the coming spring months. This
will give the district cheap oil for
their power, and with an abundance
Of water and timbering the develop
ment and growth Of the whole district
will progress with extreme rapidity.
The Santa Fe is not the only line
that is pushing into this hitherto I'm.
inhabited country. The Clark road,
which is to connect Salt Lake and Los
Angeles. will pass near the new dis
trict and run lateral line into this
territory. "Borax" Smith, the nitrate
king, who practically owns Death
valley, is also surveying line into
this country from his mines in the
desolate valley, and will, it is believed,
make an attempt to dispose of HIS in
terests to one of the greater lines.
From Tonopah the Tonopah railroad
will soon be built to Goldfield, and
from there the indications are will be
continued southwark. 1t is a common
ly accepted belief that this line will
ultimately pass into the hands of the
Southern Pacific.
That the people who have entered
ho ri n foit
in the country is shown by the num-
Der of small townsites that have been
laid out, of which Amargosa is by far
the most promising. This place, laid
out by Clark, Benson & Ladd, has al
ready 400 inhabitants. So far there
have been but one or two frame dwell
ings erected, but business has not
been allowed to lag, as tents of vari-
Gus shapes and sizes have been put upI
and mercantile houses, saloons and the
different industries incident to a new
mining town are all doing business
and the merchants are apparently
pleased with the outlook. Other towns
claim to havl promising features as
well as Amargosa.
The climate of this region is much
milder than at Tonopah and Goldfield. |
This is not only because it is nearly
200 miles to the south of these places,
but the altitude is much less. The
two places that have already devel-
oped into permanent mining camps
are 5000 feet above the level of the
sea. The Bull Frog district is but
half of this, and long after the nights
have turned cold in the northern part
of Nye county this region is basking
In Indian summer. Wood and water,
the lack of which have kept the south.
ern part of Nevada from developing
in the years that have past, are found
here in greater plentifulness, except
where the country impinges upon
Death valley, than to the north. These
two things promise to assist the Bull
Frog country in developing with great
rapidity during the next few years.
1t is commonly held by the miners
and prospectors that somewhere in
the region of which this article treats |
is located what is known as the Lost
Breyfogle NINE" Breyfogle was
miner, who left Austin, New, in the
early '6Os on lone prospecting trip.
He travelled southwark and made such
as the character of the
country led him to believe would be |
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-31
Sensational Reports
Continue

The wonderful showings being made
in the Bull Frog district are probably
causing more excitement than ever
known in district of its age. Seldom
day passes that news of another
big strike does not reach here.
The district at the present time
swarms with prospectors and the as
sayers are kept busy day and night.
AT the town of Amargosa there is
great excitement over the fact that
the town company has commenced
actual construction of the water sys-
tenn that will supply the town with
an abundance of spring water. The
demand for lots has been so great
that the company has been obliged to
withdraw all lots from sale until they
can check up, and have announced
that lots would be for sale at Amar-
gosa only on March 2. This CON-
pany is composed of men who "do
things" and it is predicted that "his-
tory will repeat" and another Gold
field will be at Amargosa within one
year.
Since the completion of the tele-
phone line to this place the town has
taken on new life. Mining men are
found here from all parts of the great
district to do business, and when
once they arrive are not loath to re-
main. Strangers are pouring in at a
not To
they are more than pleased with what
they see. Eyes quite naturally first
turn to the bonanza after which the
camp is named, and all are delighted
to learn that the Bull Frog is getting
bigger and better with every shot
fired. The high grade streak shows
no signs of diminishing, and the pile
of sacked ore is sight for sore eyes.
B, r. Hemenway one of the best
known mining experts in the country
who has thoroughly examined the dis,
trict says that he considers the prop.
erty of the Bull Frog Mining Company
on Ladd mountain the making of the
greatest mine in the world, and while
he had been told by many of the great
wealth exposed he had no conception
OF its immensity until he saw it him.
self He also has only good words
for all the mines in the district and
predicts that it will make a great
mining camp.
Manager Clark of the Bull Frog
Mining Company informs MS that he
has just received word that carload
of rails, steel, mining cars, etc, has
just arrived and that now work can
be done much more expeditiously.
A bank will be opened in Amargosa
in few days. the supplies having
all been ordered.
The Amargosa Townsite and Water
Company has purchased the interests
of the former owners in the townsite
and in the water rights and have in
corporated under the above name. The
officers of the new company are: IL
II. Clark, president; l.. E. Benson,
vice president; Key Pittman, secretary
and treasurer Messrs. Clark and
Pittman are at Amargosa to attend To
matters pertaining To the townsite and
to rush the completion of the water
system and the interests of the Bull
Frog Mining Company.