The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-08-18
PLENTY OF WATER.
Bullfrog Now Has Ample Supply for
All Purposes.

Bullfrog celebrated the completion
of the new water works system in
something like the way Goidfeld will
welcome the completion of the new
railway in y few weeks. The Bullfrog
Miner has the following to say on the
subject:
The person who never lived on the
desert, where running streams are al
most as scarce as hens teeth and
where spring and water holes are
harder to find than gold mines; where
danger and death always turks in the
shadow of the traveller who is reckless
or imprudent enough not to make the
item of water the all important n
on his list: where water is packed in
barrels and on burros distances of
from l to 100 miles, and where a barrel
of water costs as much as a sack of
the best -four does in most places
Such a person can hardly be expect
ed to appreciate the Importance of the
event which occurred in Bullfrog at
.1l:5O o'clock last Saturday night,
when a big stream of pure mountain
spring water came roaring and bub-
bling and sparkling into this city from
Goss springs.
Many people have been skeptical on
this water question ever since the Bull
frog Townsite, Water and Ice COM
pany, last March, announced that it
was going to land water in Bullfrog
from Goss springs, II miles up the
mountains, by gravity pressure. Nor
were all the pessimists of the fault
finding, e~nvious kind that seem to be
a necessary evil in every community,
but hundreds of honest. well-meaning
people looked upon the enterprise as
being too gigantic to be feasible.
The vigorous flow of pure water that
came in Saturday night, and which
since has cheered the hearts of citizens
and satiated the thirst of the freight
ers and teamsters and the hundreds of
horses and mules, has silenced the
doubling Thomases. The pleasant
dream has become a delightful reality.
The effect upon Bullfrog has been
magical. New energy has been added
to business; new people to the city's
population; new buildings to the com
mercial and residence sections.
L Not on1x This ai+y h,t the vybola
Bullfrog mining district, will be bene-
fitted by this solution of the all absorb
ing water question. The camp has al
ready millions of tons of low grade ore
that cannot be worked except by mills
on the ground. The Harvesting of an
adequate supply of water, for all pur-
poses, clears the decks for the imme-
date erection of stamp mills. Much
talk has been INDUCED in connection
with the building of mills, but every
body has known that the erection of
stamp mills has been contingent upon
the assurance of being able to get wa
ter with which to operate them.
1t is said now that the erection of a
mill in Bullfrog will be started imme-
diately.
Bullfrog, being right at the base of
Ladd and Bonanza mountains, and
within easy tramway reach OF many
of the other huge ore bodies of the
camp, and being mex TO the lowest
point of elevation in the district, is
bound to become a milling center.
On the 18th day of last June Ne
vada's new irrigation area was bap-
tized in the waters Of the Truckee
river. On that day the governmental
system of irrigation in the Sagebrush
state was formally dedicated.
The Truckee-Carson canal is a great
thing for this state. 1t cost lots of
money. But it must be borne in mind
that Uncle Sam is a pretty big man
financially and that he has over eighty
people back of him.
Important as was June Il, when SEN
ators and governors and congressman
the system that is intended TO
irrigate nearly a half million of Neva-
da's arid acres, it was not more sig
nifcant to the state than was the 9TH
day of August, when water arrived In
purity and plenty, to Bullfrog. Great
as was the expense of the Carson
Truckee undertaking, it did not hold a
candle proportionately with the build
ing of the Bullfrog water system by
less than a half dozen individuals.
To grasp the true nature and magni-
tude of the Bullfrog water company's
enterprise it must be noted that there
were not. at the time the idea of build
ing water works was conceived, TO eX-
ceed o people in the whole district.