Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-02-10

| wy "ho oc bR ubnf ID! IcSrrS, and, Df
course, they wore after all the rich ore
that they could get ont dnring the lie of
their le;.scs, but nearly all these expired
on Jan Iary LIST. so that "A new condition
d things hal To he met and when
returned to Goll'irlh about the middle
ot january very few men were actually
at work III the mines Of the canp. 1t
takes time to rcorguniZe "a force and for
the companies to decide what policies
they ARE gong to pursue IN handling
their mines Few are going to gut it.
tho same IA the Icascrs have done. and
| consequently have 20 decide upon
treating their proiuct, hoS and with
what power, etc, 1t If gong To take
some time for this To he iouc, s. |
do not think this camp will ne Il
desirable point for the uct"al miner
Tor another year at least.
| am convince that this will he
permanent camp, and when many 81
the" small companies have pas ,cd
'n.0 the hands 0t real mining mcr.
~ they will. GolIfcld will be Mecca
for the miner, who wants to work
Development work has been done
upon the following pro spcct, ruilcirn,
to stamp them as mines III my opln-
ION: Jumbo, Constitution, january, Rcd
Top, Black Butte and QYurizhe. There
are many NOR" prDnls ng looking
prospccts, ~ the Kendall, Columbia.
Goldii'ld-Tonopnh, Sindstorm and
othcrs. but whcn saw them thcy
were still IN the prospecting class.
Living IL abDut twice III costly in
Gu!diieli rs ~ t,lko. 'Id baths cost
Fl each, and they are an actual ueccs.
sity, ns the wind blows twenty days
i'll each month and with it dust that
penctratcs Ia the skin, and with the
freight ad led to the cost per bnrrcl
Of crude oil, it will be many moons
before the streets Of Goldiield are
"Grcascd.-
There has been greut deal said about
"ickncss in tho camps, but the people
who have suffered would lave done 80
ia any community. aa u person whose
-ystcm Is run down by over indulgence
would q: course suffer from cxIOsurc
and cold any place, and people must
expect some hardships in any new
camp.
From Goldticld to the BuIlfrog mining
district IL sixty milcs nearly due sonih
10y the new s;rgc road Tho stage tries
10 mako the round trip once week. hut
a regular mail stage service will soon bc
established. Thure are five towns start
cd ia this district, which Is situated Oh
the south slope Of the Gold Range, u
spur that runs east from the Grapevine
mountain range uhunt twelve miles To
the AmnrsOSa river vnllcy--wherr the
town 0f Beatty is located. Tho Amar-
gusa river, which IL stream about four
feet wide and winch hrics and sinks i'll
front Of this town la rise again for fcS
hundred ioct nt Gold Center, about five
miles further south; then 1t einks. not
To appear again t"r some forty miles
licntty har 80 tcnta, including stores.
saloons, h0tCis, etc, and Gul,l Center
has 0nc-tc eth Hs many. These two towns
were started on the river on account of
the water supply and the fine alfalfa
lands adjoining thon--wiIcn they got
watcr--hut do not know Of any mines
close to either.
Six miles wet 81 lIcntty il BonnnZn,
which has about twenty tents. including
tho usual saloons. e.orcs, etc. Two
miles further west IL Amargosa. cOm.
posed OF about fifty tents. with post.
OlLc. Telephone limo To Guldncld, and
which expects 10 have good water
suprly pipcd into town by the 4th Of
July. Halt milc further wc4i IL the
town ~ nullfrog. n place Of II dozen
tontl, with no saloon or store. but nd.
joining the famous miuo oi tho same
name, which wne the original discovery
IN the disirict.
There aro about n dozen good prospects
in tho diairict tlInt may prove to bo
mines. but us the deepest ehntt III the
camp January 10Th, 1909, was thirty.Iivc
feet IL ig too soon to class them Ra
mincs. Among those which believe
will provo 10 he minG are tho following:
Original Iiulliror, Tho Bulltrog Mining
Co., l'ullirog Extension East, Bullfrog
Extension West, Bell & Jones, lla2el-
tone. tho Tiger ard Sidcwinder claims.
| Tho frat two hnvc Rcvoral Thousand
dollars worth of oro sacked on their
dumps, so TINT tho propcrlice havc paid
| from the grass rootp.
4 great drawback not only in this
camp but nl.o ~ GoIhllcli und Kawi,h
and all tho other now camps, in TINT as
soon M u discovery In mado the man
! who makCa il, or the next mnn no tclla,