The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-12
BUTTE MAGNATE'S
BULLFR0G BUY
Anaconda Copper President Gets IN
Next to Utah Operators.
WILL UNDERMINE TOWN
TREND OF VEINS, NOT CROP
PINGS, INFLUENCED HIM.
WILL UNDERMINE TOWN
lspeciaI to The Herald.O

GOldfeld, New. June 11.-WiHiam
Scallon, who succeeded the late Marcus
DAILY as president of the Anaconda
Copper company, and who until recent
y was the representative in the west
ern country for the Amalgamated Cop
per company. has Just purchased four
teen claims in the Bullfrog district next
70 the Gibraltar Mines Syndicates
group on and adjoining Bonanza noun
tain.
The property purchased by Mr.. Seal
Ion lies on the plain at the foot Of BO-
nauza mountain and the present town
or BulIfrog is built on IT, There Is not
a single surface indication on the prop
erty itself that would determine that
there was a pound of ore imbedded in
the entire 80 acres. In the opinion,
however. OF well informed mining en-
giueerS here. Mr.. Scallon has as large
chance of UUCOVCTIug a series of great
gold mines as have the owners Of the
Gibraltar, Tramp. Denver and Eclipse
properties on Bonanza mountain itself
where series of a dozen gold-bearing
lodges crop ON the surface for several
thousand feet.
Working on Hammond Theory.
Mr.. ScaHou. along with the engineers
OF the Gibraltar Mines Syndicate all
Utah men. who recently added to their
holdings the Norris & Phillips group
and the Ugly DUckling and Comet
claims that lie at the foot of Bonanza
mountain on the desert. are working Oh
the theory that made John Hays Ham
mond famous iU johannesburg, and
which has been successfully worked out
in Tonopah
In the BuIlfreE country they have
simply observed the trend of the lodges,
and seeing that the groupings point In
the direction of the town of BullfrOE.
they have bought ground that extends
from the base of the mountain for a
distance of 10000 feet through the town
Of Bullfrog- They are going to sink
shafts at spots already selected by
them, and are cock sure they will, at "a
depth of from 500 to 200 feet. tap the
hedges The lodges in evidence on B0-
HaUZd mountain i'm their opinion. do
not stop at the base of the mountain,
but extend out into the desert. and on
and through the town Of BullfroE-
Will Undermine the Town
II the work of mining planned by MI
SCdilOu progresses as fast as intended.
then the town of Bullfr0E which now
consists Of "a towuSite and several hun
dred stores. tents and dwellings. VIII
soon be undermined. and the property
owners who have not purchased the
mineral rights. but simply the surface
Tisht. viii find themselves living over
miles of underground workings in
short period.
I'm TOnopah the North Star company,
whose property is situated on the deS-
ert found il necessary to go to d depth
Of about 500 feet before encounteTiug
the lode The TOnOpah Midway sunk
about 200 feet before reaching the lode
The Tonopah Extension encountered
the lode al a depth Of about 80 feet
encountered the lode at about SOC feet
The ,PittsburG of Tonopah reached IA
depth of 1000 feet before its engineers
were rewarded. None of these proper
ties are located ON mountains At only
one point I'm the TOnopah district has
the lode pOTphyry CutCrOpUed or dU-
peaTed at the surface, and this oUtcrop
covers an area of only about fifty acres
At this point the original discovery
was made