The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-25
RUSH IN
TO BULLFROG
Gold Seekers Make District Seethe
With Excitement.
GO VIA SALT LAKE ROUTE
TOWN LOTS GO KITING-MANY
RICH STRIKES.
BOOM has hit the BuIIfrog country.

A BOOM has hit the BUlIfrog country.
- i'm Nevada, which. according to ar
rivals over the san Pedro by way
of Las Vegas yesterday, is apt 10 take
all the gloss off the previous perform
ances Of TOuopah and Goldfeld. Fred
r. Davis returned yesterday morning
from a three weeks trip to the region,
and he declares the scenes being en-
acted at RhyOlite and in that vicinity.
are enough to cause an ordinary mortal
TO stand and wonder what IL all means.
Crowds are going In daily from Las
Vegas, on the Salt Lake route, and the
boom is scarcely begun
"RhyOlite Is going 10 be the town OF
the BUllfrOg country" said Nj Davis
Beatty is a very nice place. and its 10
cation is better than that Of Rhyolite,
from which il is distant only four miles
RhyOlije has the advantage of being
nearer the mines. however. and that is
what is going to count. You cannot
buy corner lot I'm faVOra BILE location
now for less than s.. 900 TO SO 0Oo. where
as a month ago YOU might have mad
your pick for few hundred T.ors Of
less favorable positions which were go
ing at $40 few weeks since. are now
being snapped up at $500 to 81 500. and
everybody is preparing for the business
that is known 10 be ahead of the town.
1 got call on a lot for a few hours
until might go out to my tent and get
a check with which TO pay for fl, but
when I got back 1 was told that I had
been too slow. Another man had taken
IT during my short absence and paid
500 for il.
Looks Like Another Cripple Creek.
There are now about a dozen pro-
dUcing properties close around the town
! and the Lodges are so strong and the
ores 50 rich in most Of them that the
place is sure TO grow rapidly I look
to see il make another Cripple Creek
About the only way TO get mining
property Is to buy il outright. You
talk TO a man about taking $50. 600 or
SlOO- 600 bond on his property, paying
$1,000 or $4,000 down. with another
large payment to follow in a month or
six months, and you get off lucky If ne
does not laugh In your face. While L
was there man came IN from IOuOpah
who was big operator. or d big opera
tors representative. 7 don't know
which. He tackled a fellow for a price
on a group Of claims and was told that
he might have il for COO cash. He
was offered $4,000. but fatty refused it.
/ The man either went to TOnopah or
communicated with his principal there,
and little later went to the owner Of
the ground and told him he would pay
the $4,000. He didn't get it, the owner
having jumped the price up to $50 600.
Well. il may seem strange. but il was
only few days till the man came back.
went over the ground again. and finally
Z
The man who sold the ground / don't
know. but he was on the stage with
the party that left when / did for Las
Vegas. and he appeared 10 be all broken
up To think that he could not find more
ways of spending his money than those
1 presented along the stage route. he
would have bought anything, I believe.
( But that is the way of the country.
{ Everybody spends money.
Lawrence Kimball and I went in
/ from Las Vegas with "A rig and outfit
/ of our own We had many opportuui-
ties TO sell il for several times what r.
cost but after seeing me settled at
RhyOlite. Mr. Kimball decided to take
/ the rig through 10 GOIdheld. where ne
( viii most likely have good use for il in
| his business.
/ Water at $3.50 Barrel.
/ Water is d scarce article at RhyO-
lite, and when / left n cost $3.50 per
barrel. A new pipe line Will soon be
I constructed TO the town, however. and
] then il viii be much easier sailing for
( the residents Of the new place. Wood
/ costs So per cord. as ii has to be hauled
| a long way. but the community is one
that does not baIk at little things like
( that. They viii tell that the ore is there
and that that is the main thing Every
. thing else VIII come"
Mr. Davis succeeded in getting foot
! hold in one or two good companies, and
! from an old Park City man he got a
call on piece Of property. as we'll He
/ has every faith that some big mines
/ Will be made there and declares that
/ the ShOwings in some Of the prospects
( are good enough to set the most con-
/ serVative to singing the praises OF the
! camp and throw a vast amount of traf-
. fic to the salt Lake route.