The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-12
Lodges wide, Values High


W. II. Clark, chief owner of the Dixie
mine of Goldheld- and secretary of the
Gibraltar Mines Syndicate. said today
When BullfroE was located in Sep
tembcr of last year. the experts all
agreed that it was going In prove 10 DE
a great l1w-gradg camp. Recent deVel-
opmeuts disclose the presence of ore
bodies Of exceptionally high grade The
ledge on the Montgomery ShoshOue rs
over 1CU feet wide and may be 1000 feet
Ions and the most conservative eSti-
mate z have heard of the average that
this ore body would go is $50 a ton.
Will. several well known mining en-
Eincers of the district place it as high
as $50 z ton. Ore aSsaying $500 a ton
has been found on the surface Of the
Gibraltar. and there are half dozen
other properties where the showIuSs
are as Sooc or better
RhyoIlte and Surroundings,
The town OF RhyoIite. situated on the
desert about mile from the town of
BuHfrOG, and lying about midway be-
tween Bonanza mountain and Ladd and
Montgomery mountain, Is said to have
great possibilities for the making of
number Of gOod mines The lodges ON
Bonanza mountain 90 not run in the di-
rectiou of the townsite Of Rhyolitc. but
those OF MCR GOmeTE mountain point
do those of I-add mountain.
on Iadd mountain il situated the IA
NOUS BCIlfroc National bank property.
which has "a ledge uncovered I24 feet
wide. and points in the direction of the
north half Of the town. Elliott. Cush-
man and Busch, three young men who
made and loss fortunes during the ex-
Citement at Tuu0uah. and later iu the
early days Of Gol3deId. bought the
claims on which the Jownsite of Rhyo-
lite Is situated. and have already
cleared a quarter Of a million dollars
from tho sale Of lots
Having disposed by contract of most
of the surface rights. these men are
now turning their attention to the dis
position of the mineral rights. and NIr.
Elliott reports that the price of S50o@10
has been put OH the mineral rights of
the fifteen claims which comprise the
tounsite. In the present state of eN-
cfterncu over the BullfrOg district it is
believed that they VIII not have TO wait
long for Il purchase
Why Camps Discovery Was Tardy-
Mining men who are pouring into the
BullfroC district via GoidfieId are dis
cussinc the question of why the great
BuIifrog district was not discovered be
fore II is pointed out that the district
lies within 220 miles of the famous
Cornstock lode which was discovered in
ISIS. and since then the camps of Rev
ellie. - Lamar. Austin Caudelaria.
Hamilton. Silver Peak and Hawthorne
in Nevada have produced the enormous
sum Of about S500.000.J00 in gold and
silver. without any indication of a
wonderful district like BullfrOg lyins in
the near neighbOrhOOd
IL i also pointed out that while Bull
frog lie. Ia an immense desert area in
tn. verr heart OF volcanic region. il
has been given the go-by in the past
nv Drospect0rs, because for d distance
81 eighty miles no water was to be had
and no forage. and that the most hardy
pruspector persistentIy refused to pros
meet in a country that was so UnhOS-
pjtable To man and beast. Bullfrog. it
is stated. would never have been dis
covered but for Goidheid. which lies
seventy miles TO the north. and Cold
field would never have been known TO
the world but for Tonopah. which lies
thirty miles north of Goldfieid.
Discoveries at Bullfrog have given an
impetus to or0spectors. and hundreds
are Quitting for prospecting trips
across the great Rslston desert and
Death valley, southeast and southwest