The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-02-24

ing more excitement than ever known
in district of its age. Seldom day
passes that news of another big strike
does not reach here.
At the town of Amargosa there is
great excitement over the fact that the
town company has commenced actual
construction of the water system that
will supply the town with an abundance
of spring water. The demand for lots
has been go great that the company has
been obliged to withdraw all lots from
sale until they can check up, and have
announced that lots would be for sale at
Amargosa, only on March End. This
company is composed of men who "do
things" and it is predicted that "history
will repeat" and another Goldfield will
be at Amargosa within one year.
James Ford, who is heavily inter-
ested in the district, returned this week
and in an interview said that, accom-
panied by some Colorado mining men,
he visited the properties of the Bullfrog
Mining company, on Ladd mountain,
and that it was almost impossible to
pick up a piece of ore from the dump
that did not show free gold and that it
simply astOunded his Colorado friends.
The Amargosa Townsite and Water
company has purchased the interests of
the former owners in the tOwnsite and
in the water rights and have incorpor-
ated under the above name. The Off
GERS of the new company are IL. II.
Clark, president; l.. E. Benson, vice
president; Key Pittman, secretary and
treasurer Messrs. Clark and Pittman
will leave for Amargosa on Tuesday
next to attend to matters pertaining to
the townsite and to rush the compile
ton of the water system, and the inter
ests of the Bullfrog Mining company.
B. r. Hemenway, one OF the best
known mining experts in the country,
who has thoroughly examined the dis
trict, says that he considers the prop
erty of the Bullfrog Mining company, on
Ladd mountain, the making OF the
greatest mine in the world, and while
he had been told by many of the great
wealth exposed, he had no conception of
its immensity until he saw it himself.
He also has only good words for all the
mines in the district, and predicts that
it will make great mining camp.
The telephone line il a great conven-
ience dnd owners af mines in, the ,distri It
can now have daily reports sent in.
Manager Clark of the Bullfrog Mining
informs us that he has just
received word that carload of rails,
steel, mining cars, etc. has just arrived
and that now the work can be done
much more expeditiously.
A bank will be opened in Amargosa
in a few days, the supplies having all
been ordered.
Amarsosa Townsite and Water Co.
Judge Albert d. Elliott, formerly sec
retary of state of Alaska, clerk of the U.
S. Court, and during his term num-
Der of times acting governor of Alaska, |
a graduate of Harvard and an attorney
of very high standing, has accepted the |
local management of the Amargosa |
Townsite company at Amargosa, as well |
as of the Telephone compBny. These
are to be congratulated on |
the high class of men they are surround |
ing themselves with, both in their offices |
in Tonopah and AmargOsa.
Mr.. M. T. Newman, formerly paymas- |
ter of the Greene Consolidated Copper |
mines at Cananea, Mexico, and late tel |
Ter of the Southern California Savings
Bank of Los Angeles, Gala, has accepted
a position as assistant secretary OF the |
Amargosa Townsite and Water company
and of the Tonopah- -Goldield-Amargosa
and Bullfrog Telephone and Telegraph
company in Tonopah. Mr.. Newman
comes with the very highest recon-
not only from his former
employees but from all who know him.
Strike Adjoining the Annex.
"Another Goldfeld with mines that
will rival those of Comstock and Cripple
Creek" is the way Martin j. Murphy,
the well known Colorado mining expert
himself Yesterday on his re-
turn from Bullfrog district. Mr.. Muir
ply is representing syndicate OF Colo
RADIO mining men, and made thorough
examination of the various properties.
He reports several new strikes made in
the past few days among the most prom
inent of which was that made on the
Midnight fraction and Lone Star elains g
adjoining the Bullfrog Annex mines.
The formation in which the new strike
was made, Mr.. Murphy states, is radi-
cally different from that generally found
in the Goldfeld and Bullfrog districts,
being a white silicious quartz almost
identical with that found on the Bull
frog Annex, on which a rich strike was
made in similar formation.
Mr.. Murphy bonded several promising
and leaves in few days fOr
Denver and the East.
BullfroS Annex.
Active development work was begun
Thursday on this cOmpany's property
and will be vigorously prosecuted with
the end in view of getting out ship
ment of high-grade ore within the next
few weeks. Judging from the showing
thus far made with limited develop
ment work it is confidently predicted by
first class mining men that this COM
property will soon make wond-
erful record.
Shoshone Group Fabul0usly Rich.
BEATTY, Bullfrog Mining District, Feb.
GA million dollar mine-and not
even for sale at that fabulous figure-is
what Bullfrog has now. The property
is the Shoshone group on Montgomery
hill and its enormous wealth causes all
mining men who have examined and
assayed it to, figuratively speaking, gasp
for breath. Such surface showing has