The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-03-03
STRIKES AT BULLFROC.
Rich Find Made ON Bullfrog Mining
Company Of Nevada.


Reports of an important find on the
BullfrOg of Nevada cOmpany's holdings
at BullfrOg have been received from the
The NEWS special correspondent. An
! opening at the surface, 900 feet south
of the main workings, has exposed big
body of ore, all of which pans exceed
ingly WELL Assays taken from the
strike show values of $500 per ton. The
shoot is fully 80 feet wide and it is be-
lieved all of the ore will mill profitably,
while good part of the ledge will break
up to shipping grade. Superintendent
Simpson telephoned that the property
was looking greatly improved and far
above anything the management had
hoped for.
The town of Rhyolite, at the base of
Ladd mountain and in the center OF the
largest mines of the district, is booming.
Many new buildings are going up and
the population is growing rapidly every
day.
The new shoot of ore on the Bullfrog
cOmpany's claim is close to the line of
the Montana-Bullfrog company's estate
and has a trend directly toward the
latter. Development on the Montana
will be directed to opening the continual
ton of this shoot.
A Colorado Springs company has
started work on the Virginia, Wellington
and Equitable properties. Three shifts
are employed in driving tunnel. The
Goldtield National Bank has also inaug-
urated active development work. The
camp generally, according to reports, is
developing rapidly and is looking better
every day.
Lige.Harris- -Bullfrog Strike.
A strike of more than considerable
Importance has been made on the Lige
Harris BullfrOg company's group of
claims. In prospecting the surface a
ledge of quartz from Is to lS feet in
width has been exposed a distance of
fully 200 feet. The remarkable fea-
tnre of the discovery is that this ledge is
literally stained with fiourine, resembling
in this respect the ores taken from some
of the greatest mines in Colorado. The
quartz is very similar to that shipped
from the Fluorine mine on Gopher
mountain, Cripple Creek So far very
little depth has been attained. Values
are found uniform, ranging from $40 to
$50 per ton. All of the ledge will mill
proftably and the prospect of opening
up IA big shoot of shipping ore is consid-
cred exceedingly bright. In fact, all in
dications point to the occurrence of such
body of ore A number of samples
have been brought to Goldtield and have
attracted great deal of attention from
mining men, particularly the Colorado
contingent.
BuIlfros Eclipse.
One of the more prominent of the re-
cent BullfrOg promotions is the Eclipse
Mining company. Several of the most
valuable claims in the southern district
have been decided to the company, Civ
ing them an estate that promises to de-
velop into one OF the leading shippers of
that section. The company's holdings
include the Tramp and Tramp No. 2
claims, the Hobo fraction, the Tiger,
Good Enough and Sideliner, the last
adjoining the Denver claim, upon which
one of the greatest strikes in the dis
trict was made recently. Three ledges
have been exposed in the process of as
sessment work and surface prospecting
that contain values ranging from $65 to
5000 per ton in gold. The Incorporation
of the company is the outcome of an
amicable settlement of conflict that
existed between the interests of Judge
Ray and associates and those of "Janu-
ary'' Jones and others. The Bullfrog
Eclipse is otficered by the following:
january" Jones, president; Judge l..
o. Ray, vice-president; n. 4. Darcy,
secretary; John S. Cook, treasurer.
These with Patrick O'Brien, j. w. Hen
messy and II. }. Mckenzie form the di-
rectorate. The management has com
pleted arrangements for the immediate
commencement OF development work
and the property is to be Systematically
opened up with the confident expecta-
ton that big bodies OF shipping ore will
be disclosed. Jones x Borlni are fiscal
agents for the company