The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-11

apparently the result OF their favorable
reports.
James Farrell, one of the owners of
the Daly-west mine of Park City, Utah,
that is paying over million dollars in
dividends annually, has purchased 1856
acres on Bonanza mountain for himself
and partners, including W. V. Rice and
United States Senator Kearns. Rice and
Kearns own the Silver King mine of
Utah, that has paid eight million dol
lars in dividends since 1897 Farrell,
Rice and Kearns have just formed a
new giant company called the Gibraltar
Mines Syndicate to operate the new prop
critics.
Mr. Farrell before leaving Goldheld on
his way back to Salt Lake City said.
you go into a new mining camp and
you always expect to hear reports of
rich strikes and great values, and, as a
rule when you come to trace them down.
not one-fourth is found to be true. In
the Bullfrog district it is very different.
Nothing that | have read of the country
has done Justice to it. 1t is impossible to
/ exaggerate the surface indications there.
l went down to Bullfrog at the request of
Mr.. j. H. Shockley, the noted mining en-
gneer. Mr. Shockley has been examining
properties in Africa, Arizona, Utah, Cali
fornia, Montana for the past year, and
has been turning them down one after
the other. l have always considered him
ultra-conservative, and when he wired
me that there was sufficient to interest
me in Bulfrog l thought the trip worth
making, but at that | was not a bit over
confident Mr.. Shockley told me that if
I would go down there he would show
me more gold on the surface than
ever saw in a mining camp, and he has
certainly done so.
ION Bonanza mountain t.ere are half
dozen or more well defined veins and
every one carries values, and rich values.
Every vein shows free gold or rock that
will pan gold l do not often get en-
Unused over new prospects and new mines,
but l frankly admit | never saw any
thing like this. / made panning from
800 foot ledge on the Tramp claims on
Bonanza mountain, and 1t was the big
gest panning l ever saw in my life The
panning was made from rock taken from
an entirely new point at a point within
200 feet of the side line and 800 feet from
the end line of the Equitable group. We
had perhaps two handfuls of dirt, pound
ed it up in a mortar and took out coarse
pieces of rock because we were in a
hurry.
"rhe quartz as large as peas we threw
away. The gold was very fine, and, as
said, it made the biggest pannlng ever
saw.
1.-The older this camp is the more ex-
citement there will be. 1t is simply one
of those kinds of countries that no mat
ter whether your father, mother, brother,
wife or any one else wants to invest In
it and asks advice, you have simply got
to tell them to go ahead and set 1t in.
1t does not look like man can lose
down there.
zone of the things that impressed me
most was the regularity of the veins on
Bonanza mountain. In all the claims |
noticed the veins run the same way.
They run as straight as gun barrel.
Veins like these do not stop short as
though they had been cut off with
knife. This country looks better to me
than Park City ever did. You will get
more values in one ton of quartz on
Bonanza mountain and Montgomery
mountain than you will get in five of
Park Citys. When you strike ore bodies
in Bulfrog you have immense values at
once In Park City. where the mines are
making fortunes for their owners, there
is lot of low grade stuff to be con-
tended with"