Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-26
BULLFROG NOW
ON THE JUMP
"BORAX" SMITH WILL BUILD
A RAILROAD
INVESTORS ARE RUSHING IN
Big Developments Are Of Daily oe-
eurrenee, and Many Persons
From Los Angeles Are
Arriving
INVESTORS ARE RUSHING IN

Special to The Herald.
BULLFROG. New, April 1s, 1906
are coming in daily from Goldfeld on
the north, and Las Vegas and Ivanpah
on the southland all are loaded with
investors, BUSINESS men. prospectors
and miners. Besides these regular
stage routes, dozens Of private vehicles
tion of the towns of the rich Bullfrog
district.
A healthy and encouraging sign is the
very noticeable fact that the stages are
compelled to make the two days return
trip to Goldfeld and the two-days-and-
a-night trip back to Vegas with very
few passengers. People come in. look
at the ore in some of the mines and are
loath to leave: when they do go out
1t is, as a rule. only to return quickly
to make investments in mining or busi-
ness. AS a net result the hills are re-
sounding with the echoes of exploding
giant powder, the trails to the diff
ferent properties are becoming well
beaten and the towns of the district
are booming.
The places that are bidding for the
honor of being 1.-The town" of the Bull
frog district are Bullfrog, Rhyolite
Beatty and Gold Center. Each is grow
ing like the first cutting of alfalfa, and
the partisans of each think their town
is going to be IT. Rhyolite lies to the
north about a mile, Beatty little to
the east of north about five miles, and
Gold Center to the east about six miles
Good Supply of Water
In town building the water question
is an important factor. In this respect
Beatty and Gold Center have the ad-
vantage, as they are both located on
the Amargosa river, which, though not
carrying a sufficient volume of water
to accommodate the larger boats, has
enough aqua pura to attract the way
faring man or beast of the great Ameri-
can desert. And many are at these
places because water is plentiful and
free" But they are Handicapped in
distance from the mines, in which re-
spect Bullfrog and Rhyolite have the
best of the interesting though good
natured town race, while both are at
present in the same boat on the water
question. This boat. it MAY be said
navigates Dry lake. The townsite peo-
pie of Bullfrog promise water in forty
days. The pipe which is to conduct
water to this town from Davis spring,
ten miles north Of here, was purchased
by III. II. Clark, president of the COM
pany, two weeks ago in Los Angeles. 1t
is now on its way from Vegas by the
teamsters' route. A force of men has
been employed for several days on the
pipe trench and the Bullfrogger feels
that the water question is as good as
settled. RhyOite hopes to get water
from springs that have been opened I'D
IN the mountains above that town. AS
yet, however, the springs have not de-
veloped sufficient volume of water
to supply that fast wing town.
Montgomery-Quartette Company
Judge I. S. Thompson of Goldfield
pany which will take over and operate
the Quartette, the Grand Prize and a
fractional claim. The name of the
corporation will be the Montgomery
Quartette company. Among the in
corporators are E. A. ("Bob') Mont
gomery, A. p. Garberg of Goldfield and
George W. Thompson of Los Angeles.
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II. Elliott have recently purchased the
Victor group. consisting of five frac-
tional claims between Ladd and Mont
gomery mountains. These claims are
in the immediate vicinity of number
of the big properties of the district
They adjoin the Ladd and Benson
properties on the south and west, the
Bullfrog National Bank on the west,
and the Montgomery property on the
east. The deal was made by j. B.
Lindsay.
r. L. Odie and Arthur Winslow have
until the first of May to take up their
option on the Tramp No. / and the
Tramp Extension claims. At present
these gentlemen have a force of seven
men sampling the properties.
Will Operate Confidence Claims
corporation to be known as the
Confidence Bulfrog company has been
organized to operate the Confidence No.
and the Confidence No. 2 claims on
Red mountain. Among the incorpora-
tors are George w. Thompson, A. +.
Garberg, e. A. Montgomery. John
Peterson, Louis S. Finnegan and Jerry
Keller 1t is the intention of the COM
pany to begin development work upon
its holdings at the earliest possible
moment.
The Denver is sacking ore that runs
from $500 to $1,000 per ton. A new shaft
has been started and work is progress
ing as rapidly as possible. A company
has been Incorporated by the new
owners and 10000 shares were dis
posed of in two days at 25 cents per
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