The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-09
U. S. Senators Clark, Nixon and
Kearns. w. V. Rice o. silver King
Fame and James Farrell of
the Great paly-west Rep
resented
FORTUNES BEING MADE IN A
NIGHT.

new metropolis Of the BullfrOg mining
district. seventy miles south Of Gold
field. over the purchase there within
the past few days Of big gold mine
prospects by United states Senator
George s. Nixon United States sena-
ter W A. Clark. United States Senator
Kerens, William scallon. formerly
president of the Ansconda Copper
company; James Farrell, of the great
Daly-West mine of Park City Utah,
and W. v. Rice Of the famous Day
West Of Utah
Five million dollars has changed
hands within week in mining deals,
and min ng men here say the music
has just commenced "
A shipment made from the Monteom-
ery-shoshone mine near Rhyolite
thirty days ago, yielded s2,8OO per ton
from the smelters at Salt lake City
and on Bonanga Mountain, mile
away Ten distinct gold-bearing veins
have been uncovered in fortnight
that pan gold at every point ana are
traced nthe surface for thousands Of
feet. Mining experts declare that MI
frog will sstound the world W de-
velcpment work has proceede little
farther, and that no camp ia modern
history gave such indications of the
presence of great ore bodies at 50
early a stage in the development work.
Tb chest mining engineers Of the
country have been located in the Bull
frog district for the past month and
the big deals that are now Of daily oc-
currence are 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 a million
dollars in dividends annually, has pur-
chased 1876 acres on Bonanza Noun
tain for himself and partners, includ-
ing w. V. Rice and United States
Senator Kerens. Rice and Kerens own
the Silver King mine Of Utah, that
has paid eight million dollars in divi-
dends since 1897 Farrell, Rice and
Kerens have just formed a new giant
company called the Gibraltar Mines
Syndicate to operate the new proper
ties
Mr.. Farrell, before leaving Goldfeld,
cn his way hack to Salt Lake City.
said:
"You go into a new mining camp and
you always expect to hear 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 Buufrog district # is very diff
ferent Nothing that have read Of
the country has done justice to it. 1t
is impossible to exaggerate the sur
face indications there I went down to
Bunfrog at the request Of j. II. Shock
ley. the noted mining engineer Mr..
shockley has been examining proper
ties in Africa, Arizona, Utah, Califor-
MIA and Montana for the past year,
and ne has been turning them down
one after the other ! have always
considered him ultra-conseryatlve, and
when he wired me that there was suf-
6cient TO interest me in Bullfrog
thought the trip worth making, but at
that was not bit overconfdent Mr..
shookley told me that if / 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.
"On Bonanza Mountain there are
half dozen or more Wen defined
veins and every one carries values,
and rich values. Every vein shows
free gold OF rock that viii pan gold.
I do not. often get enthused over new
prospects and new mines, but frankly
admit ! never saw anything Ike this.
] made a panning from a three hun
d1ed foot ledge on the Tramp claim
"a Ronansa Mountan. and Il was the
biggest psnning ever saw in my life.
The paanlng was made from rock
taken from an entirely new spot at
a point within two hundred feet OF
the side line and eight hundred feet
from the end Inc Of the Equitable
group. We had perhaps two handfuls
of dit, pounded Il up in a mortar and
took out hte coarse pieces OF rock
becsuse we were IN a hurry
"The quartz as large as peas we
threw away The gold was very hne.
and. as said, it made 'ne biggest
pannng / ever saw.
"The older this camp is the more
excitment there will be. It is simply
cne of those kinds of country that no
matter whether your father mother
brother wife or anyone else wants 10
invest in II and asks advice, you s.m-
ply have get TO tell them TO go ahead
end SET it in. It does not look Ike
msn can lose down there
zone of the things thar impressed
me most was the regularity Of the
veins on Bonanza Mountain. On All
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