Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-03-24
BULLFROG
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Interesting Letter From the
Bonanza'S Regular Cores
pondent at Rhyolite.
RHYoLIrE, March q, 1906.

RHYoLITE, March Fl, 1906.
EDITOR BONANZA: Things are boom
inc in the Bullfrog district, The rush
continues. The district is full of
strangers and the hotels and lodging
houses are still turning away bust
ness. There is not an idle mar in the
camp. The talk is OF big deals, mer-
GERS and consultations. There has
been a complete change here in the
last three weeks. IN fact ever since
Scbwab was here there has been some
thing doing. The consolidating of the
Tramp, Eclipse and Denver is an as
sured fact, The merger company has
ordered a big power plant, air drills
and have commenced ~excavating for
the machinery. This makes the third
power pant that has been ordered
within the last week.
The National Bank, the Shoshone
Consolidated and the Bonanza Noun
tain properties will have their drills
working within the next thirty to
sixty days. This will increase the
development work 400 per cent.
Bonanza Mountain is the scene Of
great activity. The Fronts, Gibral-
tar, Tramp, Eclipse, Denver and Den
yer Annex, Rush, Peerless, Keystone
and Golden Seeptre all operating and
there is a continuous stream Of men up
and down the mountain from early in
the morning until late at night.
Mr.. John w. Seller, vice-president
Of the Bonanza Mountain Gold Mining
company, has started development
work on a big scale, with all the indi.
cations of strikingthe bigTramp ledge
very shortly. There has been a won
derful demand for this stock, 60, 600
shares were sold this week to ]. Ross
Clark and his associates, Of the Las
Vegas & Tonopah Railroad company.
Mr.. Clark made a thorough examina-
ton Of the property. Butte, Mon.
tana, mining men have also bought
largely into this country,
The railroad is an assured fact.
President Clark, Vice-President
Whittemore and Chief Engineer Nc
CURE have been here for a week and
the route has been dedided upon.
The mining men aud business men OF
Rhyolite have guaranteed them a
free right OF way from a point midway
between Beatty and Rhyolite, through
the town OF Rhyolite and out to the
south end OF Bonanza Mountain. They
have decided to adopt what is known
as the high line, which brings them
in over the pass on Montgomery
Mountain, skirting the edge of Mont
gomery mountain on the Rhyolite side:
thence diagonally across the town Of
Rhyolite to Bonanza Mountain, going
around Bonanza Mountain at a point
about % feet below the crosscut tun.
mel on the Gibraltar. This survey
makes it possible for all the Bonanza
Mountain properties to load their ores
direct into the ears without hauling.
1t will be but a very short hau.
from Ladd Mountain TO the railroad,
although the company is considering
the advisability Of running a spun
across the lower end Of Rhyoiite tC
serve the Ladd Mountain properties
AT the mass meeting held on Mon
day night, the business men guaran
teed that the right Of way should not
cost the railroad a cent, and il was OF
that account that the high line was
decided upon. President Clark guar
antees that within thirty days the
graders will be at work betweet
Beatty and here, and that the linz
will be completed and in operation
into this camp within the next si'
months. Mr.. Clark said that this wa.
three months longer than they woul'
need unless they had some seriou