The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
STODDARD TALKS
OF BULLFROG'S GREATNESS

Rhyolite is 10 be the next camp in
Southern Nevada TO boom and mutations
there will in nowise detract from Cold
field. Tonopah and the other established
camps. This Information is the con-
sensus of opinion advanced by a number
Of local brokers.
Bullfrog district has a wonderful
showing. Here is what Carl Stoddard.
one OF the pioneers. says to The News
about the district:
"The Bullfrog country is one Of the
most recent of Nevada's discovered Col
condas. Having been on the ground
practically since the incipiency of the
district. l speak a~uthoritatively.
"The first discovery of any conse-
quence was the Denver, which was
found by Ray and Sutherland. Later
Mr.. Ladd found Ladd mountain. He
was accompanied by Billy Cochrane
and, as they stood on the summit of the
mountain. they tossed a coin to deter
mine in which direction each should
make locations. One of the properties
thus located is nov owned by the Bull
frog Mining company and the other is
the Bullfrog National Bank.
Benny Hazeltine made the next dis
covery. getting the Gold Bar. The fol-
lowing location was McMullen's Home
stake. The famous Montgomery-Sho-
shone and the Mayflower were next
staked.
Two townsites were laid OF stimuli
taneously. One was known as Amar-
gosa and was taken up on the Original
Bullfrog ground by III. II. Clark and as
sociates. Beatty on the river was
located by Bob Montgomery and as
sociates.
"a little later myself and others
staked out the Bonanza TOWNSHIP mid
way between the two points, where the
combined towns Of Bullfrog and Rhyo-
lite now are. Water at that time was
IS a barrel n hay was SEQ a ton,
more expensive by weight than grain.
Mine months later the boom came
and the Bonanza TOWNSHIP was pur-
chased by the Bullfrog people and the
camp was moved in a night. At the
same time the people of Amargosa
transferred their tents and other prop
erty to Rhyolite and the map of the
county was changed. This move was
to get as near as possible to the proven
and promising mines. Now Bullfrog
has been absorbed by Rhyolite. which
has grown to be a mining camp of con-
siderable importance.
"As an evidence of the richness of the
mines there, 1t may be stated that the
first train which caves Rhyolite Will
take out a million dollars worth of ore
from the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1t will
be shipped over the Las Vegas and
Tonopah line, a branch of the Clark sys-
tenn. The Tonopah and Tidewater rail-
T.. ad will be completed shortly after
ward and in the meantime the Tonopah
and Goldheld railroad is building as
rapidly as possible into the Goldfeld
district.
'Bullfrog is now a district that is adj
yancing on its merits. Its metropolis,
Rhyolite, contains 5000 people and
there are 1000 others in the district.
There is a tremendous amount of ore in
sight, $1O,0O0,000 showing in the Gold
Bar and Homestake alone. Malcolm
Macdonald testified on the witness
stand in the recent title case that there
was $4,000, 900 in the Montgomery-Sho-
shone above the tunnel level.
THE Tramps Consolidated is believed
by experts to contain one of the biggest
gold lodes in the world. In the Gibraltar