The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-04-13
TRANSVAAL THE
GREATEST EVER

The Beatty Bullfrog Miner gives the
following enthusiastic account of the
knew Transvaal district:
Beatty and Rhyolite are to have a
rival sister town. More of a sister than
a rival. Fifteen miles no~rtheasterly of
Beatty. a new camp bearing the name
OF Transvaal is s~pringing up,and Two
weeks ago where there was not a sign
Of human ~habitation, fifty tents ana
buildings are now In evidence and men
| are as thick as ants on an ant NIL.
| Blasts are constantly booming and the
| fifteen miles of crooked road that leads
down to Beatty is lined with rigs and
burro outfits going and coming. More
| coming han going.
On a brush covered fiat, stretching
away from a low range of hills. and on
| that part selected for the main streets,
the brush has been cleared away and
the ground leveled. Along these clear
ings the buildings are scattered for sew
eral blocks square. Many outfits are
going in daily, and by the tim the
Miner goes to press, there will probably
by fully so dwellings in Transvaal. 1t
only takes one day to build a town in
Southern Nevada.
Beatty and Rhyolite citizens are still
agog over the mammoth strike on the
| Transvaal. Dozens of teams leave
daily with local people, and mingled
with them are many outfits from Gold
field and south of here.
The first account in the Miner last
week was of where the owners had
found a spot in a certain gulch where
the gravel would PAN. At this time the
vein that had thrown off the gold had
not been found, and the owners were en-
dea voring to trace it up. Little did VIC
think, or our readers, that it would
amount to what it as-th greatest
surface showing in the world.
It's a big statement, but it's a bigger
showing. Bullfrog district with it's end
less chain of wonders has to take off it's
hat to the new king.
Mining men famous all over the
world, have visited it and are universal
in saying that it is the greatest surface
showing ever uncovered. There are, or
nave been, no exceptions. o would
be surprised to hear the name of one of
the men that made this statement.
If the Transvaal goes down, and any
one desires to purchase. the sum that
Chas. M. Schwab paid for the Shoshone
will have to be multiplied some. The
Transvaal will go down. as there is not
a spot in the district that does not
show increased values and wider ore
bodies with depth. What will the
Transvaal be several hundred feet I'M
foreground? Already the owners have
been offered $780, 900 for a 81 per cent
control, and the deepest hole on the new
property not over two feet. This, it is
declared, greatly exceeds any offer ever
made for an ~undeveloped prospect at
the same stage. Less than two weeks
ago the discovery was made.
A cut has been made through the ore
body where discovered or the surface
and as yet no cessation of values. For
q distance of lis feet easterly and
westerly, and over 200 feet northerly
and southerly, they hold out; all the
rock thus far exposed ~panning up in he
shipping class. How much more of it
is not known. 1t appears that Dame
Nature used this certain spot for the
dumped therein all the gold she had left
after making rich in the precious metal
the other parts of the world. Even the
sand and gravel, lots of it mixed with
sage brush and twigs, pam wonderfully.
For a limited area the placer fields of
Alaska are put in the shade, and it has
been suggested to the owners that they
install a sluice box and wash out all the
surface dirt.