Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-08-11
SENATOR CLARK'S
MINING CLAIMS
His Enterprise and Energy is Not
Confined Alone to Railroad
Building Projects.

The interests which United States
Senator Clark of Montana has in Bull
frog, it appears, are not confined to
railroads and the freight tonnage which
promises to enrich his purse through
these great Nevada necessities. He
has tied faith to what is known as the
Red Oak mining claim, and is without
question intending to test its mineral
bearing possibilities as quickly as any
property thereabout can be investi-
gated.
The plant which the Senator has in
stalled on the Red Oak includes sixty
horse power gasoline engine, large
compressor, and two two-and-one-
quarter inch Ingersol drills. These
latter are placed in the crosscut tunnel
which is being pushed into the ledge at
a rapid rate, but the zones where the
pay areas may be expected has not
yet been reached. 1t is, says the Bull
frog Miner, the first of this kind of
power and drill equipment to be placed
in the Bullfrog district.
West of the Red Oak, and almost ad-
joining, are the claims of the Mont
gomery Shoshone, known as the big
gest property in the district, and which
is under development by the Mines &
Shelters Corporation, holding control
of the interests of Charles M. Sehwab
in that district. In the Montgomery
Shoshone there is at depths ranging
l from SO to 60 feet an ore body that is
over so feet wide and carries $12 to $25
per ton in gold. How deep it runs no
one knows; but it is found far below.
at the 1O0-foot level, where the values
are showing $10O per ton and upward.
This vein has been traced, according
! to the prospectors, eastward into the
Z Red Oak and other companies ground,
and is what has inspired Senator Clark
to go after a piece Of it in his terri
q tory. The surface showings have been
IS such as to make the other gentlemen
N connected with the property exceed
lp ingly enthusiastic regarding its future,
le and it is said that during Senator
u Clark's recent visit to Bullfrog he gave
4 orders that no expense should be spared
"a to bring the mine into production as
soon as possible, the disclosures in the
le tunnel having been so favorable in his
e, mind as to leave little doubt that when
q | he xrrin fr1ll foh
n in the Red Oak as it is in the Mont
= gomery Shoshone.
To the southeast of the Red Oak and
u also adjoining the Montgomery Sho.
re shone are the properties of the ShOshone
in Bullfrog Gold Mining Company, a vein
similar in characteristics 70 that where
= the Montgomery ShoshoI Neen ex-
n posed at similar dept ~
RS workings and althoug'
In width of over IL feet no ;.
n evidence. Here the ore yielos
$21 over the entire width. The com
'h pany is running q tunnel to cut this
ne ledge at 100 feet with the expectation
ms of encountering $11 ore at this poin
n and also an ore body far larger thar
: the upper workings show. This prop
n erty being opened, and also the opening
ne of the Red Oak will bring into yield |
by vast territory east and northeast of tn
n Montgomery Shoshone for almest tw'
miles.
10 A vast deal of development is pre-
", crossing on other properties than thos
ms mentioned, in the expectation of tn
nd proposed big mill of the Montgomer
Nc Shoshone taking the ores which may b
10 :, available from private owners, as 500
ne as finished.
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