The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-01-12
BIG BULL MINING CO.
Walter o'Brien Finds Big Property in
Funeral Range

Funeral Range
From all reports it must be a big
one, and our Bullfrog correspondent
confirms the stories of the important
operations of the Death Valley Big Bell
Mining company in the South Bullfrng
district in the Funeral range. Walter
d. o'Brien, late one of the Goldfeid
hustlers, is the organizer of this new
company and of the Funeral Range
Cyty Mining company on a group of
claims sixteen miles in an air line
south of Bullfrog.
Rich specimen rock has been found
on the top of a mammoth quartz out
cropping, which has been exposed by
erosion on four sides. There are about
10000 tons of ore now in sight on this
outcrop which averages $500 to $500
a ton all over the surface, where so 70
go assays and paintings innumerable
have been taken. This is on the Big
Bell claim. A survey recently made
has demonstrated that the ledge here
is the same as a ledge which reappears
lower down on the mountain on the
ground of the Funeral Range-Cyty Min
ing company, owned by the same
parties. 1t ear be traced for a distance
of a mile on the two properties aud
ranges from six to thirty-fve feet wide.
1t is an enormous body of ore in blan-
ket formation and is believed to be the
same ledge as the famous Keane Won
der on the opposite side of the noun
tain on which L. L. Patrick has taken
a bond. On the Keane Wonder prop
erty the ledge averages about $4,000
to the ton and is exactly the same char.
acter of quartz, resembling the ore n
the January mine.
Numerous specimens showing the
free gold have been found on the big
cropping of the ledge on the Big Bell
claim. With the values mentioned,
and the remarkable extent Of the ledge,
Mr.. O'Brien says he can put up a mill
and begin to pay dividends at once
from the great ore body now in sight.
There is another ledge on the Rain
bow claim that has been opened up for
125 feet in length which gives $1,000
average values across a width of six
feet. A twelve to eighteen inch streak
is regular for the whole length and
averages $4,000 to $4,000 to the ton.
The ore is free and will amalgamate
almost entirely. 1t car be very cheap
ly mined on account of the formation,
one party offering to take a contract
to place the ore in the bins at the mill
to be erected at the foot Of the noun
tain for $1.25 per ton. A good wagon
or auto road leads directly to the prop
erty about t%wenty-four miles from
Rhyolite. There is considerable water
on locations owned by the company.
Death valley itself is nothing but a
sink where water can be had by boring.
The Amargosa river which flows
through the Bullfrog district empties
into this Death valley sink after
passing around the south end of the
Funeral range of mountains.
Leon M. Hall, consulting engineer Of
the Comstock mines, is president of the
Death Valley Big Bell and Funeral
Range-Cyty Mining companies, Victor
O'Brien, the newspaper man of the
Bullfrog district vice president, Walter
d. O'Brien secretary and treasurer,
Percy H. O'Brien, attorney of San
Francisco and A. j. Raisch, a San
Francisco capitalist, directors. Mr..
Walter d. O'Brien, the manager, will
soon make a trip east to raise the nee
essary capital to erect a mill. He will
spend a few days in Goldield together
with his wife before going to San
Francisco and the coast.