Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-09-08
THE BULLFROG MINES
Taken from our Exchanges

New York city, after having spent ovel
six weeks in the Bullfrog district. Mr.
Horbach has made a thorough inspec
tion Of this district, as we'll as tht
Transvaal, Skookum, Lee and Green
water sections. He visited and wen
through all the big properties and many
of the good prospects, and will return
to the city with a very good knowledge
of the Bullfrog district. His example
might well be followed by other eastern
brokers. The Herald man asked Mr..
Horbach if he had found the ore all in
mine, to which he replied, mo,
nor in one locality. You have the May
flower, Starlight and Crystal Springs,
at one end, the Gold Bar, Homestake
and Gold King in another section, the
Transvaal and Skookum at another ex-
IRENE, and getting in the inner circles
you have the Shoshone with its many
good neighbors, the Gibraltar, Denver
and Tramp with others about out of the
prospect stage, on Bonanza Mountain,
and the National Bank and Bullfrog
Mining on Ladd Mountain, with others
rapidly making good. In my opinion
you will have added as many more to
the list by next year this time. What
more do you want? No sir, there is
not the least cause to worry about the
future of the Bullfrog district" This
is the opinion of Mr.. Horbach and it is
practically the same opinion expressed
by every visitor to Rhyolite.
E. A. Montgomery, M. l.. Macdonald,
d. B. Gillies and James Wilson, all
prominent mining men Of Southern
Nevada, are in San Francisco to place a
contract for the immediate erection of
a l00-stamp mill on the Montgomery
Shoshone mine. The Schwab repre-
sentatives have made a proposition to
the local firms, whereby the mill is to
be finished in a limited time, the mine
to pay 500 for every day that the iron
works a la in finishing the mill and
the iron works to pay 500 for every
day it consumes after the allotted time
for its completion. The foundry men
are reluctant to accept such a PROPOSE
ton because of the unsettled labor con-
ditions in the city. Three men are
constantly engaged in sacking ore at
the mine and are stacking up the can
vas bags by hundreds. This ore will be
later on shipped as the material is SO
rich that the cost of shipping will hard
ly be noticed.
The station on the 200-foot level of
the P%ittsburg was completed Wednes-
day, and prosecuting commenced the
day following. The ledge which was
cut by the shaft some distance above
will be p~rospected at this level. Con-
siderable difficulty is experienced in
keeping out the water that seeps into
the shaft, evidently from the flow at
Indian springs, about $500 gallons being
hoisted daily. 1t is probable that a
pump will be installed at a later date.
Thirty feet of stringer-bearing form
alton have been cut through in the
drift on the 15O-foot level, all of the
quartz carrying very high values. This
is an infallible indication that the drift
is approaching the big Tramps vein, and
its encountering is daily looked for.
The 5OOfoot tunnel on this property
started last week is now in about 20
feet, and will be continued without
delay OF pause until the ledge is cut,
to be nearly 500 feet ahead,
and will show up the vein at a depth of
over 400 feet.
The north and south drifts from the
shaft on the Index, Bonanza mountain,
are each out 35 feet, paralleling the
and have exposed a good grade
of milling ore the entire distance. The
shaft is IS feet deep.
The north drift from the main tunnel
is in 35 feet, a gain of Is feet over last
week. The winze from the main tunnel
has reached a depth of 80 feet. Work
Is also being rapidly pushed on the
north lateral.
The Herald has been unoficially in
formed that all the stock held by Hicks
& Leavitt, in the property commonly
Known by that name, was gobbled up
Salt Lake Tuesday at 81 per share.
As yet we have been unable to verify
The rumor.
The Homestake has made a find that
nay prove to be very important. A
cross ledge was encountered in the
south drift, 100 feet from the shaft, on
he 312-foot level. Drifts have been
itarted on it both ways, believing that
t is the vein from which the Gold Bar
ook out their high grade shipping ore,
the Homestake end line. Thus
ar the values have remained about the
anne as that of the old vein on which
hey have been drifting. General Man