Las Vegas times. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1906, 1906-09-08
April 9Th . Mountain Roustabout, To-
day Win 5000 Twenty-oollsr
Gold Pieces.
"sowLsRs' JewsLRy SHOP"
Johnnie Mining District Has Wealth
of Gold Coming Into Limelieht.
OTHERS LIKE 1T IN NEVADA

Recently 1t was the privilege of The
Times representative to meet at Ar
magosa station a tall. handsome gen.
tleman OF Kentuckian alertness, with
keen eye. strong nose, daring chin,
full of vitality, with quick-witted brain
activity. shrewd, the sort OF man who
ventures and succeeds. A generous
man; rather a hail fellow well met;
or, In other words, a lord without a
dollar and a prince with his millions.
A veritable westerner, bluff. straight
forward. that ever symbolizes the
mountaineer character today. like yes
terday
This is an incomplete word picture
of Fred II. Bowler, he of the rich
Bowler lease at Johnnie. Nevada. On
April 9th this interesting gold hunter
had 30 cents in his pocket, and his
better half doing cooking to keep Fred
in the field. Today he has a 100000
competence in bank, besides being
half owner in $4,000 acres of the rich
est land In the Pahrump valley, which
with irrigation will make small
prince polity for those days when the
winter time of life with It's snowy re-
minder is upon one.
April 9th. with hard tack and can
teen on his back, and the prospector's
pick as the necessary adjunct, he
vented his way out from Johnnie
tnXnsite- into -suEEeunding- noun
tains. That day he discovered the rich
ore chute that since has electrified
Nevada with it's fabulous rich gold
product II was on the Johnnie Con-
solidated company's ground. Bowler
lost no time in getting a lease; he got
1t on easy terms
The discovery on surface for six
teen inches returned over $1,000 per
ton. Single handed he commenced
sinking. When he attained depth of
21 feet he had sixty sacks of specimen
or selected ore full of shot coarse free
gold returning $3.50 net per sack or
SIS. 900 for the initial shipment. No
wonder 1t has been called '.Bowler's
Jewelry Shop"
At the present time he has a car
load ready for shipment that he esti-
mates will return $4,000 per ton. At a
depth of 4S feet and in face of 22-
foot drift he has FIVE feet of ore from
which 12 assays of average samples
gave a lowest and a highest return of
s27OO and $4,000 per ton.
This ore has its homing in lime
porphyry quartzite formation. The
richer ore is found underneath the
quartzite. One block of orc weighing
iii pounds from this lease is on ex-
hibition in San Francisco, California.
and Is valued by actual test at 22.000-
That Is rich ore for you. The ore Is
vivid with specks of gold. And say.
what 4 beauty.
The lease with ore on dump looks
so good and so rich that in the course
of a year Bowler win have made his
80 cents capital and his better half's
endeavors grow into the million-dollar
mark. the result of having the nerve
to seek opportunity and not wait for
opportunity.
Once before Bowler made fortune
OF s3s0.o00 in gdsd mining In Shasta
County. California. and with regular
prospeetor-miner way he proceeded to
enjoy himself In every nook and cor
ner OF the world. Thrice he circum-
vented the hemispheres. and. OF
course. prospector fashion. ended up
about the time the Toropah discover
les emblazoned the world with their
riches. The gayeties OF life had again
reduced themselves to the hard tackle
that comes with the monntaineer MP
and down, and until the uncoyering Of
the Bowler Jewelry shop 1t Johnnie
1t was . game from hand TO mouth
for him.
Being 0n top again, Bowler is mas
ing Substantial prOyision for the fa-
ture BY acquiring the staple holdings
associated with the Tich sol Of the.
Pahrump valley. other leassrs ID