The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-13
RADICAL CHANGES
DURING PAST YEAR
Complete Transformation in the
BullfrOg Mining District
During Recent Months.
EYES OF WORLD
CENTERED ON NEVADA
Great ShOshOne Mine Marvel of
Richness and Millions
Blocked Out.
Special TO The Tribune.

To that OF less than year ago, EVl"
dences of development and progress
greet one on every hand. Here new
Town, there some wealth hunters at
work trying to discover the fortune that
they know mother earth contains for
them. and at divers points the settler
and cultivator of land at work BRING
ing it into subsection to grow crops such
as are not surpassed in productivity by
any other soil or section of the world.
Wherever one goes over this route to
the famous gold belt, he ls greeted with
an activity and changes that occasion
surprise, and would make a Rip Van
Wrinkle more mystifed than that famous
character was when he aroused himself
from his long sleep.
Marvellous Changes.
This marvellous change cannot be bet
ter shown than by the statement that
some ten months ago it required four
days To deliver passengers from Las
Vegas at Bullfrog, and the delivery of
freight from eight TO ten days, while
now one departs the desert gateway for
the mining center at midday and ere
the sun has passed It's e 'entlde one
lands in the homelike Beatty and the
thrifty, whirlng. lively Rhyolite. Now
no more wcarisome, dusty stage rides,
but riding in coaches of modern COM
fort and with such rapidity rs to oc.
cason thoughts as to the great possi"
bibties of science and the application
of the same to ameliorate the adverse
situations of mankind.
Three Towns Stand Forth.
After arrival at the Ell Dorado of Ne
vada-world famous for its gold-three
towns stand forth viz: Rhyolite,
Beatty and Gold Center. Rhyolite is
the populous point, the typical mining
city, with its hustle and hustle, with
midnight as midday, and vice versa. 1t
is in the midst of the wealth:laden
mountains, three sides fortressed and
one opening to the Armagosa desert that
reminds one of Santiago harbor, Cuba,
making its connection with the Carib-
bean sea. Every hour of the twenty
four shows an energy and an cup and
at it" 30 characteristic of prosperous
mountain miner-like people,
Beatty is neat little town embraced
with the gold-a mountains. The
most notable feature of Beatty, outside
of its being the headquarters of the
Shoshone- -Schwab people, IS It's first class
hotel, presided over by Mr.. and Mrs. b.
S. Hoyt,
Gold Center is a future problem 1t
has mineral resources that with devel-
opment will make 1T trading and MI
ming headquarters. Rhyolite has two
Frank p. Mannux and Clemens & Keen.
Beatty, too, has a "Nobs,' and Gold
Center has creditable public medium
production.
The surrounding mountains seem to
say. Burrow our crevices and look for
our seams, and fortune will be yours.
To confirm this, and why tho pros
pector Is so enthusiastic and the capt
talist magnate has such n confident as
| fhN Il
levels of the great Sho5hone mines.
shoshone Mine.
The Shoshone mine is a wonder, 1t
| is more than q magnificent revelation of
the great precious metal significance of
| the Bullfrog district, for it has it's mil
| lions in sight. 1T is so stupendous with
its blocked ore bodies that it even
chokes the Imagination as to the posi-
which the world s commerce will be
| enlarged and man g comforts in
creased 1t shows permanency and q
| future of such promise that for years
| to come man Will burrow these sub
| terranenn causeways and continue to
bring, forth the precious metals 1t is
a mine that will produce famously, so
rich that millions upon millions of gold
and silver will be extracted from this
"a signboard for Nevada opportunities,
having the talisman about it and ind,-
eating newer and greater fortunes
| from the bowels of Nevada than were
uncovered and made out of the Com
stock lode.
! Eyes Centered on Nevada.
| II is part of the why and wherefore
that the eyes of the great wide world
are centered upon Nevada; why mil
lions of dollars are expended IN devel-
opment work and railroad construction.
| IT is part of the Fwhy' of those vast
fortunes already made and the many
more 10 be made in Nevada. 1t is an
| incentive TO the prospector and miner
TO open newer golden stores of which
the Shoshone is but foretastc (mark
Mohawk) within the confines Of the
greatest mineral erritory-Nevada-
that the ages have unraveled,
Why are these strong impressions re-
corded7 Because observation, calcula-
tion and the demonstration made en-
| force them. The writer has seen this
mine-its untouched blocks of ore, its
channels of exploration, its seams, its
fissures, it's veinlets, its dykes and
parallel leads percolated with gold and
| giving such rich values. Heretofore
one was inclined to believe that much
emanating from the Bullfrog district
was romance or fiction. Others may
call it ''hot air. but seeing is to be
| heve.
Activity Apparent Everywhere.
Approaching Montgomery mountain
from the Beatty side. one is struck with
the abnormal activity. The hills are
dotted with human bees sinking pros
pect holes, driving tunnels, running
cuts. and with the ancient 50 Arm
strong sinking shafts. and ere one
reaches the Sboshone he passes the
hosting plants of the Rec, Oak, the
Lucky Jack, Amethyst, Providence,
showing ore and those bonanza indi-
cations that give such eclat and stabil~
itv to the Shoshone. Passing on,
striking the ridge of the mountain and
beholding to the west the busy town
Of Rhyo1ite. and on this roadway apex
alongside Montgomery Mountain peak
/ is lie inus hna Ring hnuse and