The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-26
ME|KLEJOHN LIKES
BULLFROG PROPERTIES
Prominent Citizen of Nebraska
Talks of Geological Con-
ditiOnS of District.

When Gov George ID. Mciklejohn re-
termed Sunday evening from the Bullfrog
Gis trict where he had been for the past
six weeks attending to the development OF
his mining property, says the Goldneld
sun he seemed n much surprised man,
and said to several OF his friends
Nevada Zone Is Wonder.
Surely the Nevada mineral zone is a
wonder That which few years ago was
&C HSidcTed a barren waste, today Is pop
rlatcd district and traversed with raul
tending from the great ComstoCk on the
north To the United Verde the south
Constitutes Circle of Gold.
Il believe IL 30 be the greatest zone in
the world. While gcograpEerS call the
meridian OF volcanic eruption of the earth
an an orc zone that may we'll be called the
'Circlo OF Gold Nevada constitutes
good arc of that circle.
Comstock Was the Beginning.
"Comstock was but the beginning OF an
era in this state" he continued. I'm
Which the development of the gront mines
VIII be unparalleled In the world. The
Ionopah, GOldheld and Bullfrog districts
are wonderful areas Of orc deposits, but
tEese' In my oplaion, are but sections
or tho orc zone, and / shall not be sur
EIised TO sec In the next decade a score
OF such camps in Nevada between Nir-
Stnia city and Searchlight
Large Territory Was Minernlized.
The great possibilities of this gold zone
In Nevada. as a rule. are not apprehended
or compr"hendcd. From Tonopah to Bull
lHog there arc characteristics in the geo.
logical formations warranting the conclu-
sion that this zone is OF the same geo
logical period and has bccU formed under
slmilar conditions. The eruption has been
more intense ovor some areas than others
where larger and greater ere bodies have
been formed.
Geology of Bullfrog.
In the EullfroG district the dykes of
Ihyolite and dacite arc very wide and
trNccable for miles, cutting the earlier
and later flows OF andecitc Surrounding
Tie AmarSosa desert the rhyoIite- -dacitC
dykes cut the lime of the silurIan or de-
vonian periods, These Gccat lntrusions
htpe made possible the deposition OF
large ore bodies through the agency OF
heated water.
Prove Themselves Mines.
'',rhe development to date in this district
EaS been confined to veins In the rhyolite-
oacite nowy but as found by Spur In the
rCnopah district, / believe the veins will
be larger, richer. more regular and perma-
ncnt wher2 the earlier nndecite flow is
found Development in the Snoshonc
llenNer. Lucky Jack. TIamps Gold Bar,
Eclipse, fIo5nestake, Gibraltar, Bed Oak
and MnyHowCr hus reached a stage 20
Prove these pre- critics to be mines
Extension of Zone.
The strikes made in Gold Gulch. cast
OF Beatty. demonstrate that the mineral
zone extends on each side of the Amar~
gosa river for ten miles. making a min
cral belt at least twenty miles Wide. and
running from .he May1lower ten miles
north OF Beatty. to the southern border of
the Amargosa desert
Railroads Hurrying In.
Now that the Las Vegas & Tonopan
railroad Is graGcd within forty miles OF
Beatty. and the steel laid ten miles this
Side of Indian springs. preparations are
being nado for The active development of
all the properties OF merit Trains are
running daily from Las Vegas TO Indian
iplingS. which nov shcrtcTs the freight
haul considerably The road II Is pre-
dicted, Will reach Bullfrog on or before
June l. President ] Ross Clark reached
BuIlfrcS the day j left and 1t is his In
tention to locate the terminals to reach
all the towns and tho shipping mines"
May BE Senator.
The Governor has been constantly I'm tb-
field for more than forty days and his
observations are those of close observer
1t is said while there he made a great
strike on his properties, the Waupaca
and the Oshkosh. He leaves tomorrow
for Nebraska, whore in all probability
he will be q candidate for the United
States Senate.