Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-13
BULLFROG IS
BETTER Than EVER
JUDGE BOGGATT GIVES REASONS
FOR ITS SPLENDID
SHOWING.

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frog. brisk, pleasant and as busy as
ever, is with us once again. The
judge is one of the heaviest stock
holders in the West Extension of
Bullfrog, and he and Len McGary of
Rhyolite have several properties in
the district of Lee, one of the most
promising young camps of this Sec
ton.
"Bullfrog is looking today thou
sand per cent better than ever in her
history" said Judge Hoggatt, "and 1
will tell you why. You know this is
a country of low foothills, and it is
country in which to find ore we
must sink shafts. The great number
of people interested in Bullfrog drove
tunnels instead of sinking, and what
was the result? Little seams of min
eral without any ore bodies, but
enough to make a showing and to
sell stocks on. 1t is cheaper to drive
tunnel than to sink shaft.
| The best biologists in the United
States are unanimous regarding the
formation of the Bullfrog district. 1t
Is that OF different flows of rhyolite;
and the ore deposits have been form
ed by golden solution coming up from
the depths, and silicifying the rhyo-
| lite in their upward course, and conf
ing to the surface in small seams or
cracks. Whenever these seams have
been followed down, they have in
variably led to ore bodies.
Take the West Extension, for ex-
ample. We started on little scar,
and went through eighty feet of rhyo-
lite Gaping. The little seam had
hard time existing, and its average
value all the way down was about
two dollars ton, until we struck
the ore body when we got values as
high as $4,000 ton. Had we tun-
neled all through, we would have
continued to get little seams, as has
been the case on many other proper
ties, which started off on their work
in that manner. Take all the dis
| trict, and you will find that all the
tunnels passed through hard rhyolite,
intercepting small seams, which, had
they been followed down, | am will
ing to bet, would have developed
into ore bodies.
| The Tramps is an example of this
Superintendent Blackmer got tired of
tunneling and then started a winze.
The result is that during the past
week they have got by far the best
showing the mine ever had. They
have higher naturalization, and they
are getting into the characteristic
green ore that we have ON the West
Extension. At vertical depth the
ore goes from $55 to 1915.
ITO show what depth will do, in
the drifts of the West Extension at
the 100 and 200 levels-in fact, all
the work discloses the fact that wher.
ever these seams occur, the values
Immediately surrounding them are
far in excess of those at more remote
points. And the values at the 200
are one-third in excess of those at
the 100 level. This goes to show
that all the country needs is depth.
| won't tell you what the average is
for shoot of ore we have which is
thirty feet wide, by forty feet, and
along for distance of 900 feet, for
you would hardly credit it. Suffice it
to say, that it is very high grade of
milling ore, and anybody who wants
to come down and look at it is well
come, mining men in particular. And
we will take care of our visitors and
give them the best of everything to
eat and drink while they are with us.
| am merely saying this for the SAX
of the district, for we have nothing
to SELL
We have a million dollars in
sight, so we are not worrying. We
have some good interests in the Lee
district, and take it from me that
there is one of the best young camps
in the State. We have some fine
showings here, but have not attempt
ed to sell any stock, preferring to de-
yelop it with our own money, before
risking that of others. There are
eight or ten properties working, and
when the Tonopah and Tidewater
road gets in there, which will be in
about a week, there will be ready to
ship a trainload of ore.