Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-16
REPORTS FROM
= THE BULLFROGS
Amethyst

Amethyst
,,n,ine will at once be resumed in
..othvst shaft, which has just
equipped with a gasoline hoist
De0n houses to accommodate
pun are now being erected.
Lucky Jack
T.. evnected that work will be re-
..n,ed on the Lucky Jack-shoshone
unnerty next week. The property
~ .ecently sold to James Corners
va associates, who promise to do
aStensiye development work
Manganese Bullfrog
The shaft on the Manganese Bull
q down twenty-five feet, and
.~aarintendent Bryan was showing
sar,o nice manganese quartz in town
,sterdav. They propose to sink to
ooo feet. A streak has been opened
~, shows a few colors in the pan.
Montgomery Mountain
Two lodges have been encountered
! he crosscut from the ninety-foot
.haft on the Black Bull. One is two
,set in width and the other about
,onr feet. Drifts have been started,
IA both are in milling values. The
a,oin ledge Is some distance ahead.
work is also being continued in the
Campbell tunnel.
Syndicate Mountain
work is to be started up again
nnon this property n Md springs
nuder tho management of Willis and
asrshaw. Two prospectors will
work Independently upon the prop
erty and the shaft will be unwatered
and prosecuting will be continued.
The property is owned by prominent
Boston capitalists.
BulIfrog Daisy
The crosscut from the Daisy shaft
an the 250-foot level has penetrated
Inc ledge material for seventy feet
without reaching the hanging-wall.
The management is looking for
something pretty good when the
hanging wall is reached. A drift has
been started on the footwall vein,
which shows six feet Of $14 ore.
Three shifts are employed.
Venture Nevada
The crosscut tunnel on the Ven
inre Nevada has gone through an.
other basalt dyke. ten feet in width,
in which values from SIS to SIS were
secure. Two basalt dykes, the first
one fifty feet in width, have been cut
and neither Of the dykes Is visible on
the surface. The tunnel Is in $50
feet and is expected TO reach the
black ledge in fifty feet more.
Gold Bar Contact
c j. Enright has started work OF
a group Of six claims Joining tn,
Gold Bar Extension The propert!
Is being Incorporated into the Col,
Bar Contact Mining company. Mr.
Enright located the ground and i
one Of the officers OF the company
a load Of lumber has been taken f
the property aud a blacksmith shoI
Is being erected.
Great Bend
II is a good sign when miners be
gin to buy stock in the property o.
which they are employed. This |
the case at present with the miner
at the Bullfrog Great Bend. TIL
cross vein is beiag drifted on an
looks very promising. The shaft
going down steadily and has reache
sixty-eight feet. Superintendent
Charles Splaln will install a whiI
Tor temporary use and will put on a
electric hoist as soon as the powt
line is completed.
Bullfrog North Star
Some nice values are being oil
tained IN the drifts which are bein
I'm north and south on the Mort
stars second vein of prominene,
Inc vein to the north Is dipping inf
lhe hill considerably, and shoN
some Of the finest vein matter in Il
camp As soon as the managemei
y satisfied that this is the pay sho,
sinking will be started toward II
-Vo-ioot point. The main tunnel
"eihg continued to reach the upp'
'eln' which is probably sixty fe
ahead.
Gold Reef
-Four new buildings are being 60
srueted on the Bullfrog Gold Re
property, Just south Of the Ma
mower. Superintendent Edwin
ules is establishing a fne camp, al
some of the miners wives are goil
out TO take possession of the nc
buildings and start some priva
uoarding houses. The tunnel on 4
uoio Reef ledge is in 100 feet, wi