Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-10-07
MA YFLOWER
is FANCY
GOLD BAR MILL CONSTRUCTION
HAS BEEN STARTED
GIBRALTAR MINES SYNDICATE
GRANTS LEASE
$25o,0o0 Worth of Annual Work viii
Be Done In the BuIfrog Dis
trIct Before JAM
uary I

Does the ore In Bullfrog go down?
Take a trip out to the Mayfiower an6
see!
twenty-five feet of solid ore on the 400.
foot level in the Mayflower Bullfrog
shaft!
Average values in the crosscut are from
s12 to SIS!
Improvement over 300 level of about q
per cent!
Solid face of ore in the north drift out
rs feet, averaging about $25.
Streaks of high grade permeate the
ledge, yielding assays up to $12o, with fine
paintings of free gold.
Forty feet more will bring the north
drift under the shoot, in which way-up
values were found on the 300 level, CIV
ing assays into the thousands of dollars.
Shaft has reached 800 feet.
Result of development on 400 level places
the Mayfower unquestionably In the list
of assured producers. warranting the
construction of a mill.
District Recorder Bryson estimates that
there is approximately S250,000 worth of
assessment work to be done in the dis
trict before the 1st of January. There are
5000 recorded claims In the Bullfrog. OF
this number, of course a great many
have been patented; others are In pro-
cess Of patenting, and many have been
work.
Mr.. Bryson says that to date less than
one-fourth of the labor certificates have
been filed, but he is advised that much
of the work Is under way for the present
year, and it appears probable that the
major part of 1t will be done before
January /.
The law requires that the locator per-
form 500 worth of annual work, which,
according to Mr.. Bryson's estimate,
means that there are $500 claims in the
district subject to this classification
New Mill Building
Actual construction work on the Bull
frog Gold Bar mill was commenced last
week under the direction of ]. M. Louis,
who built the Loftus-Davis mill at Round
Mountain. A force of men is now en-
gagged in laying the foundations.
George IT. Phillips and r. A. Moeser
have been granted a lease on the estate
of the Gibraltar Mines syndicate on
Bonanza mountain at Rhyolite. The lease
is for a period of one year, beginning
September %. 1907, and the ground from
which ore may be extracted includes all
of the workings above the upper or No. 8
tunnel and block of 100 feet square
extending from the main tunnel level up
to No. Q tunnel, the point of intersection
between the main tunnel and the raise
occupying a central position in reference
to this block. The lease stipulates that
royalty of 25 per cent shall be paid
and that fifty shifts week shall be
employed.
GIL Gennett, superintendent Of the
Amargosa Mining company, owning prop
erty in the vicinity of Bullfrog, says that
1t is the intention of the company to re-
sumo work in a few days.
A as horsepower gasoline hoist is to
be ordered at once. and the shaft will be
sent to the 600-foot level before under
taking any lateral work. File says the
company intends sinking to the 15oO-foot
level.
1t is given out authoritatively that work
will soon be started on the property of
the Nebo Mining company, situated near
the Bullfrog West Extension. The Nebo
holdings consist of five claims, which are
conceded toape among the best prospects
in that pafQ of the district, some small
but healthy assays having been obtained
from surface work.