Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-28
RHYOLITERS PROUD
OF LARGE PLANT
scoTTTs CANYON REPORTS BIG
STRIKE
Surface Showings Indicate That Pros
pector Has Located Grass Roots
Bonanza in Squaw Valley,
EIko County
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
RHYoLITE, New, Oct. 2L-Rhyoliters
are proud of the Montgomery Shoshone
mine and mill. The rumbling of the
heavy crushers and rolls and the hum of
the machinery make the proper kind of
music for which we have been waiting 10,
these many months.
While we Rhyoliters do not own this
mill, we do call it 'our mill" and are
proud to say 1t. 1t is our mill in the
sense that it is built at Rhyolite, and that
it is contributing to Rhyolte's prosper
ity 1t is our mill in the sense that as 1t
is proving successful to its owners, SO 1t
Is proving to be the cryterion by which all
of the Bullfrog district will be judged in
the eyes of the mining world.
The Shoshone mill is a decided success,
and the mine is a wonder.
At a depth of 500 feet the ore bodies in
the Shoshone proper are being developed
with every degree of success. The values
are excellent and exceptionally uniform In
the shoots. Water level has been reached
and when the crosscuts are run from the
6O0-foot level in the big triple-compart-
ment shaft there may be other and more
sensational discoveries made.
If 1t goes no farther than the 500, there
is plenty of ore in sight to run the mill
many years and pay millions in dividends.
But the large, strong ledges have shown
more persistency on each additional level.
The end, evidently, is not yet.
While we point with pride to the success
of the Shoshone project we do not over
look the excellent possibilities of the 9TH
er developing properties, and year hence
we confidently believe that there will be
several other milling plants in successful
operation in the Bullfrog district. The
Gold Bar mill, now in building, and the
Homestake mill, now being ordered, are
plants of their own. The need of a GUS
tom mill at Rhyolite should not be over
looked.
Bert Thayer, who has returned from
the Willow Creek district, reports a big
strike at Timbos-1 springs, in what is
known as Scotty's canyon, four miles
south of Gold valley, the scene of the
uncovering was made on the Keys prop
erty, which was taken over by Boston
people some time ago, for the stated con-
sideration of $65.000.
Will Run High Values
Mr.. Thayer says that the ore body en-
countered carries a width of eight feet,
and judged from the paintings an average
value of fully 5000 to the ton in gold.
There is an eighteen-inch streak, which
than $1,000
The ore is oxidzed quartz, very similar
in character to that found at the Ramsey
and Goldsworthy strikes in the same dis
trict, and Mr.. Thayer says it is fully as
rich as either. Development work is go
ing on at the property under the direction
of Superintendent Brockington.
The discovery has caused renewed in
terest in the Willow Creek district. which
has already attracted a good deal of at
tention on account of the rich ores dis
closed, particularly at the Ramsey and
Goldsworthy properties. A considerable
mining settlement has sprung up at Gold
valley, the townsite of the Goldsworthy
Brothers. Rhyolite people are largely in
terested in the new district.
Richard Bamberger and p. w. Dargin
of Rhyolite have made one of the biggest
strikes of the season, according to state
ments made by these gentlemen, who
have an abundance OF fine ore and long
strings of assay returns to substantiate
the statements.
Messrs Dargin and Bamberger returned
to Rhyolite recently form Scuaw Valley,
Elko county. New, where tneir new bo-
nanza is situated. Mr.. Dargin sent Mr..
Bamberger into that country on a grub
stake some time ago, and If surface indi-
cations count Mr.. Bamberger has located
the biggest thing found in Nevada since
the discovery of the famous Nevada Hills
at Fairview.
He had been prospecting in the hills
around Squaw Valley for few weeks
and waited patiently for certain ground
to run OUT On September 15 the
ground was open to relocation, and Bam-
which he named the Midas, and also
which . named the Midas, and also
staked three adjoining claims,
He at once opened the rich ore on the
q nd xUif ha q Of fyUn NUa re- a
new mining district has come into exist
ence, with every promise Of making a
permanent camp