Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-06-01
DOWN AMONG
The BULLFROGS


To gain a comprehensive view of
the extent and geological condition
in the Mayfiower basin, a man needs
to do some walking and climbing the
surface of the ground, to use the ex-
pressive language of the hills, is
torn up to beat -" The man
who wants to know something about
these torn and tumbled mountains,
these frozen rock flows and eroded
washes, gulches and valleys with
their low hills and sperm rocks, and
who is not ready to do some walk
ing, had better stay at home.
To circle around in imagination
with even the word pictures of an
Alexander Humboldt before you is
one thing. To put your feet on the
solid rocks, break open specimens
with your hammer, examine the
quality of the ores, catch the yellow
CLINT of gold through your glass. and
see and feel and pan the formations
for yourself, is quite another.
You get to feel your nenes with
the earth, oneness with nature, yes,
with God. the Master Creator, Mas
ter Financier, Maker and Ruler of
All. You begin to feel something of
the operation of His Divine Provi-
denee in the life in you and in the
metals as you find them in forma-
lions flowing from Him. The miner
has his bunch, the m her inten-
tions, and the man who lives in the
Spirit, feels at times that holy in
fiuence grinding him in his work.
Alone, he may sit in the desert
silence, alone on a lofty mountain
peak, alone by the side of an ore that
pans. And so he works and works,
and pans and pans, ever seeking the
earth conditions favorable to the life
of gold and ever seeking the gold
itself.
Maybe alone he sits on the ragged
summit of the Mayfiower Starlight
ridge. The night and memory of the
works of man add their part to the
first crude impression of the scene.
: The Mayhower end Starlight hoists
line up with that on the Croesus
ground, with the Gold Reef hill ris-
ing to the south on the strike of the
vein.
Twenty-four feet of the Mayiower
vein is now opened up in the cross
cut at the bottom of the 300-foot
shaft, with the footwall not yet in
gold ore. The vein is already a.
300-foot depth as wide as a city lot
Some of it will show values into
the thousands, with the free gold
plainly seen with the naked eye. All
OF it will mill at a big profit.
Two years ago the Mayflower was
a surface prospect like many others
now undergoing development in this
rich basin.
The Bullfrog Pioneer Mining com
pany is likely to follow close upon it,
heels. Within a stones throw nortl
of the Mayfiower-Starlight claims
the prospector has found the gold
Paintings are obtained along the sur
face for els feet. The ore pan
on the dump and in the face of
drift, where the lead has been opene,
up on the rest, and pans on the dunn
and in the face of a tunnel 61S fee
to the east. 1t pans in surface cut
between, for a width of fifty feet
The company owns about 800 fee
along the strike of the vein, A hois
will be installed as o as the bes
place has been determined to sink o
the ore.
Los Angeles Bullfrog Mining Co.
A claim and a fraction of the eN
tension of the Bullfrog Pioneer vein
a claim on Quartzite mountain, hal
a mile east of the Mayfiower wher
a recent strike has been made, wit
two claims on the extension of tn
Manganese Bullfrog Gold Minin
company's vein, comprises the va
liable estate of the Los Angeles Bull
frog Mining company. Colors ar
found in float on the claims in tn
Bullfrog Pioneer neighborhood a
the base OF Tobin or Quartz mour
tain. Considerable work has a
ready been done at this point pros
pecting for the vein. On QUARTET
mountain work is steadily progress
ing to develop the ore body recent
discovered on the Los Angeles CLAIM
Some OF the ore, almost at the su'
face, shows free gold like the Ma,
flower in splashes Of color on II
face of it. The vein is now dippin
east, evidently going down in plac
IL has also widened out from four
six feet wide. Good paintings wei