Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-18
NATIONAL BANK GETS ORE AT
GRASS ROOTS
GOLD RULLFRoa WILL DOUBLE
MILL
Plan Of the Gold Bar Plant contem.
plates Eventual Enlargement to
100 Stamps Should oeoa-
sion Demand

Percy Stanley located the claims on
which the town OF Rhyolite is situated.
On November g. 1904, there wasn't a
single frame building where the magni-
ficent little city of Rhyolite now stands.
The topography of the ground chosen
for the Rhyolite townsite was just mere
ly a patch of greasewood and gravel be-
tween two hills, furrowed by gullies and
washes.
There wasn't ten-foot prospect hole
within sight of the place, and at first
consideration the prospectors of the dis
trict passed up the place like a white
chip. Rhyolite was a joke for some
weeks and the boys had hard work to
induce some of the men of the country
TO locate here even by offering them
their choice of the best lots in the town.
But the discovery of ore on the Denver
National Bank and Shoshone turned the
tide, and real estate in Rhyolite began
to be valuable. Today, the town of Rhy-
olite is a thriving, prosperous city with
substantial buildings and modern i'm
provements.
The most hopeful and the most op-
timistic can only hope that the next
three years may show the same degree
of progress which has prevailed since
the starting OF the town. If this little
city can be builded from nothing in
three years time, what may we expect
OF the place in another three years with
the facilities for growth which are now
afforded?
>The National Bank is taking out ore
which will average better than 800 to
the ton practically at the grass roots.
This material is being uncovered 225 feet
north of the shaft on a vein which dips
about twenty degrees south and west and
out of the main workings of the prop
erty. The ore is being taken from an
ba
a two-foot shipping streak was $3.50.
Assays of $4O0 to $500, average ore, have
been obtained, and it is possible to Sc
lect samples which will go into the thou-
sands The yield is in gold and silver,
with a liberal amount of the latter.
The vein measures four feet in width,
and two feet of this is shipping The
rest. Superintendent Boyd estimates, will
mill from SIG to $50 per ton. Free gold
may be seen in abundance in the high
grade without the aid of a glass. 1t
occurs in an altered rhyolite.
Payments Completed
1t is understood that the South Bull
frog Mining company. of whiah Capt.
Wharton of the Skidoo Mines company
is president and one of the leading
stockholders, has practically completed
the payments on the property recently
taken over from the War Earle COM
pdny, SlIudleQ III lue COulH IoulllIOB
district in the vicinity of Keane springs
Only $1O00 it is stated, remains to be
paid. The original owners were mainly
composed of Los Angeles peple
The new owners have already done
several thousand dollars worth of work.
revealing an excellent mineral showing
1T is stated that they intend starting
up development on more extensive
scale next month.
AocordfnP m II G. T,uentZPl of Los
Angeles, president of the Gold Bullfrog
Mining company, the capacity of the mill
recently installed at the property is to
he doubled.
The mill, the officers state, is not CIV
ing entire satisfaction. 1t was originally
supposed to be a seventy-ton plant, but
1t appears that the machinery is too weak
to handle this amount and sundry
changes will have to be made. The rolls
and crushers will be changed t. stamps
with amalgamation. concentration and
cyanide of potassium.
1.-THE Borax Smith people, 1t is stat
ed, will. build branch line to the Fur
mace Creek ranch for the double purpose
Of making this winter resort and reach
ing the borax works owned by them in
the vicinity. This will bring railway
communication to within sixteen miles
of Greenwater.
A report from the Keane Wonder states
that twenty-foot vein carrying substan-
tial values has just been uncovered at
this property.
The foundations for the first unit of the
Rullfrog Gold Bar stamp mill are COM
peted, the machinery is upon the ground,
the timbers are all framed and within a
few DAYS the mill building Will be in
course of construction.
The Gold Bar mill, though only of ten
stamps to statrt with, is being placed in
substantial manner, the company S
plan being to eventually enlarge the plant
TO 100 stamps, should occasion demand.
The stamps weigh $50 pounds each, with
n six-inch drop, and when in operation
will drop 100 times to the minute. The
capacity of the mill will be from 40 to 80
tons per day.
Process Simple
The process of extraction is very sim
ple From the stamps the material will
pass over plates and from there into the
Huntington mill and again over plates,
which completes the process. The plate
surface comprises twenty-four square
feet Tests show that this simple pro-
cess will extract tie values without cy-
aniding, the ore being ideally free mill
ing.
The mine has immense reserves of
milling ores which will keep the ten
stamp mill busy for years. 1t has been
estimated that there is enough ore In
sight to run a 100-stamp mill at full
capacity for two years, in which case
there must be close to 100000 tons blocked
out.
The Homestake Consolidated will go the
Gold Bar one better in the initial capac-
ity of its mil and install twenty stamps
The process will be amalgamation and
cyaniding. the concentrating feature being
eliminated. which means big saving in
The cost of construction. The recent tests
made at San Francisco show that the
shines carry good values, although from
soile portions of the mine the gold may
be saved almost entirely on the plates.
Together with the stamps, tubes for
fine grinding will be used, followed by
agitation and filter pressing. Electric
power viii be used.
Manager Cadogan estimates that the
ore can be treated for $3.50 a ton, and
that ore running s. will be pay rock, all
though he may be able to bring the
minimum below that figure The twenty
stamps will handle at least eighty and
perhaps 100 tons a day.
Work on the pipe line will be COM
5nenced shortly A flow of $1,000 gallons
every eight hours has been developed
near Mud Springs and will be piped in,
paralleling the Gold Bar line. The well