Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-02-09
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BARE MOUNTAIN

Up to six months ago the develop
ment carried on in the Bullfrog has
been concentrated on what is now
known as the central and western
portions of the district, where such
great mines as the Original Bullfrog,
Black Spar, Gold Spar, Homestake,
Homestake Extension and Daisy on
the western zone; Gibraltar, Golden
Scepter and Tramp Consolidated on
Bonanza mountain; Bullfrog Mining
and National Bank on Laid Noun
tain; the Shoshone consolidated and
the Amethyst on Montgomery Noun
tain; and the Mayflower and Star
light in the Crystal Springs section,
toward the north. AS may be readily
seer so great were the rewards to
those who opened up the above-men-
toned properties and exposed their
millions upon millions of ore values,
that only phenomenal showings
would attract mining interests to
other sections, and it remains for
Bare Mountain on the eastern section
of the district, to do this.
Bare Mountain is the highest and
most inaccessible mountain in the
district, which perhaps accounts for
the slowness shown in developing its
resources, but the work is now going
on over the whole mountain with a
decided rush.
The vein system of Bare Mountain
outcrops in the most clearly defined
manner of any the writer has ever
examined, and numerous surface
strikes assaying several hundred dol
lars to the ton have been made since
the careful campaign of exploration
has been inaugurated. There are al
ready four different properties thai
are sacking ore in the course of sink.
ing their development shafts, namely
The Keystone, the Banner and Midas
the Skookum and the Norwich Con.
solidated. The metals predominant.
ing in the three first mentioned prop.
critics are gold, silver and lead, while
on the Norwich, which has the dis
tinction of being the highest mine il
the district, a gold. silver, copper
vein with copper values of 81 PEI
cent has been opened up. So favor
able is this showing that it has give1
rise to a prediction that Norwich vii
prove to be the richest as well as The
highest mine in the district.
At the foot of the western slope o
Bare Mountain is The portal of tn,
tunnel of the Gold Center Watei
and Mills, Ltd. This tunnel is beine
driven for the purpose of develop.nf
the properties of the above namet
corporation, as well as to furnish al
egress for the ores of the Matt,
Bullfrog, Bullfrog Venture and tn,
Norwich Consolidated. The TUNE
will cut these properties at a deptl
OF from 1900 to 1000 feet. At tn,
800 foot station in the tunnel
true assure vein q feet in Widtl
anC averaging $40 to the ton wa,
) encountered.
1t is along this western slope 5ha
the new Clark railroad, c~onnectin;
Bullfrog with the Salt Lake rout,
120 miles to the south, runs. A few
hundred feet from the mouth of tn,
tunnel is the station and town o
Gold Center with two other railroad
building in, n from the north an
the other from Santa Fe on the soutI
give a promising future for the new
? town, which is the logical milling
point for the whole Bullfrog district
Bonanza Mountain was wonderful
l Montgomery Mountain more so, bu
the w%atchword in Bullfrog today i
Keep your eye on the most wonder
r full of all, Bare Mountain ."--Mininj
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