Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-11
BULLFROG NEWS
IN MINING CAMPS
DIR. PHILLIPS AND ASSOCIATES
PURCHASE BEATTY
Also the Montgomery Hotel and the
Water SUPPLY. Ross Clark and
Chicago Capitalists Inter-
ested Financially
Special to The Herald.

deeply Interested In the Lee-Echo dlS-
trict, and DR.. w. s. Phillips and asso-
ciates Of Chicago have just completed
the purchase of the town of Beatty and
the Montgomery hotel for price that
will run well into six figures.
DR.. Phillips has been Interested IN
Mexican mining property for years and
came into Southern Nevada but
month ago. He Immediately became
one of the syndicate that purchased the
famous Hayseed-State line mines IN
the Funeral mountains and arranged
for the placing of $5O,O0O and 4,5OOOOO
shares of stock in the treasury, after
having been refused the right to pur-
chase the entire capital stock.
In Beatty DR.. Phillips and associates
have secured the railroad center Oh
southern Nevada. Already Beatty has
the water supply which not only fur
nishes Rhyolite and the Bullfrog dis
trict with water, but that also may be
used to pipe across the Amargosa
desert to the Echo-Lee camps.
Beatty the Shipping Point
The Las Vegas and Tonopah exten-
sion Of the Salt Lake route already has
chosen Beatty as it's shipping point for
the southern district, while the BROCK
lines that are building from the Union
Pacific south through the mining coun-
try and the Borax Smith extension OF
the Santa Fe will make Beatty their
terminal points.
The Montgomery hotel is the hnest
hotel on the desert and was bullt at
cost of $4,000 within the past year.
j. Ross Clark of the Salt Lake route
is interested with DR.. Phillips and the
Chicago pool in the building of the rail-
road center, and already has arranged
for the building of lumber yard,
shirt factory, cement works. brick yard
and custom slnelter in the railroad
town.
Los Angeles capital will put in the
lumber yard with material assistance
from the railroad in the line of freight
rates. G. r. Gilbert is the man who is
behind the enterprise and will also ar
range for the laying out of ranch that
will furnish garden truck to the dis
trict.
For the past two years every bit of
fresh fruit and vegetable has been
shipped into the district DR.. Phillips
and associates have arranged for the
supplying of the ranch with water from
the Beatty water works, and this VIII
enable the new industry to be car
ried on
]. E. Wilson of Denver will open
subsidized shirt factory in the district,
and Rose e Palmer of st. Paul are be-
hind the concrete and brick yard en-
terprises
During InS pdSl IWO years, II 10
stated, Beatty has been allowed to drag
by the townsite owners through the
pursuit of a policy that has been the
opposite of liberal, and the new owners
will at once rectify the mistakes of the
former owners.
Announcement of the purchase of the
townsite was made at banquet given
at the Montgomery hotel, at which
every important mining man in South
6o nraCant
Water for Lee District
John Largent, one of the men in
terested in the Hayseed and State line
consolidation of the Lee district, is
responsible for the story that the much
needed water supply for the new camp
has been arranged for and that seventy
miles of pipe have been purchased to
bring the water to the top of the
range.
The water from the Furnace creek
ranch in Death valley, which has been
developed by Borax Smith for the use
of his borax workers, is the supply
that will be furnished for the Lee dis
trict.
This water is the best in Death val
ley and the supply is great enough at
all times for the supplying of the
miners in the district and the towns of
. Lee, Cal, and Lee New, on the Amar-
gosa side of the range.
The engineers who have been over
the mountain country have picked out
a reservoir site upon the top of the
Echo Lee pass, upon property belonging
to the Echo-Lee mining country, and
here the water which will be raised by
pumping from Furnace Creek probably
will be stored.
From the top of the mountain the
flow will be by gravity down both sides
of the range. AS the Lee district is
two miles wide and more than twenty
five miles long one central pipe line
will be built down each slope, and the
mines of Echo canyon and the Lee dis
trict proper, as the northern slope of
the mountains is known, will be fully
watered.
Work on Pipe Line
Work on the pipe line will be started
at once, as the rapid development Of
the district is such that water is the
one great need of the day. A wagon
road is being constructed from Lee,
Cal, to the foot of the mountains
on the Death valley side, and along this
road the new pipe line will probably
run.
Mr.. Largent is of the opinion that the
Lee district will become before the end
Of the year one of the greatest gold
producing camps in the southwest, and
bases his estimate upon the rich show
ings made by the mines that are all
ready in operation.
Mr.. Largent said: 1.-THE Hayseed and
State incorporates recently consoli-
dated at a purchase price of $4,000
the Hicks and Leavitt property in Echo
canyon, the Echo Lee, the Lee Gold
grotto and the Gilt Edge already are
saeking ore that will run in every case
away over 800 to the ton, and 1t must
be remembered that this is in the face
of a difficulty In obtaining water and
supplies that is appalling. Water thai
must be hauled more than fourteen
miles or packed an equal distance over
the Funeral mountains on a burros
back cannot be expended foolishly, and
as soon as the pipe line is in mining
in first class shape will be started on
the properties in the whole district.
Faund at Last
]. A. Harmon Of Lisemore West Va,