Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-04
BULLFROG MINES
HAVE GOOD YEAR
OUTPUT ESTIMATE TOTALS
100000
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. MAKES
BEST SHOWING
Capricorn Lease Ships Twenty Tons
to GoIdfieId-Ore Runs 5000.
More High Grade in
Sight

the Bullfrog district mines for the
yea year 1908 will aggregate more than
@9UU,OVO' according to the most reliable
hgures obtainable.
The official bullion returns IN Sbo-
SShone, as published by the state bull
Iloh Tax collector, show a production
OF $o35,763 for the first nine months
OF the year. The management asserts
I that the last three months should be
1loteu al $loO,OOO, which will bring the
total up to $685.
The tonnage treated durine Decem-
per has not been UP to the average
owing to the damage done nv fressz'
ing pipes and tanks. The ore has av-
eraged better, however during Decem-
Der than during November the Decem-
per average being between SIT and sis.
II the usual tonnage had been treated
the production would have hnen mich
larger than usual from a monetary
standpoint.
The December tonnage at the Home
stake-Klng mill is also a disappoint-
nent, owing to a number of break
Gowns IN the machinery. The bullion
gu doo was expected to reach from
$1o'OOO 70 $4,000, but it is not likeIv.
asserts the management, that even the
lower figure will be reached The
quallty Of the ore has been good all
the month and it is hoped that Ian
uary will bring better operations at
ic
estimated =
Official figures on bullion returns
from the Keane Wonder mill aggre-
gate $125,092 for the entire wear n
ADDITION to the bullion the tailinrs
pond contains a big tonnage ready for
the cyanide plant which is soon to
go into commission
Diamond Queen
The figures on Diamond Queen. with
the exception of a cotton shipment es-
tlmated at 800 a ton, are from the
smelter returns.
The figures on the output from the
BuI!frog Pioneer, which started pro-
uuclng only few weeks ago. were
given by Superintendent Bryan and
were based upon smelter and mill re-
turns and estimates upon ores now in
o[a aSd e. 1t is likely that the estimate
of $4,000 is a little low.
| Otficlal figures on Tramp ConsoIi-
dated are not available Two cars
| were shipped during the year and the
estimate OH the whole is made from
fgures announced at the time of ship
ment.
| The figures on Capricorn are from
smelter returns together with an es-
innate of $50 a ton on the shipment
made this week.
The output from the leases on Ladd
mountain at Rhyonte was compiled
by Jack Logland. who is leasing on
| the National Bank.
The outlook for the coming wear in
the line of ore production is splendid
1t is expected that the 1908 output viii
| be doubled at least The Operations
| OF the ShOshOne, Homestake, Spring
dale and Beatty mills are to be reck-
oned with in calculating the possible
production for 1909.
A. T. Force of Creenwater reports
that the shaft on the Greenwater and
Death Valley has reached a depth of
1910 feet with sinking steadily pro-
crossing.
| Mr.. Force also reports that party
Of Boston people, stockholders in the
Key Gold Mining and Milling COM
| pany. had arrived at Death Valley
junction, from which point they will
| Journey to the company's ground in
the Funeral range at Gold valley.
Inc Key company was organized to
take over a group of claims located
| by Bill Keyes and Walter Scott. the
mysterious, and the property was sold
| Tor handsome sum. which was di-
vided by Scotty and Keyes
TWenty=Ton Shipment
A twenty-ton shipment from the
| Capricorn lease was loaded out of
| RhyOlite the first of the week and con-
signed to the Western Ore Purchasing
company at Goldfield. The shipment
is estimated to go from $3.50 to 5000
| ton, the values being principally in
silver, with a small percentage of
copper and gold
Dick Taggart has been hauling ore
| from the Capricorn with a two-horse
outfit for the past month, starting dur
ing the last week in November, at
| which time little more than One-half
| of a carload had been extracted. Mean
While the high grade ore did not pinch
| out and full carload was assembled
with plenty still in sight.
The leaSers are taking out high
| grade every day and will prepare an
other shipment as soon as possible.
Capt. Miner, who is interested in the
lease with Messrs. Johnson and Carl
son, made another trip to the property
! this week, returning with Mr.. Johnson
who was in town for a holiday visit
Mr.. Johnson brought in such high
grade specimens that Capt. Miner i'm
mediately went out to inspect the
workings
The recent work in the Capricorn
| has opened the richest ore ever ex-
| posed in the property. Some of the
| ore is plastered with horn silver and
| is exceedingly rich in black metal and
! chlOrides. Specimens of this character
were brought in by Mr.. Johnson and
an assay made by N. NJ. Simons gave
returns as follows:
Silver, S87120 ounces, value S4435 so;
copper, 1872 per cent, value $3416;
gold, u ounces, value $40; total value
per ton, $4472.16.
Capt. Miner has decided to resume
sinking in the shaft. which is down
only fifty feet, and will probably send
the shaft down to the 100 level to open
the ore at greater depth. All of the
ore so far extracted has been taken
out above the fifty-foot point.
The Capricorn is only fourteen miles
south of Rhyolite in the Funeral
range with a downhil Du1l all the way.
Close to it is the Little Lee property,
which also Yields high grade silver
ore and on which a shipment has been
assembled