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_____________________________________________________________________________________________________THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1903. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ nm nrtr mimisiM c<Minm ^z^5A7T7?c?<fr <5JP<5*ao*=* -'^ZA^VV^ <?. <3i<?<y^y <^Voz-y* ^33^H5l2r ^%%%y&2V3^ ^KA%5&v<cy <c<?. ^EUrjvy** -AXA^Asvvr— 4------------'' ' . ^ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------—- -------—............ —-^-—- --"^^ ^.-^- - —-^ ^ ' * ^^ 'Z^------------------------..........................----------------------------------!* LOCATION OF SOME OF THE V/ELL-KNOWN MINES THAT ARE ADJACENT TO THE TOWNS OF BULLFROG AND RHYOLITE. HAS LARGE ABUNDANCE OF READY GOLD M«ts.' ______,______ +_____________________________-________-__________________—___________________________________________________________________________________________________+ !s Principa! Owner of Montgomery-Shoshone M!CTQ]PT MflUI DfUnn Mj}]/rC mrnrTU crrc Property and Otherwise Interested. ] !l!! ! !c!!MM He!!HK!! HMu A r ^ Bonanza Mountain on the west. On The estimated respurces of your com- MtHsH Mn* H M ^rf n *^.........................------------------ --------------------------- . ' <!< U)v ! !Hv H !SU w9 !!Hfa!H! !w!ft!%H t! these mountains are situated the prin- pany per month, after the installation [Win!##!! ] s] e!.!. .!# ! HWH!HtAA—v Cipai mines of the district. Were your of the water system, is as foliows: )m!9&!fHAin rt r*rt rt rtnr* town situated farther up the guich he- .^^c g^goiwater for do- f*!nr* fiHTD OO!/ it Ann Amt iM! Pnn!! OrtinB! tween these mountains it w.uid be im- mesticuseper day atl ! ii H l)!HM/ !\ HBWM e! tie N!!!!! HrPf!M! P°^bt t.brms^nywnte to thy cntp.rgni 57.600 00 HMh } ! ! HR / !U fiUVfStibiliU UUU!J [iUUil! It is ^ the junction of the ^g„„g^.i^terformiIi- !!]lL UU!LUU!\ / '*** k2WM <H-t V!,, present wagon roads from Tonopah, j^g purpose, per day at !!t!5-VV. g*wze / ,2I,*T*,, ^f\r*r*H ______*______ GoidReid and Las Vegas. one-tenth of a cent per gai.514.250 00 -. ,--------- A. St#! iiitiiiii! It is the highest point on the moun- pjye tons of ice per day at 5 MM! in IT{ r )) StockJtolders Are Informed b?"t^^a^o?d^ym'?^J?tmme?i- <=.nt.p.rpound...................-n6.Mooo Finds That Bullfrog Holds U' i-t-U That, Their Pronertv is a,teiy constructed to t^edistmet by nr. .. * t36,75ooo Values That Run Hiafh in / . AIldL l,iopeiby d Smith, famiiiariy known as "Borax The expense of maintaining ' ^ tiro wine Fast, in Value Smith." Mr. Ryan, representing Mr. y.ur water system and - Tests Hade bv ASSKVS " ^ - s` *" ^n9HHBH9A^3 TVewBiseoverie<S Show That "I Smith, has just selected s.verai acres townsltewiilbenottoex- ^ AlcW l^ioWV^iit3o OI1UW -Liid;h - -....4------— beioAV the tpwn for railroad depot and ceed $30 a day....................... $900 00 -.......+—------- flnfl*Bf!pTiPP Tu UnQPfl fYn T Aivrr^ Tr^\TT\T*M/*tCi T AT)^i*Ci It is the oply point where ample The expense of operating Tj`!TAUfT\nTQ ltmTT\IfTiAT\fQ A^ILU.U.enLe IS J3daeu. UU JjAND HOLDINGS LAHGJb and commodio&s corral grounds for the your ice plant will be about jbXAAliNLS AIOUNiAlNS Solid Basis of Merits , n^erous teams now^auHng ore and $40 A day.;...................41,200 00 ,. ---------*--------- Many Lots Are Sold and in Y.ur springs and water sup^y ^n- wni Manager of the Lucky Boy TAT /*if*IT'Tl^m?irrs T\TOm*DTr'!Ti s^Ym-ip geyser springs. gQpg^ptiy be increasing in vaiue. Re- IN GOLDREED DISTRICT prospect Is a Townsite""^"^^^^^""^",';^/^.pectfuiiy submitted. Describes What Appeared ^ i T Soon to Be Developed i^^,^iter^nn^Jo'T<f"fhese KEY piTTMAH secretary. Wlien He Visited Ground ;. w*. &,. Townsite, Water and Ice ^ ^ * ^^gsl^vTs^far^en d^vemped^ as order of the board of directors. _____________ Company Receives—Facts Th. b..r. .f director, .t th. Bun. ^AWICH GOLDREED BULLFROG. Mayz..-R. M.cb.th, ,.n- Tpmn Hnitrrl nfllirpptnrs frog Townsite, Water and Ice Company These two spring, are powilowing y.,rt ^.! manager of the Lucky Boy mines of gMM&A. .s f. J?iUlM i)Udi(A Oi l7iieH'OIb. have just made the following report to goo^IM gallons of watar daily. The COMPANY CLAIMS Custer, Idaho, out of which $U,MM,MKf has ---------+-------- stockholders: other springs will easily supply an! . ... been extracted, has spent a week investi- ov o ^ ATMUon Yom* company owns the Bullfrog equal amount of water. These springs r,t-hhshlv a^rond in importance as a gatingtheleadingpropertlesoftheBull- Fr & townsite. which embraces one^hutmred ^fte^^ded^tmg^'the fr?ctmn"^om m'ni')S property in the Gcidreed mining frog district. He is in the Reid represent- The Buiifrog District, situated sixty southland LtUotmn^"he*rn^n^iniues engineer estimates that the water wiii district, State of NevaUa, is the prop- ing Sait Lake capita). Upon being inter- mites south of OoldHeid, was discov- of the Bullfrog mining district. Nye have IS6 feet of gravity pressure at the erty of the Kawich Goidreed Mining v.ewed about the district, he smd. ^ ,^yi ,. . __- ^, ^ townsite. The ditch for the pipe hn^ Comnanv. This Company's property Through the courtesy of Mr. Mont- I i ^ )ii ^ T /! Sta^te of Nevada. is completed, and most of the pipe is consists of five mining claims lying im- gomery and his capable superintendent, tensiveiy and rapi3ly developed. The Spring, and water rights situated about .n the ground ready for c.nnec- ^,^,y "mth ° and on the lam. Mr. H.v.ek I was permitted to make an W ledge, discovered thus far have been two ,mtes south of the Amarg.sa Rher The remaining P'Pe wiii be de- ^Lt ihfer.cct the property of examination of the M.ntg.mery-Sh.sh.n. of enormous size and in many instances and about ten miles from your town- ]ivered on or before the 15th day of ^e Goidreed Mines Company. By rea- j .,^^3 tb. 3^- .,.hty feet thick, \f of fabulous richness. A recent strike, site; the franchise and right of way for June. The water wiii be Rowing son of the lack oi water that has here- A,, he norlheastlnd southwest ^ known as the Shoshone Mountain strike, a pipe iine between the springs and the through the pipes by the Rrst day of tof<xre existed in that mining camp itt- t"e suite to oe northeast ana soutn . ^ -. shows a vein Rfty feet wide, which shows town Qf Buiifrog; eieven and seven July next. tie deveiopmeht wo<;k has been done on hn° d*P about nfty-nve degrees to an average of about $200 p^r ton. Assays eights miles of nine, seven and six inch The vaiue of your water can readily tbis property. However, there are sev- southeast. It is a contact between birds- ^ ranging from ^iO per ton to H600. The steel riveted pipe, and a three-story be appreciated when yon are informed erat strong veins of goid-beari"K ore eye porphyry and rhyotite, the porphyry ^ values in this district are principaiiy in frame hotei on lots nine and ten in that it is the only water in the district crossing the entire property. forming the footwaii, and it cannot pos- tgoi<3, aithough in some portions of the block forty-four. that wiii How into the camp by gravity. While it may not be correct to say sibty miss the Montgomery Mountain sjS6r 1 [district high values in silver are obtained. The town has now a population of The Amargosa River is situated on the that the ledge's on ,this property are Mining Company's ground. ^ iPrcspectors are examining aijd tocating about nine hundred peopie, with a daily other side of a range of mountains from the same iedge^ that crop on the prop- "Of the eighty feet of ore eleven feet &; t .. — -----, t3^<noviue increase in nonuiation of thirty. There the mines, and even tf the water epuid cpy of the Goidreed Mines Company, as are ta'c, which should run from 5300 to * — -e Range' and in the CrestedRutte Range, m iocatea !tf*your town mo ov^esatse <^*SrrajLgiiich,Ihterys]9e& t^eid^_thL.u from tim^anjrines.made. and sixty- and it is p`robabic that new^dtstricts will the district, the District RetSmder's of- tains it is unRt for !uomestlc Use by yet by reason of the Strike of th^se nine fern are mixed taitT qutirtz" nn'T* I "At''"' be discovered in these sections. Through- Rce for the district, the Southern Ne- reason of its aikaiine^properties. The vein, and the Slmiiarity of the ore, it nnrnhvrv which should run from 3SO to /C * 45,^^ out the greater portion of this country ^ c^P!mt present price of water in Tonopah and is very probable they are the same, .,na Fittv feet have been drifted in the J there is a scarcity of water; in some dis- °?t°e GoidReid, Nevada, in each of which The ore, as is characteristic of the dts-i.^.* the footwaii an uDraise forty- tricts it is the most serious'probtem to phonJ^^Tmeg^phC^pa^^ldohe systems, is I trim, is a white quartz, tinted with <t!st, f..t to the surface, and a winze twen- \ , ,.M<%W be contended, with. Fortunately in the Pi"?{*cm`<* Company, and one ctn Per gaiion, white the present cost Ptnk color, carrying a great deai of .... gee- -n the taic Bv , M Tonopah District this has been overcome °L ," hotels in Southern Nevada, water in the Buiifrog mining dis- oxidized iron. The vaiu?s are almost Hfteen the ton as of by bringing in a pip. line some fourteen "*ict is from 52 to 52 50 per barmi. A entirety , in gold, which is found free, ^"r.fJ hghtm weight there are ^sily \A<;T4 ^ miles; in the GoidReid District water is ^ ^nunty ^ a^dmon right of way and franchise for the pipe "** °^er words, in its native state, ^ .^ht at the r^eYfnt time% OM m^ of ^ / f! an^^mh^lrn^HelstH me^tiJho^ee m Southern N^! been obtained from th. Cun- The ore and 5K^ haL nm ye? b^r.^nt in ^ distance also i.eated in your town, ty Commissioners of Ny. County. arated Rem thV%aHt bv taic ^ams development work. This, from the values AW a?`?a , ? Hon. W. M. Stewart, for thirty year, in Your hotei ha. been rented t. Casey ^itlm Dom w^-iots m?<?s* on ! contained, makes th. M.nfg.mery-Sho- (1 )N3 whtA ^be United States Senate from the Btate Arden for a period of two years. ^ croppings give returns from 510 to shone, even with the present showing, th.GoidHeid .f Nevada, and an active participant in' The ie.sees are the best-known hotel values of c?t^? at °oe of the greatest minM in th. world n? \ Peak there is M abun- an the events of the famous Comstock, n`o" in the State of Nevada and are at ^ present time are not sufficient to "I went over Montgomery Mountain and ' ) CAjM ^T<ida ^as selected Bullfrog as his future Present operating the Merchant's Hotel warrant the Shipment of the ores, but made a careful examination of it. I found A/ 3? I Valley there is ampie water for ail pres- home. He Is associated with Key Pitt- at Tonopah, Nevada, and the Merchant's there wiii undoubtedly be encountered it to consist of a series of paraiiei por- 'liV- *^*KBAJUC-<es irnuf^??he "an as counsel for your company. Columbia, Nevada ^ You are to rich shoots, as is customary -in such phyfy and rhyo!ite dikes, making numer- River m argos In establishing your new townsite it be congratuiated on the fact that these character of ledges in Southern Nevada, ohjp contacts, in each of which ore shouid ,t ? was considered best to give to the own- gentiem.ns.iect.d Buiifrog as the best particularly in th.GoidHeid mining dis- b. found. These dikes strike northeast j__________________________________________________________________________________ ^?oJi bho old towns gf Amar- location for a. hotel In the Bullfrog t;-lct The great values will be obtain- and southwest and cut the Montgomery- * * ff^ hm iMle^?at?-t*"? , , , ,. , , ed from this mine as well as from other Polaris, the Peery-Montgomery and the Consulting engineer for the Montana- they have shown no Indication of r*- but little water has been found, ad- lots and In the same blocks In the town Under and by virtue of the terms of properties In the district when facill- Montgomery-Shoshone. Tononah Tononah Extension the Me- gret though water can be brought Into the of Bullfrog as they occupied In the old the articles of Incorporation of your ties for milling the ores are obtained "PheiLmennt v.i,,.. ... ..... lonopati. lonopan extension, the Me gr t. ... .. , ^ — district j)y piping some twenty odd mites, townsites. Whiie this consumed a hum- company we have offered for sale 100,- This period is hot at a far distant date] found in the bottom of the twenty-two- K*"e'Schwab interests, the GoidReid- MorHs in 1902 and again In June* In addition to the district, mentioned, her of good lots, it gave you th. moral 000 shares of preferred stock at 51 per as Is evidenced froA the report of Mr. fom wmz. m, th" Momg^ry^Shosl^e f ^e GoidReid-Port)and.Co- 7L th.Durno.tof ^?min?natm! other districts In th. neighborhood support of the most substantial men In share, and in addition to th. 10 per Maicoim Macdonald which is published a?d the?ar? .?lem^fg^tthatJhouid Southwestern ^ the pu^M.^ ex<^imngtha which Are receiving attention and in Southern Nevada. cent interest the same bears hava of- in this i<3sue of The Call ' T extravagant tnat snouia Nevada, the Goidreed and other Ka- *teveme and the Montana-lonopan^ it which valuabi. Rnds of ore hay. been Since th. organization of th. town th. f,r.d a. an inducement for'th. ready The stockhoiders in th. company ar. Lndmfte fo?amMMc a^durn"??d^est properties, the phenomena] Mont- ^ * JroJ^ti^^^° dJv5! ^ mi!??J^t^Jn?h^n^ht M0 w^rm^f ^, r?ng!ut ?n f^ P"--cha.. .fth. same a bonus <^thr^ d.t.rmimd to prove their property a vn,?.^wer?^^d b? a ^?mp? mkJn §°^*mflct^?l^lv^yl°mng ^ D^p^ed wim wh^ ^ f^nd mt?,?ed ^ Nev^aTmn? ^trty! ^Ool^SO^p^^r^h^.'no^?^^ ?. tr^h^d ^ramer`th^^h.^,?^lh.fr^c? t th. bottom of tb. winze ^r;%^Jlr^S^?.i^"S .?".. Mr. Macd.nald^tum.d to Mon- which produced 5150.000 during its Rrst unsold on Main street and on Bonanza { grsHsu. of 25,000 shfres^?f the Jre- In pursuance ofthisth.ory they have the wbrne -'L ^be south to the old Comstock claims 1&° MtRd year's operation and has now a very val- both of which are business [ fet-red stock was purchased immediate- pooled all of their stock for an in- ' for shipment to the Sait Lake on the north, Maicoim L. Macdonaid. . uabie body of ore in sight. The ores in greets of the town, as near as we can ]y op.n its issue. It is ou?intJ^tion to d.Hnite period and until the mine is on This ore is not assorted. M. E„ was found to be an extremely He '°^ted permanent^ m T^nopah in J^one Mountain District are mostiy silver Y"^Fe^rom the latest reports, 109 lota offer another Issue of this preferred a seif-sustaintng basis. This, of<:ouree, L"present vaiues foundin the busy man. Whiie much of the data A"S""t, MO4. ^'s pr<^eMiOnsj career and lead, many of th. properties showing About 60 lots on th. back streets have ,t.cic ?t the sam?pr?c. w th th?sZ^. encourages the purchase of treasury , relative to th. wonderful resource, of "nee that time ha. been marked by veryhlghvaiu.slnsnver);theRayD!s- beensoid. There remain unsold In th. bonus stock, the proceed, of which go intorbe^.^M t.nsof ore in sig.u^ there are this part of Nevada have been obtained success after success Utilizing the trlct, situated eight mile, north of Tono- town.lt. In the neighborhood of ^gitional issue wiii c.m.l.t. the actuai d.veiopm.nt of the property, j 55,000,000 to 510.000.000 gross from Mr. Macdonaid, ail effort, to ob- ripened knowledge gained In hi. Utlgl- pa,h; the liberty District, thirty miies ^I^ston^-thM of the town- ^ insta.Ha,tion of the waiter system T*** cpmp^ny now has on hand in ^ ^ i anything of a personal nature ous Butte experience, he is k^wn and north of Tonopah: the ReveiHe District ** ^ unplatted. It is the lnten- ^ treasury from, the sale of treasury the Peery-Montgomery twotunneis from the gentleman himself met with blessed as the discoverer of th# rich- sixty mMese^d of Tonopah (where cnor- , y""** "a.uag.m.nt to reserve stock Over 510,6oo. and the management Ef" being driven, an upper and a lower, scant success. The Cali is indebted to tat and most productive body of ore mous developments of silver lead ore *-'* corner lots that the com- ^ f bas taken steps to commence the lm-{ These are rapldiy approaching th. con- the oid-time friends of this pre-eminent *" Ib*a camp. In bis honor they have have recently been made one property *"*f ^ proat by their enhanced ^ f mediate and systematic development of } tact, and I Brmiy beiieve that when the engineer—for he is so prociaimed by christened it the "Macdonald ledge. .^edt?h^.UOOMOMlu^hU ^ ^a- , ^ ? the property. This property, together'contact is reached ore win b. found, a. the mining men of this s.ctlon-for and some of th. principal mines of the Hton? Ahin District- the Cactus Snrings townsite Is most advantageous- the Interest thereon, an Ice plant with with the property of the Goidreed Mines ' the same conditions exist on this property the notes which foitow re)attve to the camp Hgure on paying dividend, from D??Lt^mmed fortvlrni^s.?th.^Lof *!-----------------------------------------------------------* ^ ^ 1 .tonsa Company ar. sufficient to brand th. as exist on th. Montgomery-Shoshone. career of the young man who. probabiy it for year, to come. While the vein T`o^^rn- th. Gold ^Mountain District, will he render*, e^e<!.hie th..* < . ^ ^ Y'V *`A '^^taiied. We confidently camp as a wonderful mining district I Also, ore has just been broken Into in the more than any other, has demonstrated might or might not have been dls- of Tononah- the Klon available, thue *"Sur- expect In the next monthly statement even were there no other valuable prop-iMoatgomery-Foiaris. about 600 feet from to Investing capltailsts the vaiue and covered iater, It wae under hi. in.i.t- m Mxmeu Jn?^um m Um. and ^eat^ct.mL" " °' ^°b. able to announce that the 555.000 .rti.s in the district, which is not a the tunn.i. on th. P.ery-M.ntg.m.ry permanency of 8.uthern N?va<^ mtn^ ent direction that th. work wa. pro.e- ??h - Uie G^!d C?^t.r ^ activity. n.cessaly for the redemption of the fact. Mountain Mining Company's property. Briefly, he was bom In Nevada with- cuted which uncovered It. In th. varl- d^dnttn?entv miles I-........................................................................ ,. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________ . In sight of historic Mount Davidson, ous companies with which he is oon- southeast of GoidReid* _____________________ —————————^gcg}y[ng hi, education In California, nected hie advice la followed Implicit- the Svlvanla district! ,t/- VSHT^sga— _____ In 1852 he located In Butte, Mont., be- ly and .eemlngly with Mtonlahhrgly twAntv-Hva mllea - _mm nm! m --------r— coming a#aociated with the o!d firm of uniform aucceaa. The peopie of tnia southwest of Silver Ha jjM Baker Harper and afterward ^au^- aection #U*t# S# Sot miles ^*stm^wes^*"of ^ ^ ^ " ^ connection ^wR!?"t ha<^charg?*'of*th* eariyin the moming.*a burner of'the Lida Valley district In ^ '3! - ' i ' . ' „ St^*- -;-' H construction of the celebrated Big Hole midnight oil, possessed of wonderful all these districts ac- dam,the.ourceofthewatersuppiyof executlveabUltyandashrewd,Bootch tlve prospecting and y i t *- ^ . #[j Butte and the Immense smeitlng plant common sense which gets to the meat development is in pro- ^f! of the Anaconda mine, located at the of things and Impels him to do things, gress and prospectors <77 zip!/-" ^ ,dl3nn ll town of that name. Associated with In addition to his work as advisor to are spreading from ail George H. Robinson, he was the prin-lmany of the large corporation, of thl. ar?*bmng IrMtter^ln f !e Me"ef^e 1promlMng°mlne/*ln* the . . PamRc*Coast^and\rtth tRlS[!ng profession, he ha. proven himself ... .^,. .. . thT*°..&2? US ' ^ ^yt. the running and ha. mad. ..me 40.0 feet e.yh.f the.h^h.n. nromlsed railroad fa- good- He there received a schooling ere the holdings of the Bullfrog ha- 2lH^s and th??dvent ! 4t -Lsuch as few men can obtain. At M tlonal Bank Mining Company In Ladd (two companies are "Jf. L# !;.'< ; i i fi <1 !i***i ^ P^**#onaioy prorea#:onai probity orm a##ays a# hlah a# $$o$ oor bringing In power) and ^"lim: I ill,)[H ,t , ^ 'T " T" tJm ^ ' th# constant increase *,WWwtMXMu advlc# of this engineer that th# F^rrcU ' ^ < ^ in water and milling * ' WnV!W$Vi H"WWWfWW Copp#r Company incr#as#d their hold- The Buiifrog Red Mountain M!niag *-^eUikiM2 these ores * _____________________________________ / ing# in Butt# to th# #xt#nt of some- Company are doing much development -a — ------- ..- .... ....................................................... ....................... ...............e#! thine ilk# MB Ml MM nnA un 1* thin data work, with favorable indication#.