http://www.rhyolitenevada.com/news_archives Database of newspaper clippings that feature Rhyolite, Nevada and the Bullfrog Mining District. en-us RHYOLITE HAS PLENTY OF ORE OPERATORS ARE WAITING FOR THE RAILROAD Roads into the District Better Now Than Ever Before -- Camp is Building Up Rapidly. RHYOLITE, February 8. -- The following mines in the Bullfrog district either made shipments of ore during the past week or have new ore sacked ready for transportation: Montgomery, Shoshone, National Bank, Original, Tramp Consolidated and Mayflower. The Shoshone shipped three cars of high-grade ore to the Salt Lake smelters and has sacked ready for shipment more ore than can be handled by the railroad company in weeks. The Tramp Consolidated is directly in line with the right of way of the Goldfield extension of the Las Vegas and Tonopah road and while ore is being blocked out and piled on the dumps, it is probable that no shipment will be made until some time next week, as the new road will pass directly below the Tramp dumps at that time. The Hobo claim of the Tramp has with the Denver three carloads of ore ready for shipment. The Bullfrog National Bank has twelve tons of ore sacked for shipment to Salt Lake. The Diamond Bullfrog has high grade sacked for shipment. The Original has ore stacked for shipment, but probably will put in a mill on the ground. Superintendent Bedford of the Gold Bar started hauling a thirty ton shipment to the railroad. After twelve tons were dragged over the roads the attempt was given up for the time being as the railroad will be close to the mine within fifteen days. The Gibraltar is in the same condition. No shipments will be made until they can be made cheaply. http://www.rhyolitenevada.com/news_archives/rhyolite-nevada-and-bullfrog-mining-district-news-archive/rhyolite-has-plenty-of-ore-153.html Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:40:07 GMT http://www.rhyolitenevada.com/news_archives/rhyolite-nevada-and-bullfrog-mining-district-news-archive/rhyolite-has-plenty-of-ore-153.html MINING NEWS OF ALL NEVADA STATE The North Star of Bullfrog on Wednesday of this week with the long tunnel cut into the big vein for which it was advanced. The last shots disclosed a magnificent wall standing almost vertical but dipping slightly eastward on the bottom. The vein matter is a fine grain and is partly decomposed quartz that pans a regular streak. This in the upper level was six feet wide and the managers and miners are firmly convinced that it will be very much wider at this greatly increased depth. At fifty feet depth the vein gave returns as high as $118. * * * Good values have been uncovered in the Gold Top No. 1 at Rhyolite. The claim is owned by Jimmie Hughes and Jack Thomas and while doing assessment work a ledge ten inches wide and assaying $1270 was cut on the surface and at a depth of ten feet has widened to two and a half feet and carries average values of $7930. The crosscut from the 200 level of the Daisy at Bullfrog struck the ore 113 feet west of the shaft and the crosscut is now seventy feet in ore that carries general average values of $14 per ton in gold. * * * The Montgomery Shoshone Extension is now equipped with a complete hoisting plant and all necessary surface buildings and a campaign of vigorous development has been begun. The force has been increased and the main working shaft will be driven to the 400 level. * * * Bullfrog Victor reports a promising strike at a depth of forty feet in the new shaft. On top the vein was between eight and ten inches wide, but is now two feet wide and shows lots of gold. * * * The Bullfrog West Extension had a fifty-eight foot vein, streaks in which, from three to five feet, run from $1,000 to $5,000 to the ton. On the 125 foot level jewelry values were secured. * * * The new mining camp of Schwab is flourishing, the accommodations are of the best, plenty of water and the weather perfect. Regular auto trips are being made between this place and Rhyolite. http://www.rhyolitenevada.com/news_archives/rhyolite-nevada-and-bullfrog-mining-district-news-archive/mining-news-of-all-nevada-state-152.html Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:37:22 GMT http://www.rhyolitenevada.com/news_archives/rhyolite-nevada-and-bullfrog-mining-district-news-archive/mining-news-of-all-nevada-state-152.html RHYOLITE TO HAVE HANDSOME HOTEL Forty Thousand Dollars Already Subscribed Toward Hundred Thousand Dollar Structure for Mining City Special to The Herald. RHYOLITE, Nev., Feb. 4. -- Rhyolite is to have a new $100,000 hotel, and $40,000 already has been subscribed by business men of the district toward its erection. The hotel will be erected on the corner of Golden and Esmeralda streets, and architects already are busy with the preliminary drawings. The Rhyolite hotel will have $50,000 paid into its treasury before a stone is turned for its erection, and the following sums already have been pledged by local business men for its erection.  F W Dunn $10,000  C E Dunham 10,000  E H Crawford 5,000  L O Ray 5,000  Curtis Mann 5,000  Louis Schloss 2,000  Voorhees & Taylor 1,000  John G Murphy 1,000  Sam T Lindsley 1,000 Since the opening of the Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad the mines of the Bullfrog district have been able to make shipments of high-grade ore that were impossible until six weeks ago. A recent shipment of five carloads of ore from the Gibraltar to the Salt Lake smelters gave a return of $241 to the ton. The Gibraltar is still stacking high-grade ore that is coming out in the process of development and another shipment will be made within the two weeks. The Tramp Consolidated has two and a half carloads of ore already sacked for shipment, while the dump in front of the working is practically all milling ore. http://www.rhyolitenevada.com/news_archives/rhyolite-nevada-and-bullfrog-mining-district-news-archive/rhyolite-to-have-handsome-hotel-151.html Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:34:42 GMT http://www.rhyolitenevada.com/news_archives/rhyolite-nevada-and-bullfrog-mining-district-news-archive/rhyolite-to-have-handsome-hotel-151.html BIG CROWDS HEAR BULLFROG TALKS ILLUSTRATED ADDRESS ON NEW MINING CAMP Mine Operators in the Bullfrog District Desire to Trade in Los Angeles Special Train to Rhyolite The daily lectures generously illustrated by stereopticon views given at the Los Angeles chamber of commerce assembly hall in the interest of the Bullfrog mining district are having the effect of enthusing the people of this city to a point of interest in the Southern Nevada gold camp that has never before been reached. Throngs of interested people fill the assembly hall daily and from the attention paid to the lecturers and the questions fired at the speakers from Rhyolite it is evident that the excursion tomorrow to the Bullfrog district will be a large one. The crowd at yesterday morning's session was particularly large and enthusiastic, and when Frank P Mannix, editor of the Rhyolite Miner, who was sent to Los Angeles by the Rhyolite board of trade to relieve Mr. Clemens, finished his address he was surrounded by men and women who plied all sorts of questions about Bullfrog; about certain mines and stocks; about the chances for this or that line of business; about employment, wages, and weather, etc. Urged to Visit Bullfrog Mr. Mannix asked all who possibly could spare the time and expense to go to Bullfrog and see for themselves whether or not the reports made about the mines and conditions of that camp were true. "Don't take my word for it," said Mr. Mannix. "Don't take anyone else's word for it -- not even that of your best friend, but if you want to see what Bullfrog offers to investors; if you are desirous of investing in mines, or stocks, or real estate, or embarking in the mercantile business, the thing to do is to see what you are getting. This is what you do when you are buying a home in Los Angeles or when you order a suit of clothes or a bonnet. The Bullfrog invites inspection. This is the reptile's long suit. Familiarity breeds respect for the mining camp on the banks of the roaring Amargosa. "It is said, with some coloring of truth, that Los Angeles is missing a great opportunity by not working up to the importance of the Southern Nevada mining camps, especially that one which I have the honor of representing and which I believe will be the greatest and most lasting mining district in the world. The Comstock of nearly a half century ago made a metropolis of San Francisco. The Bullfrog of the new Nevada can and may make a greater metropolis of Los Angeles. The trade of the camps in our section of the Sagebrush state and those in the southeastern part of your own state naturally belongs to Los Angeles. You have the best of Salt Lake, as transportation facilities at present are afforded, by over a hundred miles. Not only this, but our people are favorably inclined toward this beautiful city, its commercial houses and its people. They want to buy their mining supplies here; they want you to supply them with their foodstuffs and raiment, as well as with many of their necessary diversions and amusements. For all of these we are willing to pay prevailing prices and profits." http://www.rhyolitenevada.com/news_archives/rhyolite-nevada-and-bullfrog-mining-district-news-archive/big-crowds-hear-bullfrog-talks-150.html Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:44:41 GMT http://www.rhyolitenevada.com/news_archives/rhyolite-nevada-and-bullfrog-mining-district-news-archive/big-crowds-hear-bullfrog-talks-150.html RHYOLITE TO HAVE STOCK EXCHANGE RHYOLITE, Nev., Jan. 20. -- The Rhyolite Mining Stock Exchange was formed yesterday with seventy-five chapter members. More than fifty applications were received from outside brokers and mining men for seats. Captain George W Thatcher of Denver was elected president; J L Cadogan, vice president; C K Vaughn, secretary, and George R Keenan, treasurer. The price of seats to charter members was fixed at $150 and the governing board was authorized to sell fifty additional seats at $200 each. The exchange will erect its own building. The first regular call will be held in the middle of February. Owners of all the leading mines in the district have applied to the governing committee to have their properties listed. http://www.rhyolitenevada.com/news_archives/rhyolite-nevada-and-bullfrog-mining-district-news-archive/rhyolite-to-have-stock-exchange-149.html Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:42:43 GMT http://www.rhyolitenevada.com/news_archives/rhyolite-nevada-and-bullfrog-mining-district-news-archive/rhyolite-to-have-stock-exchange-149.html