The Mining World
January 8, 1910: William Bowser, while doing his annual work on the Bullfrog claims, struck a small streak of
rich gold ore.
January 15, 1910: The Montgomery-Shoshone Consolidated Company reports for October: Receipts from shipments of
concentrates and bullion from operations of subsidiary companies, $22,461; expenses of Montgomery-Shoshone Company
and subsidiary companies, $25,913; net loss $3,452; bills payable, including all loans to Montgomery-Shoshone
Company, with accrued interest to date, $202,884. The net loss in October was due to severe rains at Rhyolite,
causing extensive caving, interrupting ordinary mining and necessitating the removal of large quantities of waste.
General Manager Kirchen estimates that the operating profits of the company for the month of November will be about
$10,000.
January 15, 1910: The Trent Engineering Company, Los Angeles, California, recently made the following shipments
of its slime agitators: four to the Tonopah Extension Mining Company, Tonopah; one to Montgomery Shoshone Mining
Company; six to Bonnie Clare Mining Company, Nevada; three to Nova Scotia Silver Cobalt Company, Cobalt, Canada;
one to Desert Mill Mining Company, Tonopah, Nevada. The latter agitator is 36 feet in diameter and 20 feet
high.
January 22, 1910: Mining operations in the Bullfrog district were rather dull last year. The Montgomery-Shoshone
maintained active operations during the first half of the year but later the production fell off.
January 22, 1910: The Keane Wonder developed into one of the foremost producers of the Bullfrog district and led
all other Inyo properties in the way of production, its annual yield running about $350,000. Much territory was
opened in the lower workings and several new veins intersected.
February 26, 1910: The report of the Montgomery-Shoshone Consolidated Mining Company for the year ending
December 31, 1907 shows: Proceeds of bullion and concentrates ... $446,224; Cost of mining and milling, including
depreciation and all other Nevada expenses except legal ... $325,755; Interest ... $14,589; Administration expenses
all companies ... $19,175; Total ... $350,520; Profit for year ... $83,703. During the year 6982 feet of
development work was done, including drifts, crosscuts, raises and winzes. The company now has broken and stored in
the various stopes in the mine 9500 tons of ore, the average assay of which is estimated at $6.50 per ton.
March 12, 1910: John Gallagher, formerly of the Homestake mine, Rhyolite, Nevada, has been appointed
superintendent of the Ely Central property at Ely, Nevada.
March 12, 1910: The tunnel being driven by the Bullfrog Gold Center Water & Mills, Ltd., under the
management of J J Post, has been driven 604 feet, about one-tenth the length planned for it to be. This company
owns 22 claims on the hills above the townsite of Gold Center. The tunnel is designed to cut through nearly all of
the claims and will have to have a length of about 6500 feet. It will then tap the farthest vein at a depth of 1500
feet. After driving 60 feet the tunnel cut through a body of milling ore 27 feet. Between that point and 500 feet,
two other veins, much smaller, were passed through. At the 600-foot point the last vein was encountered. This vein
rises above the tunnel level but two feet, showing that it was found at its apex. While it is mineralized, a part
of it shows no values of consequence. A winze will probably be sunk when work is resumed. Between the 600 and 800
foot points of the tunnel three more veins will be tapped.
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