Show I PLAYING BALL DISCOVERS GOLD Billy Griffiths of Salt Lake Makes Rich Find in Bullfrog GETS VALUABLE INTEREST T HAV OFFER OF FOR FIND Special to The Herald Hera Bullfrog District Nev RHYOLITE r June the game between the teams leams or of Rb Rhyolite olite and Beatty Gd fl h of Salt Lake City Utah play i in f for the Rh t lm reached down dOD to stop a 8 fast grounder with visions of an easy put putout out for hi lila team when the ball struck a small mash stone slone and hounded bounded away While waiting for the ball to be returned by antI of the s spectators he picked up the stone which he found to be lull full of free gold The game was as plaYed on the property of the Shoshone National Bank Mining company which Is on the flat fiat between Ladd and Montgomery mountains Griffith put the stone in I his pocket and late at night with the aid o of a lantern p the region I where he made hi his find With a pros prospectors pedor hammer he knocked off about t tOn n pounds of rock and by the aid or of his assayers outfit Jl learned that It ran 7 per ton toll Griffith conveyed O eed the knowlt knowledge dgE of his find to one or two insiders in who immediately immediate I negotiated for the purchase of an in intereSt terest in the company and secured it itt at t what hat is s considered a white chip chipin in ohe The superintendent at once order ordered a shaft sunk on the spot in to the one already being sunk at another t r on the prop property erty aty Less than felt feet away at a ade de depth or of feet this shaft baft ha has already aheady disclosed a formation that makes it i a certainty that the shaft is on OH a ledge that is a Continuation of the Bullfrog National Bank Minin Mining com company Ii I pany famous led ledge It is reported that Griffith hRS hs been offered profit for tit int he hc secured with withIn In the i st t ele bourse |