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Show and night loading .heavy machinery for the mines at Greenwatr, and it requires re-quires dozens of stages and other conveyances con-veyances to take care of the passenger passen-ger traffic. The excitement over Green-water Green-water is intense all through the south-em south-em part of the Staie. " . OEE AND! BULLION. Copper was quoted locally this morning morn-ing at $21.46 per hundred pounds, silver sil-ver at 69 cents pen ounce, and lead at $8.75 per hundred pounds. The last previcusly made settling basis for copper cop-per among the Silt Lake ore buyers was $20.68, hence the advance of the last week aggregates 78 cents per hundred hun-dred pounds, w The feilver quotation shows a decline during the last three days from 70e. Settlements yesterday for ores mar-keted mar-keted in Salt Lake, according to Mc-Corniek Mc-Corniek & Co. 'a report), aggregated $92,-500; $92,-500; bullion, $53,000; .total, $150300. Ores released this morning by the Taylor & Brunton Sampling company included one car from.1 California, six from Nevada, one from Bingham, two from American Fork, three from Tintic, and one from Nephi. Clearances from the Pioneer Sam- rling company's plant included three rom Tintic, two from Bingham, four from Stockton, and one from Opbir. An interesting word. picture of "the Bullfrog, Nev., district, . as it appears since. the opening of the railroad jnto Beatty, was painted this morning by . George H. 'Raymond, "one of the first : returned -of the Salt Lake visitors dur- ing the BaUroad day celebration, which commenced last Monday. He had Just come in, over the San Pedro Koute, having preferred not to await until the other excursionists start home. " ': There were 200 to 300 visitors there from Salt Lake and Los Angeles," said Mr Bavmond, "and the crowd at the celebration numbered between 2000 and 3000, which was large, considering the remoteness of the district from other camps, the sparsely settled country, and the Ion? distances visitors had to - travel in reaching Bullfrog. Everybody was well treated, however, and the citizens cit-izens of the district acquitted them salves with much glory. "The Bullfrog district has more than J he public on the outside appreciates, t is going ahead fast. There are perhaps per-haps 3000 people in the district, and Ehyolite is building fast of permanent substantial brick and concrete mate-, mate-, rials. Everybody believes the town has , come to stay, and these opinions are based on the showings the various mines have already made. "Fifteen of the mines have ore . sacked ready to ship as soon as the railroad can haul it out. The largest , shipper will be the Shoshone Montgomery, Montgom-ery, which has 5000 sacks in an enor-' enor-' ' moos pile that is as big as a big house. . Two trains will be required to haul out this ere alone. I was told that the mine will be shipping right along of its high gTades such as are now sacked, and that -. the mill for this property is on the , road. - "Among the other shippers are the Gold Bar, which has a regular bonanza shoet of ore opened, and all the force . is sackin; from it that can be secured. This ore is very high grade. "There is an'immense pile of sacked ore at the Denver for shipment; also riles of it at the Gibraltar, Tramp, Hobo Fraction, Mavflower and Starlight. Star-light. It all constitutes a great many trainloads. All these mines also have ores available for stoping and adequate reserves to supply several mills it the eame were in operation. "And the mills are coming fast. The Bullfrog Gold Mining companv, with , ground about midway between Khyolite . . and Beatty, has purchased water rights and will build a mill upon its evn property. prop-erty. The Mayflower lias a mill under consideration;- and of course :he big mill that the Shoshone Montgomery is to have will be the largest of" any owned by sny of the mining companies, t "At a point about nine miles north of Rhyolite. on the Armagosa river, the excavations are being made for the bijnrest mill in all Nevada. It will have 1000 tons per day capacity, and includes stamps, concentration and cyanide facilities. The Brock,' Goldfiejd & Bullfrog railroad management has guaranteed a rate to this plant from . Gold,eld of $1.50 per toni and is alto- f ether probable that a7 large tonnage rom Goldneld will be, handled. " It has been a case with the Goldfield mine owners of taking their lower grades to water, and this arrangement gives promise of Solving the treatment problem satisfactorily. There is plenty of water in the' Armagosa river, where the mill is being built for the npbuilding of an enormous milling industrylarge in-dustrylarge enough for not onlv Goldfield.but also Bullfrog ores that may-have to go to a custom plant. And the fact that there is thus going to be a market for all Bullfrog low grades is to be a great benefit for the smaller operators who could not otherwise secure se-cure immediate returns. The rate from Bullfrog to this new mill will be low possiblv not above 75 cents per ton. "The Brock railroad from Goldfield has been completed to within thirty miles of Rhyolite, and the grade is five miles nearer. Bullfrog will therefore ' have two routes, in. and out by rail. The terminals of the Brock 3-stem are at the old Bullfrog townsite. . "The , northern and northwestern . parts of the .district are turning out wonderfully rich. The Ma3"flower in the northern part is conceded to be a big mine now, and is improving every day.1 It is about five miles from the Montgomery Shoshone. . "Near tne Mayflower, the Starlight is working on . the same ledge, and is getting big ore. A little further to the east and in the same heavily impregnated im-pregnated territory of gold-are the properties of the Bullfrog-Colorado and Bullfrog Charter companies being operated by Charles E. Barrick of Denver, Den-ver, Colo., all of which are making showings that suggest mines just as rich as the Mayflower when further work is -done upon them. Depth on. the ledges and then some crosscutting seems to be the only necessary preliminary pre-liminary to get the ore, not only here but all through the Bullfrog district. wThe same Eastern company that is building the big mill north of the district dis-trict is also preparing to erect a mammoth mam-moth electric power plant for supplying supply-ing power to all the mines, at a nomi-' nomi-' sal cost. "The stocks of the various producing produc-ing mines, and the prospects also may be depended upon by investors . to travel the same gait of advancement during the next few months that has been witnessed at Goldfield. For this reason many buyers are getting in now on the- planes which are considered low, in comparison with what they will be a year hence. Three hundred shares of the Bullfrog Shoshone Sho-shone Gold Mining company have just been sold to the chief officers of the National Cracker Trust at 40 cents per hare, and these men now have 500,000 shares almost the control. The com-' com-' pany's property adjoins the Shoshone Montgomery on the northwest, and the ground is to be opened by .vigorous de-. de-. velopment as soon as the arrangements can be made. "On the Montgomery Mountain there is as fine a showing as the district dis-trict contains, and the work is' being pushed, so that it should come in very early as a shipper. In fact it is not spealdDg too optimistically to say that - the Bullfrog district will have fifty or more shippers within a year. "There are enormous quantities of freight going, in, much-of . which-is ma-, ma-, - chinery, seven cars of machinery for the Bonnie Claire mine were there when I left. - "At Armagosa Junction, where the passengers and shipments leave the railroad t6e Green water and Johnnie camp, the scenes of activity and boom are exceedingly impressive. - Hundreds - of freight teams scramble there day A |