Show MINING EXCITEMENTS I START BY ACCIDENT Illustrated in Discoveries of Goldfield Tonopah and Bullfrog SHORTY H HARRISS HARRIS'S ILL LUCK Disclosed Location Loc tion of Strike Too Soon Rich Claims Were Vere Taken Many Iran of or the tho great eat mining excitements excite excite- mt ments of the t e have h been en started almost almos by hy accident says ns n's Earle Earll It 11 Clements editor 0 of the Her r aid ald If Senator T. T 1 L. L had hall not consented to have ns assayed the rock found by Jim Jima Cutler on Oil the MIzpah Tonopah ml might ht never nevel have become a great camp If the opinion of or a so- so t O- O called expert concerning the J Jumbo um bo I had not been disregarded Goldfield might n never I have been hen known Iwon If Ir Shorty hort Harris and amid Ernest Jrnest Cross hail had hadnot I not wandered from ronI iii Ih the beaten trail in their journey across the thc Amargosa 1 desert Bullfrog night I neVer e have Ilave had hada a place upon the map of oC Nevada I Short Shorty Harris has started more mining excitements than thun nn any 1113 man In iii Inthe Inthe the Southwest t. t Ills principal achievement achieve achieve- m flOut ment nt was in August 1904 when he lie and Cross staked the tho original Bullfrog Bullfrog Bull Bull- frog mine mimic 7 75 miles lOBes south of Gold Cold Held In a country In which there wore not a n dozen white p people There Thre were few trails ails and few watering places place Traveling north toward making makin a tt bee line for fOI or their destina- destina lion tion depending upon their pack train I of burros for or water until Thorps Thom Well should shou be lie b reached a n. quartz tz blowout t tan an arrested their theiL a attention Upon urns pros rosI ros- I peeling the they found stringers els el's of goon grcen i chloride stain In which Filch Wl were Ie specks s o or of I tree free gold A few ow strokes of the I revealed re better hetter ore ore the tho quartz alivo ali with ito tho yellow metal This spot was vas R so far Isolated from fron rein civilization that Harris Hals and Cross Cros nade maele no other locations locutions lii thinking inking that the tile discovery would bo ho safe until luch Ruch time as they could return ret from Crom with an all outfit for work worl Arriving at they disclosed th the location of or tho the strike I am and l hundreds of or men ru hed southward toward the cone of oC the thc new holy find Harris ned rc with the Ole rush hut but succeeded In securing bur but bu buton butriC on r ne riC adjoining claim dalm Wit iI Why He lle Called 1 It rt Tho rho name Bullfrog was ti-as given n to towe ho we first Jo location atlon because so 80 Shorty Short says ays the stringers rs of green stain swin it ithe In th he quartz re reminded him o of the thc on Oil a bullfrogs bullfrog's back hack Within a f few w we weeks ks the thc Bullfrog mining district d was wa organized the net embracing bracing m a territory I 1 15 ij miles long ong by ten miles wide and tile the re recorders recorder's reorders reorder's re- re orders Border s oHice was placed at the new newtown town own o of Amar Amargosa The fhe new town was iii fairly faill started stared however howe when lien still till greater gi discoveries eriN of ore were wet node In lii other parts o of the and i ml tile the center of or activity Il was sud- sud tenly shifted from flom coma Amar Amargosa o 1 to which town Is situated between be- be e- e colt tween La Ladd Bonanza and nd ory ry m mountains lil in II hl n Is is il noW no termed the golden hUl horseshoe esho Tile The town own of Bonanza was was- likewise moved bodily OdilY to 10 Rh and ami Bullfrog and Rhyolite began a I fight f ht for acy cy The lite I were only a t mile part apart and cOld ere re long tile tho towns were united totted Ie resulting finally In the removal o f business s s Interests from front Bullfrog nto Into the tile permanent town Ion Long logs tm-logs of mules anti and horses hOI ls l's were wen Itched lcd to the tile frame store stoic buildings s nd house moving mo continued until Bullfrog as a business center has almo al- al mo lOst t ceased to tu be he Since Shorty horty Harris han staked the claim wonders have ha boOn been forked in southern Nevada Senator Y V. V A. A Clark saw siw the opportunity and built the lie Las Vegas I Tonopah rall- rall war ray now finished hell Into The fhe railway Int interests lest l'est jealous o of he lie encroachment of If the Clark road are re building an extension from Gold- Gold fie eld to with Hh Clark for or the thc of the Bullfrog district and Borax Smith Is headed l for Rhyolite with i the to Tonopah Tidewater railia rail rall- way vay which is a branch ch of the Santa Fe e C |