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Bullfrog Mining District History
Rhyolite Bottling Works

Rhyolite Bottling Works Letterhead

By Claudia Reidhead

It is hard to establish just when Mr. John Zwiefel first arrived in the Bullfrog Mining District. He was an early arrival, because the April 24, 1905 edition of the Beatty Bullfrog Miner established that Donnelly and Zwifel bought property at the head of Golden Street in Rhyolite for a bottling works. Records show Donnelly and Zwiefel purchased Block 39 Lot 6 for $500.00 on April 19 from the Rhyolite Townsite Company. On May 5, 1905, the Rhyolite Herald ran this advertisement in their classified section:


Rhyolite Bottling Works
John Zwiefel Proprietor
All kinds of Sodas & Soft Bottled Goods
Agent for Salt Lake City Beer

The business gave a portion of the property in 1906 to the Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad for grade. The Rhyolite Bottling Works was still in operation in 1913 but gone in 1915.


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