Show SOMETHING DOING at searchlight HT SPECIAL correspondence searchlight nev nov 10 the railroad grading has been moved to within a short distance of town and the work is progressing with more speed than heretofore owing to the cool weather and the fact that the contractors are able to secure more labor the manville stage running along this line will soon be discontinued as local buss can handle the passenger and express business at less cost and more to the public lots have been platted and a site selected for the station house on the boulder group of claims adjoining the cyrus noble property henry B adsit manager of the colorado mining and milling company is down feet in his bis double compartment shaft the volume of water steadily increases indicating that they are close to a large body of paying ore as in the entire searchlight district not a single shaft has gone to water level without encountering mineral in paying quantities at camp thurman near newberry mountain a townsite is being formed by B S nagle of butte montana he has located eight claims and reports that he has shipped two sacks of ore to los angeles as samples which show exceptionally high values earnest G mining engineer from seattle has bought the golden rod group of cliame lying 1 14 1 4 miles from town for there is a remarkably good showing on assays essays taken from samples on this property the same running as high as the vein droppings crop pings extend the entire length of the three claims several shafts have been commenced the deepest being about fifty feet A contract has been let for feet more work which will commence at once the newberry mountain district proper is attracting wide attention many prospectors pec tors mining engineers and curiosity seekers take in this territory when visiting searchlight and a large number of claims have been located reports are very favorable and numerous outfits have been made up here bound for that district the owners of the gold dyke have arranged with contractors for the continuation of their feet shaft considering the small amount of development work done on this property the showing are remarkably good and it is generally considered that thai the mine has a great future artesian wells are to be sunk in searchlight for irrigation purposes the soil here As s exceedingly fertile and where experiments have been made with irrigating such as was done on a large garden plot on the pompeii property the best possible results have been obtained the so called desert is doomed as far as this particular locality is concerned work 0 wells will be commenced immediately with competent engineers in charge A good showing has been made on the sunday morning group of claims a mile north of the original strike at trull springs this property is owned by E P trull L N strapp and A B brook they will commence development work in the course of ten days eldorado canyon IS 18 miles from here is is developing fast and all their supplies are hauled from searchlight by teams they have plenty of water this is an old camp lately revived with several new strikes the gold dyke mining company have a ver tica shaft feet deep and a 50 foot crosscut to the south the same lead found on the blossom and pompeii is plainy traceable across this property they cut a 20 foot vein of which asasys from 1500 to per ton the indications from the outcroppings outcrop pings and development are that there is practically a mountain of ore the com banys officers state that they will sink to the foot level whether water is encountered or not and will also put in milling machinery GEO J in our issue of october 30 reference was made to the american antimony company a corporation formed in butte for the purpose of operating antimony mines ginesin mi in garfield county utah owned by benj hampton of salt lake it now transpires that the name of the company was incorrectly given and that the real title is the utah antimony company which has purchased outright for cash the properties owned by mr hampton and that the company is making arrangements to operate these antimony mines upon a large scale the company is headed by thompson campbell william C dierks louis P saunders and other noted capitalists of butte together with mr hampton geo T odell and grant hampton of salt lake it is incorporated for shares of a par value of 1 each of which shares have been set aside for treasury purposes the company owns nine patented claims situated in the heart of the antimony district in garfield county also mill sites and abundant water power for milling purposes the names of A H and E L godbe the well known mining engineers of salt lake appear as two of the incorporators having acted for mr hampton in that capacity however neither of these gentlemen are connected with the company having all that they can attend to with their extensive nevada interests |