Show ACTIVITY AT sea searchlight D INCREASED arx alc r SPECIAL correspondence searchlight nevada may 10 the recent disaster in san francisco has been felt in the searchlight district to a certain extent yet the wheels of progress did not stop neither will be the loss be felt to any exceeding extent as searchlight had practically little or no security on the san francisco exchange contributions to the stricken city were sent immediately amounting I 1 to grant bros the big railroad contractors who have secured the contract for building the railroad from manvel to searchlight have agreed to complete the ithe road in ninety days and are rushing work to the utmost car after car of men tools and implements are coming in every day in order to facilitate the work of the large outfit another company operating within the town limits is the nevada searchlight sd i of the principal working 1 is S being pushed lugt with the greatest possible speed a and 11 d as s as water is secured in this shaft the tw T new stamps now on the ground will imide be added to the twenty stamps 11 in active operation A company claiming to own ground it in searchlight is offering stock in colorado and the east at one cent per share UD to t date no one seems to know where the coz con pany hasi has any ground in this di district neither does one know such any a company it n certainly looks like a get rich buic scheme and it is needless to tg say everyone should investigate such a mythical concern thoroughly before investing a cent the public generally blames the camp for such investments when in reality they have nothing to blame but their own credulity the directorate of the cyrus noble MI con at 0 aa 4 L jw INI ra plant of the southern nevada aaning milling co this new company has the mineral rights under both the grand central and the arizona town sites which are adjacent to the main portion of searchlight the buster group of five claims has been acquired by dawson mckenzie under bond these thes e claims lie in th the nofi nob hill district mr allen alien who will remain in charge of development work states that it is the intention of of the company to start operations immediately by means of a drift tunnel in the ma main n ve vein in as several hundred foot depth can be secured with such a tunnel and a large body of excellent cellena t ore can be blocked bloc ked out cut the quartette mine has har opened up the ore body on the foot level thus demonstrating the huge body of ore that this mine m ing has at so great a depth the day bay state shaft that this company is sinking west pany has declared a one per cent dividend divi desil to be paid not later than june this dividend would have been paid earlier had it not been for the company being under q such heavy expense in making 0 improvements both above and below groudel grou A A new company has been organized under the name of the searchlight mutual I 1 consisting of san Der bernardina nardina and Red redland landl 9 capital this company will operate its prop pro k eray immediately which is situated OB 01 4 IF fourth 0 arth of july mountain and is considered consider 0 one of the best holdings in that district tb superintendent mr de puy in speaking 01 the property said our vein is one of WO von darful it cu CUB strength and continuity through the country as straight as an f a row for several thousand feet th the W w are clearly defined and I 1 would say W th 4 the ave average rage width of the ledge e is fully 1 4 feet we shall sink and exploit the ground mediately immediately rushing such work to the utmost ast 11 the venture company of england has lad ad its representative mr M P jones 3 oking over the searchlight district mr fones nes states that he has secured two im octant properties and will be back within week in order to consummate the deal as be e is extremely well pleased with we the showing 9 the fabulously rich ore found last week in the property of the searchlight mining illing company still continues and with envelopment isi increasing in size this ore s a gouge matter consisting of tale talc and nely powdered quartz almost identical to he fabulously rich ore in the goldfield dis brict act the ore in the goldfield however is n the surface as the oxide zone in gold eld only extends to a depth of feet hile this rich ore is found at foot depth nd ind the oxide zone will easily extend bend the 1000 foot depth this company fill 11 add more surface improvements by erecting many new cottages for its em loyes A new strike has been reported about wo 0 miles east of searchlight in a white sedimentary edi conglomerate this ore is iden ical to that found in south africa and aus ralia an and d is very prevalent throughout ne ada especially espedia lly is this found true in the N I 1 S searchlight earch light district prof stearling a no ed mining geologist said in part that he would advise all miners and prospectors in levada to exa examine mine all of the so called ce ent ore very carefully with their hand lenses anses because if such cement was found j contain quartz a good vein of quartz was ery ry likely underneath the formation I 1 the mill odthe of the southern nevada is again working forking with its old time activity and add ing ng materially to the bullion output of the camp amp the new parallel ledge is giving such encouraging results th that at this company has arterially ateria lly increased the force at work and developments will continue as heretofore t ELDORADO the venus and mountain groups are continuing with exceptional results resul tsi and from specimens specimens mens brought into searchlight these properties are still in the good ore that was discovered discovered covered lis some time ago reports from jahe he humphreys camp state that they are geeting with excellent success on the park k group roup and at the ithe depth of feet the ledge 0 1 s said to average 60 per ton A rich t face showing of per ton is reported on othe he orr alexander property this proper y is in the nob hill district and the fortunate 1 dunate owners are making all preparations necessary lec ec essary for a deep working shaft ROBERT LANKA |