Show I RICH ORE IN SEARCHLIGHT Nevada Propositions That Run High In Gold G F Coltan the discoverer and first locator in the Searchlight Nevada district dis-trict is at the Cullen According to I his story there are few camps In the west that have a brighter prospect than Searchlight I found gold up there two years I ago he said I found plenty of it and have been doing very well ever I since I first began operations almost singlehanded and found gold ore I which by sorting I could make runabout run-about 500 per ton This ore I quietly I shipped to the Arizona markets and sold gradually increasing my operations tions as my money would allow finally incorporating the Searchlight Mining Milling company I a still working that property and three or four others besides and all of them are moneymaking money-making mines The ore is practically freemilling and there is lots of i which averages 25 and better to the tonAnother Another property down there is the Hopkins Mining company controlled by a wealthy Boston syndicate who are operating four different properties in the district They are making a splendid showing also and are now preparing to take in machinery for a around big mill This wit make it handy all I learned just before leaving that a boat was about to be put on the Colorado Colo-rado river for the purpose of handling freight forward and back between the district which is only a few miles from the river and the Santa Fe railroad at Needles About twentyfive miles northeast from our camp in the Vanderbilt district dis-trict Allen G Campbell the old Utah miner has got a bonanzaa mine that is destined to bring him great wealth He has n shaft down on his property 300 feet and in the bottom the ledge must be fifteen or twenty feet across and samples from i go anywhere from 1 to 200 or 300 per ton He had It bonded once for 400000 but the parties par-ties let it go and not long since they tried to get hold of I again but they were too late This new Searchlight district coyer coy-er an area of someten by twenty miles and has only one drawback and that Is lack of water Some of the mines a beginning to get water in I the bottom of their working however and I think that difficulty will soon be overcome Mr Colton is in the city on private business and will leave for the diggings dig-gings again in two or three days He said DeLamars Mortals and representatives repre-sentatives of other big investors had approached him at different times for the purpose of securing some of his holdings in the new camp but he preferred pre-ferred to keep and work them through the prospecting stages and sell them as mines if he ever sold at all Searchlight Is about twentyfive miles northwest of Maurel and Is a strictly gold camp There are now some 200 people in the district and Mr Colton Col-ton believes a great may more will go In during this season |