Show searchlight COMING TO THE FRONT special correspondence searchlight nevada may 25 searchlight bids fair to again take the spotlight from many of the other nevada mining camps in the matter of production and sensational gold strikes the revival of searchlight during the past year has been really phenomenal properties that have lain idle for sometime past are now being put through a thorough course of development and put on a producing basis this activity can be attributed principally to the success of the many lessees lessels who are now operating in the camp leasing is something new to searchlight which has heretofore been considered a rich mans camp for mineral investments investment 3 however about a year ago the quartette m mine ine the largest property from a producing standpoint in southern nevada began giving givin gout out leases on various parts of its holdings other corporations followed suit until today lessees lessels are shipping bullion from the quartette good hope blossom southern nevada fourth of july mountain chief of the hills hill searchlight and pompeii mines the wells fargo express company is now shipping more bullion than has hereto fore ever been sent out of the camp while ore shipments are being regularly sent forth from many of the other properties in the district the roar of stamps dropping is now as familiar as their absence was noticeable ti a year ago emphasizing the era of prosperity that is dawning upon mis entire section A sensational gold strike was made on the anaconda group at camp hoptley How near mt newberry about seventeen miles southeast of searchlight by john howe and light wheatley thirty feet east of the main shaft the men while trenching drenching tren ching uncovered what appeared to be some iron stained quartz but closer examination showed that it was seemingly alive with free gold pieces of the ore broken off as large as a mans fist were found to be heavily impregnated with free gold giving extraordinary bannings pann ings of the precious metal some of the colors being as large as a grain of wheat the work so far has shown four feet of ore without uncovering the hanging wall estimates as to the value of the rich streak run as high as per ton while the entire vein will mill better than 50 per ton excluding the rich streak the formation on this property is porphyry lime and schist with the veins paralleling the big schist dikes that traverse the property with an east west strike the ore which occurs in a lime and porphyry contact is an iron stained quartz with the gold values in the hematite ten tons of the ore are now sacked and will be shipped to the needles at once this strike has caused much excitement many prospecting outfits being on the ground and others headed for the new eldorado while the country has been staked out for miles around the scene of the find during the past two years development work on the duplex has proceeded without interruption under the supervision of the owner G F colton who is the discoverer of searchlight the fraction shaft has been dropped to the foot level and the ore reserves are being blocked out from the foot level down this will be continued until the foot level is attained and then the dropping of stamps will be resumed A carload of twenty eight tons of ore was taken out while drifting on the foot level and shipped to the netting the owner a handsome sum the ore assaying three ounces gold thirty ounces sliver silver eleven per cent copper and eighteen per cent lead this is the first copper that has been mined locally and adds strength to the belief that at depth searchlight will be a copper camp the duplex which has produced to date is looking better now than at any time in its entire history and has upwards of tons of measure able ore blocked out in the workings ready for extraction and treatment A shipment of fifty tons of ore was sent to the cyrus noble mill by carlsen and lund operating the 0 and L lease on the good hope mine this week this ore was taken out while raising from the 50 foot level to the surface enough ore for an extended mill run is now being extracted and negotiations are now pending for the leasing of a mill here that has been idle for sometime past if this deal is consummated the lease management contemplate using large tonnage automobile trucks figuring that they can handle a large body of bf medium grade ore in sight at a good profit on the goodenough mine adjoining which is also under lease to carlsen and lund four feet of fine ore has been opened up on the first level from which excellent bannings pann ings are obtainable the ore is a copper stained quartz carrying free gold and is identical to the high grade ores mined in the duplex and quartette mines adjoining just at this time of the year when mining operations usually taper oft off eldorado canyon is teeming with activity perhaps the most significant feature of the present activity in this district is the fact that after many years of innocuous nocuous desuetude the wharton estate mines are to be reopened representatives of th the sterling eSterling borax company are in this field and have secured options on the lucky jim rover rambler and lone cabin mines belonging to the estate and have given out contracts for the sinking of shafts several hundred feet in depth on the rover lucky jim and lone cabin properties following the recent hurried visit of gordan M EL the nevada eldorado mine which has lain idle for sometime past now represents a very lively appearance A force of men have been put to work un watering this sterling property cleaning it out preparatory to a thorough sampling the management contemplates installing a pump of sufficient capacity and dropping the shaft from its present depth of foot to the foot level this mine has a large body of medium grade ore blocked out in a fissure vein the values being mainly in silver in the andesite on the copper prince a contract has been let for several hundred feet of sinking and considerable lateral work the ore on this property is in stringers of co running all through the syenite in a regular network in the present shaft the ore showing is encouraging enough to warrant a thorough exploitation at depth as the stringers have increased very considerably sider ably in size and in gold silver and copper content the mill of the black hawk mining company is working on ore from its rand shaft and is plating enough to insure the contin bance of active operations for a long time to come development work on this property has been under the supervision of 0 superintendent erin robert dunbar for several years past and the ore showing in the various shafts is a glowing tribute to his ability and persistency persi stancy this company owns the rand venus mountain honest miner buster and cinch mines all of which are in ore and have been developed sufficiently to insure an extended millrun milbrun mill run sinking and lateral work are progressing very rapidly in the rand shaft from which the ore for the present mill run is being taken the west shaft on the foot level of the russian eagle has cut through the north south vault dike and is now over fifty feet into a tremendous body of high grade ore this ore is base in character carries lead silver copper iron and some free gold as large as rice grains the silver sulphides sulp hides predominate throughout these values averaging 25 to the ton this is one of the most promising properties in the district and has all the earmarks of being developed into a great producer hoisting machinery of sufficient capacity to facilitate sinking to great depth and a complete camp equipment to house a large crew of men are being in installed T stalled at inca camp between january and eagle wash the present shaft is to be lowered to the foot level and laterals literals late rals run on the ore to determine its extent and value and the most economical process to recover the values brown and hastings of nelson have installed an automobile stage and truck line between searchlight and eldorado canyon several large auto trucks have been placed in service giving daily round trip passenger and freight service this closes the career of the old six horse stage line that has traveled over the canyon road these many years and now come the new and rapidly movin moving 9 conveyances bringing the district closer t to 0 the outside world |