Show ACTIVITY AT searchlight special correspondence searchlight nevada july 18 A geological problem of no mean proportions has been encountered in the fourth of july mountain section of the searchlight mining district which has furnished a great deal of interest for mining engineers and geologists during its development until within a year kear and a half ago all the development in this immediate section had been performed on the northerly side of fourth of july mountain on the chief of the hills fourth of july bamberger wheatley kansas city stanley forbes and several other properties from which in the neighborhood of tons of ore averaging about 55 has been extracted and milled leaving uns toped large bodies of medium and low grade ores in almost all of these prop pro artles as depth is attained there are evidences of great disturbances oc curing after the mountain and directly opposite the fourth of july peak to discover the contact between the granite and the porphyry formation along the north side of this mineralized zone as they have been found in the properties on the south side in mr air rouses opinion the main fissure extends from the north line of the marion property to the south line of the fourth of oc july mine which is almost at the crest of the mountain in the three shafts varying maryin k in depth from to feet he has proved the quartz porphyry to have been deposited in the form of a perfect fold dipping at 43 degrees to the north on the foot level doubling back upon itself and dipping to the south at 51 degrees at a point directly north and distant about 2400 feet to the tunnel of the baton mine cf 0 f the quartette estate at the base of the fourth of july mountain a lateral fracture extending northerly and southerly or at right angles with the strike of the main for a distance of nearly 2000 feet cuts the in half that this dik disturbance goes to great depth is shown by the fact that it is even more marked on the east drift on the foot level on the marlon marion than it is on the surface f ac e mr air rouse has spent considerable time and study with geologists before arriving at this conclusion which tends to prove that the richest mineralized belt in the searchlight district will eventually be found between the walls of the gigantic fissure that is marked upon the north and south by the boundaries of the marlon marion and the fourth of july estates the present development on the eldorado empire mine is fast proving up the the had taken place notably in the case of the kansas city which is regularly step faulted at about every 70 feet the main source of estis ra 1 is disturbance and the point of the main up heavel which caused it have never been determined until now for the reason that all of these properties are located on the southerly side of the canyon through which the colorado river searchlight road runs to the north and across the canyon distant by airline about two miles is an unbroken range of granite mountains extending for many miles in a south southeasterly easterly north westerly direction it has remained for W J rouse the los angeles mine operator whose properties lie on the north side ol of extension of the wall street lode and the present showing is remarkably large for the amount of development performed tha recently installed plant of machinery asin excellent working order and the present work has shown the existence of two distinct ore shoots one being a continuation of the wall street vein running north and south the other being a continuation of the east west vein system called the cross vein the present work is being performed on the wall street lode blocking out the ore preparatory to the installation of a suit able plant to handle the output the wall street mine is one of the mineral sensations of nevada having produced from the surface to a depth of eighty five feet |