Show THE residents and mine owners in searchlight 0 district lincoln county nevada have petitioned congress in the matter of improvements prove ments so as to make the colorado river navigable from needles to eldorado canyon a distance of eighty five miles from may to october the river is an open highway and the distance from needles to eldorado canyon is made in boats in from sixteen to twenty hours durino during the balance of the year however high water and shifting sand and the repeated changing of the bed of the river makes navigation difficult and tedious from eight elo t lit to ten days being Z required to make the run searchlight is capable of producing an almost unlimited quantity of a good grade of gold ore which can be treated on the ground at a handsome profit for three or four months durina the year for the rest of the season the mines and mills are necessarily at a i standstill owing to the difficulty of getting in provisions supplies and fuel jf an appropriation pria tion were made for the improvement of the river for the distance named this would w be an active productive and prosperous camp camp from one end of the year to the other searchlight is comparatively a new camp but it is one of excellent exe ellent promise and with but half 9 show would soon be to the ita perish able wealth of the world at a rate that would ere long place in the lead as a marvelous producer of the yellow metal |