Show GOOD searchlight NEWS SPECIAL correspondence searchlight nev dec 0 the dismantling of the colorado river mill of the quartette mining company is going forward with dispatch and will probably be completed within three weeks in the quartette mine during the past week a large body of 30 ore has been opened in the foot level while the and are showing up better than ever the two ore shoots which the company has developed in the upper levels are converging with depth and the indications are that the foot level will have one immense ore body in place of the two above on the hidden treasure claim on which deep trenching drenching tren ching has been in progress during the last three weeks a body of milling ore has been opened right at the surface while a width of fifty feet has been exposed from wall to wall A deep shaft will be put down at once on the with the double purpose of prospecting the new strike and of developing an additional water supply the hidden treasure adjoins the cyrus noble in which an unusually heavy flow ot water was encountered some months ago and it is expected that the same water channel will be cut on the hidden treasure vein with the immediate installation of ten stamps from the old river mill in view an increased water supply is an imperative necessity ces sity G H mcclintock one of the prime movers in in the new railroad deal will leave for salt lake city on the ath where the final steps will be taken preliminary to incorporation the new corporation will probably be known as the searchlight western R R company the directorate as fore shadowed will consist of dr H A hanson and G H mcclintock president and cashier respectively of the searchlight bank and trust company col C A hopkins and F J harrington respectively treasurer and superintendent of the quartette mining company and one other yet to be named traffic arrangements have been completed with the salt lake route and contracts signed surveying parties are to be put in the field within ten days and track laying will commence immediately upon surrender of the quartette railroad to the new corporation po ration which will occur as soon as the river mill is dismantled and removed every effort will be made to run cars into searchlight from nipton kipton by the first of april within the past two weeks the new gallows frame at the santa fe mine has been completed and the powerful new fairbanks morse hoist turned over substantial progress has been made in straightening and re timbering the shaft and in connecting up the new cornish kurap sinking will be resumed immediately upon the completion of these improvements two very rich strikes have been made in the immediate field within the past week the first was on the fraction claim of the duplex mining company where a silver lead ore has been opened which carries gold to the ton the fraction shaft will be continued to the foot level at once and the new strike thoroughly developed on the azusa claim owned by californians the feather edge of a high grade body ot of gray copper ore was struck during the performance for mance of the annual assessment work the ore assays essays up to 42 per cent copper and sixty ounces of silver the extent ot of the ore body will be proven at once at eldorado canyon sinking to the foot level is in progress on the rand claim of the black hawk mining company while tunneling is under way on the honest miner claim in the latter a five foot body of ore is exposed which is said to average about 50 per ton the venus mining company with some of the same stockholders is also sinking a shaft on a five foot vein in which free gold is visible to the naked eye the silver legion mine of the eldorado nevada mining company at knob hill is producing shipping ore from the 70 foot level while sinking is in progress below that point the silver legion has produced approximately from a depth of only 70 feet WALTER M BROWN |