Show gossip FROM searchlight A CAMP SPECIAL correspondence searchlight nev sept 7 the increasing activity at searchlight still continues the cool weather having set in the work on the barnwell searchlight railroad will be rapidly pushed to completion the power house of the searchlight light power company is completed the town has been strung with wires and the machinery is on the road realty sales as reported by the mccord company nearly double those of last week in the colorado mining milling com banys shaft which is due west of the searchlight M M co s property they had started a foot vertical shaft encountering a twenty foot vein at a depth of seventy feet which averages 10 in gold the 00 foot shaft however will be continued as originally planned A gasoline hoist has been installed in place of a whip which will greatly facilitate the work the parallel mine which adjoins the cyrus noble extension on the north has ordered a large pump and a mill will be installed before the first of the year the searchlight M M are installing a seven ty horsepower steam hoist using crude oil as fuel william usrey edwin beal and charles elgin redonda and los angeles capitalists were here this week examining the san pedro group in which they are interested their shaft is down thirty two feet encountering very good ore their intention is to sink another hundred feet L E bamberger of the famous bamberger de lamar mine was here last week and secured some property he will shortly return to commence active operations the annette shaft has encountered an important change in the shaft at a depth of feet what appears to be a cross vein has been cut affecting the general character of the ore there being more sill sili fi cation less copper stain and improved values the main shaft on the nevada searchlight is now down feet it is the intention of the management to sink to an additional dit ional level and cross cut which should show splendid results they have four veins cropping and the work under way is on the one farthest north when uncovered by the recent rains exceptionally fine ore was exposed the searchlight cons M M co will soon install a hoist and begin active operations large bodies of ore have been ex po posed sedat at the foot level the searchlight quintette gold mining company have commissioned stone brown to make a preliminary survey of their prop erty on doherty mountain they own five claims which are being developed under the direction of F L humphrey formerly with the portland mine at cripple creek the shaft of the cyrus noble extension is down feet the first fifty feet having been fully timbered A drift has been run from the bottom forty six feet to the north and to the south and east a combination drift and crosscut cross cut for the same distance A power hoist will soon be installed to facilitate cili tate the work ore identical with that of the cyrus noble the main shaft of which is only a few hundred feet to the south is being taken out values ranging as high as 25 per ton GEORGE J |