Show RAILROAD DAY FOR searchlight A ll 11 L SPECIAL correspondence searchlight nevada oct 25 preparations are afoot to celebrate railroad day and large crowds are promised from san francisco los angeles and all the important towns in nevada according to the latest information from the headquarters of the santa fe in los angeles within seven weeks the first train load of passengers will be pulled into searchlight this means much to the camp as machinery and supplies for the many growing properties now have to be hauled twenty two miles by team and the four stages handling the passenger traffic are barely equal to the task whether or not the prize fight between tommy burns and jim flynn will be pulled off here is still a question one day recently while showing some eastern capitalists over the p property of the searchlight consolidated M M co the owners picked up some promiscuous specimens of surface rock extending over a distance of feet along the lead crossing the oregon group and to their surprise not a single sample ran less than 50 a ton in their shaft they have encountered good showings but had never looked for it on the surface it looks as though this would make one of the large properties of tile the district the searchlight wyoming at a depth of feet have struck good values but will continue sinking and drifting the damberger bamberger wheatley mining company has done feet of sinking and drifting and trenching drenching tren ching has been started it is the intention of the company to develop all the claims as fast as it can accomplish the work the ore has averaged 7 per ton from the grassroots grass roots down and is now running as high as 40 all the contract work has been completed on the nevada consolidated property the shaft on the loder claim being feet down with good showings in the drake shaft on the quartette property they have sunk feet but encountered so much water that they did not carry out their original plan of crosscutting at that level instead they are crosscutting towards the main vein of the quartette itself this gigantic property still continues to get better and from present appearances there seems to be an absolutely inexhaustible supply of ore in sight it is stated on good authority that the dividends will soon oon S be increased from per month to and t this th is considering the extensive improvements in the companas comp anys many buildings and the timbering work continually kept up is a remarkable showing tile the cyrus noble extension shaft is down feet and at feet they en co countered u an east and west vein which is undoubtedly the vein of the duplex as the ore in general appearance is exactly the same and carries high values the duplex which adjoins this property is the first mine located in searchlight land and was sold to john brockman of the commonwealth mines of arizona and count portalis for the cyrus noble extension shaft is approximately only 1500 feet from the duplex shaft the electrical machinery for the plant which is to furnish light for the entire camp as well as the town itself is all installed with the exception of the dynamos which are being hauled by team from manvel and within the next week the plant will be in full operation the nevada consolidated limited in the mcghan camp have one hoist in operation their shaft at feet has encountered another new ore body with a width of four feet assaying as high as 60 several properties have changed hands here during the past week owing to the rapidly increasing population the hotels and lodging houses are taxed beyond their limit and the opportunity for a large sized hotel is good GEO J n |