Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1900-09-14
RESOacts OF R Ul::.
Lincoln County Men Talk of that Sec

anu Ouerln JAKE Johnson OF Lincoln
county, Nevada, nude trip by
blackboard last month over most of
the line of a proposed railway from
Utah to Los Angeles, aud they are
enthusiastic over the amount of bus
iness to be done when the road is
: built, and over the valuable country
that will be opened up.
Messrs McNamee and johnson
left DeLamar August 17th and drove
down the west side of the range to
Moapa Indian reservation. The sur
vey is on tue east side of the range
where there is much better coun-
try, and so the west side OF sixty
miles to Las Vagas in Lincoln county
was with some hardship. From Las
Vegas the travellers drove thirty
eight miles to Good Springs and
thence fifty miles to Mauvelin Cali
fornia, the terminal of branch line
on the Santa Fe road running up
from Blake.
In describing the trip Yesterday
Mr.. McNamee said "The survey
runs north of Marvel via Ivanpah
and Barstow. There is no partnicuci-
lar summit to climb and the steepest
grade will be between Las Vagas
and Good Springs and that will be
moderate. In fact | doubt if the
heaviest grade be over II per cent.
The road will run within twelve
miles of the Potosi mine known as
famous lead mine, and taps the Key
stone in sthe Yellow Pine mining
district.
"The road will be comparatively
straight. and excepting gap of
sixty miles, will pass through an
ampled watered country. To the
north and east of Marvel is one of
the most promising mining districts
i'll Nevada, known as the Searchlight.
The Quartette Mining company has
opened up three fne mining claims
there. The Macrerdy mine and the
Dunn groupare now building u 100
ton mill on the Colorado river four
teen miles distant, aud already Il
survey has been made for railroad
to the mill ut the river. The descent
is 5000 feet in the fourteen miles.
The Ssarchlight nine in the same
district is shipping 500 gold ore to
the Ell Paso smeter, and has good
supply blocked out in their mine,
which is owned by Messrs. Cotton,
Rose and others.
MINES ARE PLENTIFUL.
"In ad lition to the gold, silver
and copper resources. Tiif,ny Il Co.
of New York are developing a tur
auoise mine bstween the old Crrs-
cent camp and the Searchlight, hav-
ing the property under bond, and
employing twenty men unearthing
valuable specimens. There is moth
ing doing ut A. G. Campbell's mines
at present beyond putting in leach
ing tanks, but the mill will start up
in the near future. One of the larg-
est and most extensive ranches in
Nevada is at Las Vegas owned by
Mrs. Helen j. Stewart. It includes
over 1000 acres under fence, with
plenty OF water and fine orchard
There is large share of the fruit
going to waste for lack of u market,
or means of preserving. The El-
Dorado in the canyon twenty miles
north of Searchlight is running a
mill on gold. Eastern companies
have invested 5000, 900 there.
"We ran across many small
ranches in the mountains where
were grown fine fruit of many kinds
melons, figs, grapes, etc., but the
principal industry was raising cattle
The ranch of j, B. Wilson i'll the
mountains near Las Vegas calls for
special mention. Thomas Ewing is
working a twenty-stamp mill on the
Homestake group and employing
fifty men. One of the best prospects
in the west lies on the north side
between Riovillle and Fort Mojave,
and besides the mineral wealth there
are vast deposits of salt and mica.
IN THE MUDDY VALLEY.
"The Muddy valley to the north
OF Searchlight and east of Las Vegas
is fifty miles long, averages from
two to Eve miles in width and has
an abundance of water. In this val
ley there are already the prosperous
settlements OF St Joe, Overton, St,
Thomas and Moapa. The climate
is semi-tropical, small grains are
peculiarly adapted to it and corn
grows as luxnriant as on the Mis-