Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
VALUES SOARING
At SEARCHLIGHT
SCENES OF ACTIVITY AT THE
DEPOT SITES
One Hundred Men Laying Rails for the
BarnwelI G. sesrchlight Road.
y Locations for Stakes and
Warehouses

! Special Correspondence of The Herald
SDARCHLIGHT New, Dec. 22.-
Searchlight is moving forward by leaps
and bounds. The progress of the camp
| Is Unprecedented in it's history, as is
evidenced by the volume of business
now being done in the commercial es-
Establishments of this fast growing camp.
The first train over the Barnwell &
| Searchlight railway left Barnwell last
Thursday bound for the end of the
track. Front" Is at present ten miles
out from Barnwell and is to be ad-
vanced as fast as the tracks are laid
| For this reason there VIII be no sta
| ton built or any other facilities pro-
vided until Searchlght is reached.
There are about 100 men at work lay
| ing rails, and from now on the work
will proceed with all speed possible
The grading has been completed the en-
tire distance and surveyors are mark
| ing the site for the proposed depot and
freight buildings
Passengers will be carried on both
trains daily, but one train will be prac-
tically for the transportation of con-
struction supplies and material, while
the other, which will make connections
with the Searchlight stages and with
trains on the main line, will be de-
voted to handling the passenger and
express business.
The vicinity of the Searchlight depot
teens with activity, as the business
men of Searchlight have secured loca-
tions for warehouses and lumber is now
on the ground for many new houses.
This new rival to Searchlight is going
along in very rapid manner and by
the time the "iron horse" arrives a
healthy young metropolis, peopled and
fully alive, will be the first to greet the
daily trains.
The depot is situated on the estate
of the Boulder Mining company and
directly opposite foundations are being
laid for 81 modern thirty-room hotel,
with all up-to-date conveniences.
Rich Ore Found
A strike of much importance has
been made in the hitherto unknown
district of Jefferson Canyon New, on
the property of the Jefferson-Apex
company, which is controlled by Man
haitian parties. Prospectors were put
to work several weeks ago on q we'll
appearing ledge with a good surface
showing. A few feet from the surface
pay ore was found and the values have
increased the whole distance of LOG
feet. Samples taken from twelve inches
OF decomposed quartz lying against a
porphyry contact gave indicated re-
| IuIllS VI 9Goo.oJ 10 the TON. In anOtne1
depth samples taken from eighteer
inches of porphyritic quartz ran $525. 8!
to the ton. Free gold is visible in botl
cases, and in the latter it resembles
the rusty gold found in the porphyritit
quartz of the Cripple Creek mines
which made that district famous.
Another Bonanza in Arizona
Superintendent J. w. Bandhaur OF
| the Silver Queen company, operating in
the Superior district, in an interview
says regarding the new property: 1.-THE
| Queen is both silver and copper mine
| and the values in the white metal run
very high. There are about four feet
of carbonate ore in the face of the
drift that assays 1S per cent and car
ries a large percentage of iron. Be
tween this ore and the quartzite there
Is good sized seam of glance, going
ninety-one ounces silver and about 5-S
| per cent in copper. In a raise from the
same level vein was encountered that
carried 80 ounces of silver and 46 per
cent copper. In fact, all of the ore
thus far uncovered in the Queen has
been of high grade and there promises
to be a great deal of it,
Gold Output of Arizona
While much has been said about the
Arizona copper output, it might be said
| lnaC the territory is also one or the
leading gold and silver producers. Ac-
cording to the government reports, the
| output of gold in 1905 was 1851 200
and the output of silver for the same
year was COS, 700 ounces.
The two Douglas smelters, the Cop
per Queen and the Calumet and Ari-
zona, produced 100000 pounds of cap
per last month. Three new furnaces
are to be added to the already COM
MI NJ fI,n
put will be greatly increased during
| 1907