Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-31
SEARCHL|GHT IS
ENJOYING BOOM
Many Improvements Planned In.
GLIDING Fine New Hotel
Building.
MANY SURVEYS UNDER WAY.
Mines OF District Are Showing up Wen
and Nearly All Are Under
Active Development.

Special Correspondence.
searchlight, Nevada oct 29-Th'
searchllght boom" seems 10 be real
lily at last as the crowds are beginning
TO swarm into the district, aud every
stage brings new faces, an extra line
OF buses having been added to the reg
udar stage line between Nlpton and
Searchllght. while the Santa Fe system
Ia laying Its steel between Barnwell
and Searchllght on It's branch line.
Every hotel Is crowded at present,
and the laying Of the foundation for
the new hotel will be commenced I'M.
mediately Houses are springing up
like mushrooms all over the townsite
and the water and light companies are
extending their service to the outside
additions with all speed possible
That Searchllght will be prominent
factor IN the future " now an assured
fact, as with II producing mines, and
IS developing properties, this district is
bound to coma 10 the fore.
MANY SURVEYS.
II the prosperity Of the district may
be gauged by the amount OF surveying
being done, which seems a reasonable
proposition, then Is Searchllght pros
porous indeed. During the past two
weeks the Azusa, Rouroki, Little Ari-
zona, Progress and Boulder Mining Co
claims, In all, six claims. have been
surveyed
Count Chas. WANNA has purchased
the Bonanza group. which adjons the
estate OF the Quartette Mining Co. on
the east The property consists OF three
full claims, and prospect work done 50
far has been very favorable. An i'm
mense lead traverses the Black Bear
claim and outcrops very prominently
on the surface. Good paintings can be
had along the vein for 1900 feet. Seven
assays from samples taken from 10 foot
prospect holes ran from 2.55 to $62. 40
In gold per ton.
INSTALLING MACHINERY.
supt. w. w. Hurt, OF the New York.
searchlight Mining Co, has resumed
sinking on the Waterspout claim, and
Is installing 10 h, D. gasoline hoist to
facilitate rapid development. The shaft |
is down 200 feet and will be sunk ibO |
feet further This shaft was originally |
sunk for the purpose of getting water, |
but ore was struck at i45 feet and from |
present indications ore will be raised
with water. The ore Is copper stained |
quartz. carrying values In gold, silver |
and copper.
The fiat west of Seachlight is be- |
ginning TO loom up better every day. as |
development work on the many differ |
ent properties show up ore wherever |
depth is attained. Values on the sur |
face range from 81 to s35 and al depth |
much higher. The Wyoming Search
light has Installed 15-horsepower gas
oine hoist.
WORK ON CHALLENGE GROUP.
one mile further west on the fiat"
les the Challenge City group OF six |
claims, owned by John Taylor. Dr. S.
P. Lowell and c. III. Frink OF Santa |
Barbara, Cal. Development work has
been progressing on this estate for some
line past, and the shaft on the Minnie |
No. Is down s5 feet with five feet Of |
IRE that averages $50 across the vein.
rhe values are vesy Uniform, and the |
Tein, which was Is inches on the sur
ace, IL now over six feet In width, with
10th walls disclosed. The DEVELOPMENT
10 far consists OF the S5-foot shaft on
he Minnie No. 2, a 2i-foot shaft on tho
ialvlng claim and over $50 feet OF
The ore is similar 10 that
ound on the Wyoming Searchlight and
iolden Rod groups lying one mile east
II this find.
SHOWS GOOD VALUES.
Supt. G.. w. Huntington Is develop
ng the Colorado group, belonging to
he Superior Nevada Gold Mining com
,any. The property is situated 10 miles
vest of Searchight, near the Crescen,
district. Considerable work is being
lone in the development line and vast
Quantities OF the ore being blocked out.