The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-09-22
s~FARCHLIGHT NEWS
,s,ec,al correspondence.)

-uway lines are being construct
sH' are Of more importance than
limited length would. at FIRST
seem to Indicate. Ties ines
,-.,cbes of the Santa Fe and Salt
-,.a with searchlight. Nevada. as
.n,ective point. In reaching this
-.an, and rapidly growing camp.
.o.ds both tap. at different points.
s.o.d valley which is destined to be-
an important agricultural section
resent his valley is but an incident
..iculations of the railway COM
searchIight. it's mines n its
20, business being the Immediate
-, Of the DAD building.
s.archIight has been a gold producing
long time. 1t recently a come
greater prominence because of the
.nmber of phenomenally rich strikes in
-, Immediate vicinity. and because of
/. increasing richness Of the older
,,o,,g mines. The Searchlight dis
r.. IL proving to be h richest mineral
,,.,r,ct i'm the state. Its dimensions
- not been defined. 1t is known to
:. eighteen miles wide and the length
vst has to be determined. The camp
.,-ssarchlight contains more dividend
ing mines than any camp in Nevada.
pRoFrrABLE TO RAILWAY
rhore Is no class of business so prof
,.hie 10 the railway as a mineral field.
,analvzed statistics show that 51.56 per
an, of the freight handled by all the
rsnvavs Of the United States last yea
ros products of the mines. OF the re-
u,oining 4S.44 per cent, $50 per cent was
acr,cultural products, 13.41 per cent
w.nufactured articles. 1851 per cent
,,mher and forest products, and PA
nor cent animal products. 1t then is
ri,inly to be seen why two railway COM
nanies are hustling to get into what is
nrovine TO be one of the richest mineral
sections in the west.
work on the Barnwell & Searchlight
road as the Santa Fe line is known, is
rapidly approaching completion. Grad
ers are within sight of Searchlight, and
n is expected to have the o a running
next month. The line branches from
%Barnwell, Cal, or h Ivanpah line of
the Santa Fe and will be twenty-five
miles long.
Salt Lake steel leaves the main line
at Nipton, Cal, twenty-five miles from
searchlight. 1t will be just 800 miles
TO Searchlight from Los Angeles by rail
when the branch lines are completed.
Construction was not begun on the Salt
Lakes line so early as on the Santa Fe
branch. consequently the latter road will
be first into camp. The Santa Fe has
already established a shipping station
twelve miles out of Searchlight.
Six of the older producing mines in
searchlight are running a total of 20
stamps. and thirty additional stamps
are being added to the mills. This half
dozen old producers are the Quartette,
Duplex, Southern Nevada, New Era,
searchlight and the Cyrus Noble.
Among the more recent mines being
developed are Good Hope, down 500 feet;
Parallel 500 feet deep; Santa Fe 10
feet deep; Silver Legion, 200 feet deep;
Boulder, 10 feet deep: Boston, $50
feet; American Girl, 220 feet; FRACTION,
100 feet; Pompeii, 800 feet; Blossom,
425 feet; Mondamin, $50 feet; Common
wealth, 100; Saturn, 100 feet; food
enough, 100 feet; Black Hawk, 275 feet;
Big Six. 800 feet; Peerless. $50 feet;
searchlight. 800 feet; Wyoming-Search-
light, 200 feet; Annette, $50 feet, and
St. Louis, $50 feet in on a tunnel.
GOOD VALUES SHOWN
NOarIrv oil kla.0 N.A,osA. aaa 81
show good values near the surface. The
Blossom yielded $4,000 inside of the
first fifty feet. The products of these
mines and scores of others to be de-
veloped, and the carrying of supplies to
the camp is sufficient stake to warrant
the road building now in progress. Later
will be developed a rich agricultural re-
gion adjacent to the town. Just north
Of Searchlight there is a level valley
fourteen miles wide and eighteen miles
long, practically all of which is govern
ment lands open to the homesteader.
This means that there is opportunity for
more than 1000 persons to obtain free
farms of 100 acres each.
Soil in this valley is deep and rich,
and it but requires water to bring it to
a high state of productiveness. Fine
and abundant artesian water is found
at a depth of $50 feet. 1t will be but
a short time after the coming of the
railroads until every foot of the terri
tory is homesteaded. Several thousand
ADDED to the population of the region
promises greatness for S~earchlight,
which is the natural center for business
lor the entire valley.
Los Angeles capital and labor is
building the water and electric lighting
plants for the city. Carl Leonardo, who
mas the contract for the work, is a
large shareholder in the plants. II. III.
MeCord company of Los Angeles, owns
nearly the entire townsite, minus a few
hundred lots which they ave sold,
CHIEFLY to Los Angeles investors. Bust
ness OF the town will be done with Los
angeles over the railway lines now be-
ing constructed. There is talk of a
smelter to be built at that end of the
route for the smelling of the ores of
'he searchlight mines, such of them as
are not free milling.
write d.. G. Doubleday. 129 Mont
somery street, San Francisco, CAL,
y MS weekly or semi-weekly market