Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-09-12
Santa Fe and Salt Lake Roads
Construct Branches 10 Tap
Mineral Zone.
SEARCHLlGHT'S NEW STRIKES.
Last Year Value of Mineral Tran-por
iatiOn Has Been fifu.one Per
Cent of Gross Tonnage.
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Sedrchllght Ncy,sept. lo-Two short
railway lines are being constructed
which are Of more Importance than
their limited length would. at hrst
glance seem TO indicate. These lines
arc branches OF the Santa ne aud Salt
Lake roads, with Searchllght, New. as
The objective point In reaching this
important and rapidly growing camp.
the roads both tap at different points.
a broad valley which is destined 10 be-
come an important agricultural section.
At present this valley IS but an incident
In the calculations of the railway COM
/ panies. Searchlight, It's mines and It's
general business being the immediate
object Of the road building
Searchlighi has been gold producing
| camp long lime. Il recently has come
| INTO greater prominence because Of
number OF phonomcnally rich strikes IN
that immediate vicinity and because OF
| the increasing richness Of the older
| producing mines
The Searchllght district Ia proving
| 10 be the richest mineral district In the
/ state It's dimensions nave not been
| defined. II Is known t. be IS miles
wide aud the length has 10 be de.
| termined. The camp ~ Scarchlght
contains more dividend paying mines
than any camp in Nevada.
PROFITABLE TO RAILWAY.
There is no class OF business so prof.
liable TO the railway as a mineral field.
| Analysed statistics show that 5l.56 per
| cent Of the freight handled by all thu
railways Of the United States last year
was products OF the mines OF the re-
naming isA per cent. $50 per cent
was agricultural products, 1874 per
cent manufactured articles, 1851 per
cent lumber and forest products, and
ia per cent animal products. II then
Is plainly to be seen why two railway
companies are hustllng to get into what
Is proving 10 be one OF the richest min
eral sections OF the west
Work on the Barnwell and Search
light road as the Santa Fe branch is
known, Is rapidly approaching com
! Fiction. Graders are within sight OF
Searchlight and II Is expected to have
the road running next month. The
line branches from Barnwell. cal, on
the Ivanpah line ~ the Santa Fe and
will be 20 miles long.
salt Lake steel leaves the main line
AT Nipton, Cal, % miles from Search
light II win be Just 500 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 Re branch. consequently the lat
ter road will be first into the camp.
The Santa Fe has already establlsh-
cd a shipping station 4 miles out from
Searchlight
Six Of the older producing mines In
Searchlight are running a total Of 10
stamps and 30 additional stamps are
being added TO the mills This half
dozen old producers are the quartet
Duplex. Southern Nevada. New Fra,
Seafchlight and Cyrus Noble.
Among the more recent mines being
developed are Good hope down 500
feet: Parallel 500 feet: Santa Fe 10
fee deep; Silver Legion, zoo feet deep;
Boulder 10 feet deep. Boston $50
feet deep, American Girl. 22o feet;
Fraction 100 feet: National Bank, zoo
feet, Pompeil. 800 feet: Blossom, 425
feet; Mondamin $50 feet; Common
wealth. 100 feet; Saturn. 100 feet;
GOodenough. 90 feet: Blackhawk. 275
feet. Big Six, 800 feet: Peerless. $50
feet. Searchlight, 800 feet. Wyoming
Searchlight. geo feet: Annette. $50
feet, and ST. Louis. 500 feet In on a
tunnel
GOOD VALUES SHOWN.
Nearly all these properties begsn TO
show values near the surface. The Bios
som yielded s3l5 900 inside the first fifty
feet The products Of these mines and
scores OF others to be developed. and
the carrying supplies 10 the camp Is
sufficient stake 20 warrant the road
building now In progress. Later will
te deYeloped rich agricultural region
adjacent 20 the town. Just north Of
Searchlight there Is level valley four
teen miles wide and eighteen miles long,
practically all 81 which Is government
lands open 10 the homesiesder This
means that there is opportunity for
more than 1900 persons to obtain free
farms Of 100 acres each.
Soil in this valley is deep and rich.
and u but requires water 10 bring IL 10
high state Of productiveness. Fine
and abundant arteslan water is found
az depth % l5o feet. II win be but
a short time after the coming Of the
railroads until every foot OF the terri
tory Is hoinesteadcd. Several thOus-
and added 20 the population OF the re-
gion promises greatness for SearchliFht.
which is the natural center for busi-
ness for the entire valley
los Angeles capital and labor Is
building the water aud electric lighting
plants for the city. Carl Leonardo. who
has the contract for the work. Is a large
shareholder in the plants. X. N. Ne
Cord company Of los Angeles, owns
nearly the entire townsitt minus a
lew hundred lots which they have sold
chleny 90 Los Angeles investors. Bust
ness Of the town win be- done with Los
Angeles over the railway lines nov be-
Ing constructed. There h talk Of a
smelier 20 be- built az that end OF the
route for the smelling Of the ores Of the
I Spnrfhliahf mineF such 81 Them as ara