Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-09
MINERS RUSHING
TO NEW BONANZA
HIGH GRADE ORE STRUCK NEAR
SEARCHLlGHT
ormond Holdings Decided to Mr.. Hurt
Of Los AngeIes-steady Rise In
Value Of sllver-GeneraI
Mining Notes

During the past three years silver
has advanced 20 cents per ounce and
the advance is expected to continue,
which is having good effect on busi-
ness generally, as 1t is increasing the
purchasing power of the money now
In use In the orient. In the first four
months of the present year Great
Britain exported 100000 600 worth of
silver to India alone, which shows
the constantly increasing demand for
the white metal in the far east 1t
is estimated that $4,000, 900 ounces are
used in the arts annually. The United
states and Mexico are producing 80
per cent of the silver of the world,
hence the advance in the price of
metal is a great advantage to the min
ers of this country. Silver mines are
again coming into demand.
New Bonanza
sensational gold strike was made
recently twelve miles south of Search
light at Lewis's Holes, by ]. W. Short.
The new Ell Dorado is about eight miles
from the line of the Searchlight &
BarnWell railroad. AT the bottom of
an eiSht-foot cut three samples were
assayed that gave returns of SLIT. $3.50
and 5000. The ore is an andesite,
porphyry and tale and the values run
in gneiss and porphyry along the con-
tact. The fever has penetrated to the
neighboring camps and a stampede of
goldseekers is now heading for the new
| bonanza.
Francis Ormond has decided over his
Searchlight holdings to w. w. Hurt of
| Los Angeles. The Ormond interests in
clude the Ormond addition and the
Daylight group of mining claims. The
area of the property changing hands
comprises over 100 acres lying north
of this town, and the transaction rep
resents one of the largest and most
important deals of this nature ever
consummated in Searchlight.
Ell Dorado Canyon
Robert Lanka states that the Te-
chaticup Mining company will at once
| commence a new double compartment
shaft and install large hoist and
other necessary machinery to block out
at a greater depth the large bodies of
high-grade ore encountered by the
present prospect shafts, drifts and
wines. In the 670-foot main shaft
the last fifty feet of the vein has been
dipping very fiat, but it has now as
sumed a pitch of Is degrees and aver
ages about $100 per ton in gold and
copper.
The Ell Dorado Canyon Mining and
Milling company are driving a drift
tunnel into the hillside on the BUS
ter Brown" claim which will give sew
eral hundred feet of stopping ground
above the work. This tunnel con-
tinues in the good ore first encountered.
Interest at search;ieht
A short time ago attention was called
to the lively interest being manifested
in the Searchlight district by men
prominent in mining affairs and the
outside public in general. The fact
that there is no abatement of the
stream of incoming traffic, both human
and commercial, and that the western
exchanges show a more extensive trad
| ing in Searchlight and Ell Dorado cam
yon securities than those of any other
Nevada mining camps, prove this in
terest to be as enduring as it is en-
| thusiastic. Contrary to the usual con-
dition which prevails in the desert
mining camp during the summer sea-
son, the merchants are extremely busy
and report no falling off in trade what
ever. The monster desert freight wag-
ons are as busy hauling supplies as
| they were in the winter and the COM
ing fall promises to usher in a season
of wonderful prosperity.
El Paso bank of Colorado Springs, and
Mr.. Wilson, prominent mining man,
have bought the we'll known lie Roy
mine. They will Immediately install a
new twenty-five horse power hoist and
a $4,000 gallon Cornish pump and pro-
ceed to straighten out enlarge and
thoroughly timber the present shaft
This will be only part of the ex-
tensive developments planned by the
new management, and the property as
whole will be handled on a practical
mining basis.
Established Cyanide Plant
The Searchlight Mining and Milling
company have purchased a cyanide
plant of 100 tons capacity, which will
be used for extracting values from the
large dump of tailings now on the COM
pany's property. They have also ordered
a 100000 gallon capacity pump a sixty
horse power gasoline engine and full
electrical plant. The acquisition of this
large addition to its equipment will en-"
able the company to operate its prop
erty on much larger scale and is sig
nificant of the rapid progress being
made by this excellent mine. Sinking
on the main shaft and exploitation of
other known ledges will begin with the
installation. of the new machinery.
Sona tor Carter is president of the
searchlight M & NJ, Co,
The Cyrus Noble
Superintendent LuXen is authority for
the statement that the Cyrus Noble
mine has enough ore blocked out to
run the mills one year. This state
ment is merely to show the resources
of the property The pumps are now
installed and working with clock like
regularly, raising upward of $1,000
gallons per day. Sinking is being
rushed and the contractors are making
better than three feet a day and are
now down 431 feet.
Up to date the ore was being ex-
tracted from the north drifts on the 200
and 300 foot levels but as there are so
many other uses for the hoist at
present this work was discontinued.
The mine itself is looking better now
than at any time in it's career and the
management is exerting every energy
to make 1t one of Searchlights biggest
producers and within a short time after
the completion of the development work