Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-27
FORTUNE SMILES
ON SEARCHL|GHT
THE DUPLEX MAY BECOME
ANOTHER QUARTETTE
Mining Activity Has Doubled Banking
and Commercial Business-Whole
District on Eve of Fever
ish Boom
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
SEARCHLIGHT, New, May 26.-As
development on the Duplex progresses
this property is demonstrating that 1t Is
soon destined to become another Quar-
tette. Despite the fact that several
fortunes have been taken from the
workings, the property is just beginning
to assume the shape of mine, and only
this week another good strike made in
the lower workings is reported, which
is the most important yet. large
body of rich ore has been encountered
(which will give. the mine a reserve for
years to come and at the same time al
low steady mill run.
The new discoveries augur well for
Searchlight, for as soon as ore is
blocked out and opened sufficiently an
addition will be made to the mill, which
| will double the capacity and also be
| the means of adding triple the number
of miners to the payroll.
| Reports from the lower levels of the
| Quartette indicate that even richer ore
is now being found than has ever come
| to light in that great property. AS de-
velopment progresses every available
man is being put to work, and as soon
as the twenty-stamp addition to the
mill is blown in the property will go in
for record breaking production.
These circumstances, coupled with
active development at Mob Hill. on the
Silver Legion, and in Eldorado canyon,
where the Fortuna is now producing
heavily, and where lesser properties are
placing on extra miners, has had a ten
dency to inject a spirit of activity never
before witnessed in this district. Busi-
ness houses and commercial institu-
tions have felt the change, and the
banking institutions have doubled their
business within the past thirty days.
The district is on the eve of fever
ish boom, when number of l-g pros
poets begin adding their product to the
already increasing output.
On the Midas Property
Contractor T. E. G.. Fredericks is
making record time in completing the
work on the Midas shaft, which Is
about finished, and Is now nearing the
200-foot level The contract calls for
a total Of 126 feet of work, and this
has been accomplished in little more
than thirty days. The rich stringers
cut in the progress of the sinking have
passed out of the workings and drift
ing will have to be resorted to in order
to pick up the ore body. Experts who
have viewed the territory agree that no
effort should be made for ore produc-
tion under 300 feet, Us other workings
in the vicinity have demonstrated that
at this depth the ore comes into sold
formation and attains it's richness. This
was true in the Boston shaft of the
Quartette company. AS yet but little
water has been encountered in the Mi
das, but the workings show strong in
dications of a good 1low, and another
so feet of sinking will in all likelihood
tap a ledge dipping from the east and
at the same time supply the mine
with plenty of water.
Development at the Stanley Forbes
Extension, which is Il new corporation
formed to work the east extension Of
the now big ore producer, continues to
show rich surface ores. A large force
of men has been employed three weeks
now trenching and searching for the
best point at which to send down a
shaft and this matter has been finally
settled at point where the ledge
shows an abundance of free gold from
the grass roots. There are five claims
in this group, and on every one of them
are traceable strong lodges. When the
Stanley Forbes was started it could
show but moderate values from the
surface, and it required an approximate
depth of 200 feet to come into the main
ore body. On the Extension the vein
outcrops many times larger than the
original and carries as good values at
surface as the original had at $50 feet.
The corporation is a strong one, Joseph
Macarthur, president of the Stanley
Forbes, holding the vice presidency, and
practically directing affairs. Col. M.
R. Meyer is president, j. j. Tyndal
secretary, the board of directors in
Guiding beside the above Len j. Kiser
Of Searchlight. Another shipper will
doubtless be blown in at Fourth of
July mountain in the near future.
The Shaft on the Searchlight Bell is
now cutting a fine body of quartz.
which pans a long string of colors. This
new body of mineral is larger than the
stringers cut above, and is supposed
to be the forerunner to the main ore
shoot. The company is waiting for the
arrival of it's big plant of machinery,
when work will proceed with greater
dispatch.