Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-03
ELECTRIC POWER
INVITES CAPITAL
SEARCHLIGHT DISTRICT Of
FERS BIG PROPOSITION
Mine Operators Want Electricity to
Run Machinery in the Great Camp.
Colorado River Water Power
Is Available

is now awaiting some energetic pro-
moter' or financier an opportunity for
enterprise that offers as much induce
ment as the mineral resources of
Searchlight and it's adjacent camps
This opportunity is contained in the
power facilities offered by the Colorado
river, which can be made to generate
electricity at a cost that defies compe-
tition by concerns obliged to use fuel
for that purpose.
When one analyzes the vast oppor-
tunity for utilizing electricity in con-
nection with the mining industry sur
prise is occasioned that some one has
not appropriated the field.
That electricity must eventually play
an important part in the development
of this district is very apparent when
the fuel question is considered. It's
adaptability to mining has been DEM
onstrated time and again, and in a
country where nothing save gasoline
power can be utilized it will be readily
seen that with tine power close at hand
the cost of appropriating 1t reduced
to the minimum, and large field now
ripe for it's utility the opportunity can
not long be overlooked.
At the rate properties are becoming
shipping mines requiring both light and
power the demand for electricity with
nous. The ease with which it can be
wired from the power house to the
mining camps makes it readily accept
able, and saves the heavy cost of dis
tillate and gasoline fuel, not to mention
the haulage from railroad transporta-
ton.
Assurance of Profit
Being located near Eldorado canyon,
in fact within five miles of the scene
of mining activity, that camp alone
would utilize this power to an extent
sufficient to make it a paying propo-
sition. Added to this is Nob-~Iill, five
miles nearer Searchlight, with the ter
ritory between fast being opened by
prospectors. Leaving Mob Hill the next
place of consumption would be in the
vicinity of St. Louis mountain, where
from three to five big properties are
Just now preparing for extensive de-
velopment. A few miles further south
and the McGhan camp will furnish
another feeder to such an enterprise,
finally bringing the fluid into Search
light, thence sixteen miles to Camp
Thurman, and also extending eastward
across the Flat" taking in number
Of large mines, and finally tapping
Crescent, Nipton and Leastalk. In fact
power can be generated at Eldorado
canyon sufficient to supply the whole
of southern Nevada.
Not only does this great opportunity
appeal from a mining power standpoint
but taking the location of Searchlight,
which Is the natural supply point for
territory extending twenty-five miles
east, west and north, electric tra---por-
tation would not only be the means of
opening up more properties but would
furnish the only kind of transportation
feasible in a hilly country. In con-
nc
in almost every instance there would
be no obstacles to surmount as regards
the topography of the country. In
either of the directions mentioned the
road would extend along level val
ley, only encountering hills when with
in few miles of the mines.
Estimates on the cost Of road con-
struction show that electric lines could
be put in at about the same cost as
line minus the cost of right of way,
which would be free here.
Big Field for Traffic
While the freight and ore tonnage
at the present time is not heavy as
compared with that between Search
light and the outside world transporta-
tions would permit no less than 300
prospects to ship ore. thus making a
field for other traffic and commerce.
By the time these roads wero complet-
ed there would be sufficient tonnage and
passenger traffic to place them on a
paying basis.
Sooner or later some one, seeing this
great opportunity for investment, will
take cognizance of it's feasibility and
grasp it while conditions warrant every
feature of economy being pract1ced.
Important Mining Deal
The newest big mining deal to be
consummated in the Eldorado canyon
district is the formation of the Edo
RADIO Empire Mining company, with
capitalization of $1,000,000, divided into
100000 shares of the par value of 81.
OF this 100000 shares are offered.
The company owns the extension OF
the famous Wall Street mine where
millions were taken out years ago from
surface Slopes. The big vein of the
Wall Street has been opened on the
Blackhawk and traced in this property
for a distance of 450 feet. The vein
is thirty feet wide and shows values
from S4 to $500 per ton in free gold.
A shaft eighty five feet deep has been
sunk on the vein and a drift is now
being run in seven feet of ore on which
the lowest assay showed $40 and the
highest $500 per ton. f;amples from the
workings show a large body of 5000
rock.
The property bears every earmark
of the Wall Street, even to the crop
pings, which show a good value in
gold 1t was on the groupings that
the WaH Street began it's first ore pro-
duction and as is we'll known to every
one in the district the stopping started
from the surface presents today one of
the curiosities of mining in Nevada.
In all $7,0o0,0O0 was taken from these
excavations, which extend eighty-five
feet into the earth on an incline of
about forty-five degrees and in which
the large pillars of ore left standing
to support the roof give the appearance
of the home of the cliff dwellers.
The main shaft of the Eldorado En-
pire is but a few hundred feet from
the treasure house of the Wall Street
and the property bids fair to produce
equally with its older neighbor.
Using First Gasoline Hoist
At present the Eldorado Empire is
equipped with the first gasoline hoist
introduced into the district, and has
developed sufficient water to operate a
five-stamp MILL A mill site has been
for and the mill will be erect