Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-22
SEARCHLIGHT MINES
TO PRODUCE RESULTS
FOUR BIG STRIKES WITHIN a
MONTH
Spokane Property Strong Rival for
the Duplex and the Mighty
Quartet-Silver Legion
Producer

Special to The Herald.
SEARCHLIGHT, New, July N.-A ne"
epoch in the history of Searchlight is at
hand. Four strikes within one month";
all of which are shipping ore, and eacn
within the proved mineral belt, have done
more to attract attention to SearchiignI
than anything heretofore. Searchlight
was going along in her steady produce
tive fashion when the startling news was
echoed of a find of specimen ore run
ming $4,000 per ton on the Duplex mine.
which takes in the original discovery or
ore in this camp. Investigation proved
that the find was even better than re-
ported, and now it is question as TO
which is the greater, the mighty Quar-
tette or the wonderfully rich Duplex.
Following closely on the heels OF the
Duplex sensation came the announce
ment of the uncovering of $500 ore on
the Spokane claim of the Searchhght-
Spokane Mining company WITHIN ten
feet of the old wagon road and having
n we'll traversed trail across the surface,
little attention was paid to it until AS
sistant General Manager Alva Jennings
broke off a small piece of ore from the
surface rock literally alive with free gold
A shaft was Immediately started at this
point and sinking commenced. EVERY
foot of sinking means that 500 worth
of ore is being sacked, and the ore is
sacked Just as it comes out of the work
ings without any sorting whatever
Network of Veins
Four miles southeast of the Spokane
and one mile south of the Quartette Min
ing company's Boston mine on the prop
erty of the Searchlight Comstock Mining
company another sensational strike was
made. Here, situated between the Bos-
ton. Stanley Forbes and Bamberger-
Wheatley mines, the Comstock has
perfect network of veins that are prov
ing to be bonanzas from the surface. AT
a depth of thirty-five feet rich string
er was encountered and the shaft was
sunk down on an incline of siXty-tive de-
grees following the lead. Several other
stringers were encountered and all will
converge into one ore body at depth
of about 100 feet. Free gold was found
all through the ore taken from the first
encountered and the values
found are very uniform, all being around
$1OO per ton. At the present time there
is about eighteen inches of 800 rock in
the bottom of the shaft and sinking has
been discontinued temporarily pending
the installation of a gasoline hoist that
has been ordered by the management.
The Silver Legion is still taking out
ore in the east drift of the S5-foot level
into fancy figures The first
shipment of the ore from these workings
will be made in few days and will con-
sist of twenty-five tons of sorted ore.
Owing to the inflow of water no devel-
oping will be done on the 1S5-foot level
untih pump is installed. General Man
ager II. e. Spanogle is having ground
leveled and surfaced for the hoist, con-
centrator and engines.
Preparing for Development
Pending the arrival of Secretary A. L.
Miller, Superintendent P. Sayles has dis
continued sinking on the Majestic Gold
frog and Gold Beam mines. The man.
agement has outlined an extensive course
Of development and Secretary Hitler will
arrive ahead of the machinery and take
active charge for some time after the
These properties are very
delphia-Searchlight and the Cornucopia
mines and the showings in the two deep
est shafts are extremely pleasing to the
owners. On the Majestic Goldfrog some
excellent ore was encountered at depth
Of seventy feet, and from that point
down the values are gradually increasing.
At water level three parallel leads that
traverse the property north and west
are expected to converge in one immense
ore body.
General Manager L. J. Kaiser is re-
ceiving bids for a shaft to water level
on the Stanley Forbes extension. This
has the southern extension of
The vein that enriches the Stanley Forbes
and from the present workings some ex-
oellent copper stained quartz has been
exposed to view. A vertical shaft is to
be sunk to water level on the Nevada
Girl claim from the summit of the peak
md from which a downhill drive can be
had 6iraot IN Saarnh1ioht