Mohave County miner., 1913-08-23
News from SearchIieht.
Special correspondence.
Searchlight, Nevada, Aug. 20, 19

| severe loss through the burning down of its 4O-stamp mill, electric and engine plant at two o'clock this morn- ing.
 The flames were discovered by the night watchman who was in the mill at the time but spread with such rapidity that the entire plant was in ruins within 20 minutes.
 | Hard work on the part of the miners was all that saved the assay office, sta bles and outside buildings from the roaring flames. Timbers supporting several large cyanide tanks. close to the mill, were partly burnt away, causing one of the largest tanks to topple over and weakening the sup ports of the others.
 The mill was shutdown at noon yesterday to cleanup and the engine and millrooms were thoroughly over- haulel. Every precaution was taken to prevent such catastrophe as has happened. There was no waste or in- aammable materials lying around and a watch placed on the plant.
 The loss is l00,OO0$ with only a nomin insurance. The cause of the fire is unknown. Mr. Jones, general manager and one of the principal own. CTS of the Quartette stated that the mill will be rebuilt at once and in the meantime the ores will be handled at he Cyrus Noble mill.
 Since the announcement of the erec- tion to be of a reduction plant to handle custom ores of the Mob Hill district, there has been quite spirit of activity throughout the section. Properties that have lain idle for sometime are now being thoroughly sampled to ascertain what proportion of the ores will pay to handle. Here- tofore the output from this section has been shipped to ,he smelters at a cost averaging l2S per ton for freighting and railroad charges and when the smelter and mining costs were added, it was case eff extremely close sort ing of the ores before any attempt could be made at marketing the mine product. With a custom plant within short wagon haul, there is decided tendency amongst the mine operators to reopen the properties,
 Following the recent visit of M. l.. Cook, M. E., owner of the Silver Legion and Combination mines, contracts have been let for development work on both properties. The Silver Legion n ne is to be unwatered and the shaft retimbered below the water level. Upon the completion of this work, sinking will be resumed and ateraIs ran on the vein on the 200.foot level. This property is one of the most promising in the district having all ready produced l5O,0OO$ from the sur face and the present showing is suf- ticient to warrant extensive develop ment at depth.
 A sampling of the ore on the dump of the Com blnation mine, shows an average of IFS for over 4.OOO tons. quite small mine in itself. This ore was extracted during the early de- velopment of this property when the value of the marketable ore had to run several hundred dollars before it could be handled. The shaft has been sunk in the vein to depth of ll5 feet. with the ore exposed on both sides all the way down. The vein faulted to the south at the bottom and was pick ed up again in a crosscut. A singular feature shown in the recovery of the lost vein was the change from silver to gold in the content of the ore.
 A strike was recently mace by John s. Sartain and A. J. Pesk on the Gold en Empire property, resulted in the opening up of a shoot of shipping ore close to the grass roots. The find was made on the North vein and the ore, which is an oxdized quartz carried excellent gold values.
 A deal is on tapis for the Wander. ing Jew group, lying south of the Mispah mine. The main vein on this property is 450O feet in length and in places 100 feet in width. The develop. ment to date has only been cursory