Political Quotes

“that was a huge amount of money in 1905. Before the end of the same year, the mine would have produced more than $1 million, a huge sum of money for just after the turn of the century. In August 1905, 325 men were employed in the mines in Searchlight, this figure did not include the many supporting workers such as teamsters, millers, and the businesses that supported the town and the mine workers. Seventy-five of these men were employed in assessment work and by contract--that is, they were not employed for wages as other miners were. By far the largest employer in the county was the Quartette Company. As late as 1908 there were those who wrote that because gold was still present at depths of nearly 1,000 feet, the mine would have a virtually inexhaustible supply of good ore. About the same time that the Quartette's river mill began operating with ore supplied by the company's own railroad, water was hit at the mine. In fact, one of the interesting phenomena in the Searchlight area was that some of the mines hit water at relatively shallow depths. The Santa Fe, located about a mile and a half from the Quartette, found water at less than a hundred feet. The Quartette didn't hit water until about the 500-foot level.”