"I didn't drive over six hundred miles to discover yet another MIA. And I didn't. Whether I like it or not, #116 is removed from its highway location, but at least I've found it. Driving such a long way wasn't all in vain. Clark is looking closer and closer to a final conquering." -- March 2009

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Along US 95, 0.3 miles north of SR 164 -- Searchlight Las Vegas & Clark County   35.468339, -114.922559

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Original Date Visited: 3/15/09
Revisited: 3/22/22
Signed: Southbound lane of US 95. This is one of the few Clark County markers that is signed.

One of the very few historic marker road signs in Clark County.

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Street View

Here's what you'll see!

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It was approaching 110 degrees F in this photo.   Marker 116 and its massive view of Creosote desert Little Marker 116 was recently upgraded for Nevada's sesquicentennial celebration in 2015

Exact Description:
Initial discoveries of predominately gold ore were first made at this location on May 6, 1897. G. F. Colton filed the first claim, later to become the Duplex Mine.

The Quartette Mining Company, formed in 1900, became the mainstay of the Searchlight District, producing almost half of the area's total output. In May, 1902, a 16-mile narrow-gauge railroad was built down the hill to the company's mill on the Colorado River.

Searchlight began to boom in 1902 and reached its peak year in 1907. Up to 1940 total production amounted to $4.5 million.

On March 31, 1907, the 23.22-mile Barnwell and Searchlight Railroad connected the town with the then main Santa Fe line from Needles to Mojave.

By 1919 trains were operating over the B and S Railroad only twice a week. A severe washout on September 23, 1923, halted traffic completely. Train service was never restored.

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A Drive Through Searchlight>

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 COVERED IN US 95 ROAD TRIP

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