Quartette Mining Company - Revision history

John Hall at 20:53, 16 July 2021

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Andrew Brandon at 16:50, 7 June 2021

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	Compiled by [[User:Randy Hees\|Randy Hees]].		Compiled by [[User:Randy Hees\|Randy Hees]].

			====Freight Equipment====

	'''Notes'''<br />		'''Notes'''<br />
	Photos show 4 wheel square bodied cars. Some were reportedly found in the area as late as 1963.<br />		Photos show 4 wheel square bodied cars. Some were reportedly found in the area as late as 1963.<br />

	[[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_Nevada\|Nevada]] / [[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_Nevada#Mining\|Mining]] / [[Quartette Mining Company]]		[[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_Nevada\|Nevada]] / [[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_Nevada#Mining\|Mining]] / [[Quartette Mining Company]]

Andrew Brandon: Migrated locomotive roster to standard table format.

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 ===Equipment Roster===
-No 1, 0-6-2t Porter 2423 Oct. 1901, class 2-C-S, 10x14.<br />
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-This locomotive may have been sold to Yellow Pine Mining along with the rails in 1910.<br /><br />
+{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
 '''Notes'''<br />

Randy Hees: correcting history of locomotive 2

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	This locomotive may have been sold to Yellow Pine Mining along with the rails in 1910.<br /><br />		This locomotive may have been sold to Yellow Pine Mining along with the rails in 1910.<br /><br />

	No 2(?) 0-8-0t Porter 2685 March 1903 class D-S, 11x14, ~~disposition unknown~~.<br />		No 2(?) 0-8-0t Porter 2685 March 1903 class D-S, 11x14, .<br />
	Sold to Arden Plaster, 1907.<br />		Sold to Arden Plaster, 1907.<br />

Andrew Brandon at 17:41, 18 November 2020

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	===History===		===History===
	Compiled by Randy Hees.		Compiled by Randy Hees.
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	The Quartette Mining Company railroad connected their gold mine near Searchlight Nevada, with its 20 stamp mill on the Colorado River, 16 miles away where there was water available for milling operations. Passengers were reportedly carried from Searchlight to a steamboat landing on the Colorado River.		The Quartette Mining Company railroad connected their gold mine near Searchlight Nevada, with its 20 stamp mill on the Colorado River, 16 miles away where there was water available for milling operations. Passengers were reportedly carried from Searchlight to a steamboat landing on the Colorado River.

Andrew Brandon at 17:40, 18 November 2020

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	===History===		===History===
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	'''Notes'''<br />		'''Notes'''<br />
	Photos show 4 wheel square bodied cars. Some were reportedly found in the area as late as 1963.<br />		Photos show 4 wheel square bodied cars. Some were reportedly found in the area as late as 1963.<br />

			[[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_Nevada\|Nevada]] / [[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_Nevada#Mining\|Mining]] / [[Quartette Mining Company]]

Andrew Brandon: Ported from old format

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===History===
Compiled by Randy Hees.

The Quartette Mining Company railroad connected their gold mine near Searchlight Nevada, with its 20 stamp mill on the Colorado River, 16 miles away where there was water available for milling operations. Passengers were reportedly carried from Searchlight to a steamboat landing on the Colorado River.

Soon after the railroad was completed, the mines hit water, eventually providing sufficient water to allow milling to take place at a new 20 stamp mill, built at the mine site, This lead the company to first abandon the riverside mill (and likely with it the railroad), then the old mill to the mine site as well. By 1906 the railroad was no longer in use.

In 1907 the American Prospecting and Development Company proposed a new project including a riverside smelter, and reactivation and extension of the Quartette railroad, but nothing came to pass. Other proposals included using the rails to build a railroad north to El Dorado Canyon, and over Railroad Pass to Las Vegas after 1905.

The railroad (or possibly only the rails) were sold to J. F. Kent in 1910, and removed for use on Kent’s Yellow Pine Mining Co. railroad. The railroad is also listed among assets sold with the mine and mill by the Mining & Scientific Press in 1913. Rumors suggest at least one locomotive and some cars may have been sold to Arden Plaster Co.

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'''Bibliography'''
Myrick, David F. Railroads Of Nevada and Eastern California: Volume II. Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1962. ISBN 978-0874171938.
Porter Steam Locomotives, Light & Heavy, (NMRA Chattanooga TN, 2001)
John M. Townley, Early Development of EI Dorado Canyon and Searchlight Mining Districts” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Spring 1968, Vol XI No 1.

==Reference Material Available Online==
===Photographs===
Collected Quartette Company Photographs.
Images collected from private collections, libraries and historical societies.

===Equipment Roster===
No 1, 0-6-2t Porter 2423 Oct. 1901, class 2-C-S, 10x14. 
This locomotive may have been sold to Yellow Pine Mining along with the rails in 1910. 

No 2(?) 0-8-0t Porter 2685 March 1903 class D-S, 11x14, disposition unknown. 
Sold to Arden Plaster, 1907. 

'''Notes''' 
Photos show 4 wheel square bodied cars. Some were reportedly found in the area as late as 1963.