Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-31
ALLEGHANY DISTRICT
AGAIN FORCES AHEAD
RICH GOLD STRIKES REVIVE
OLD CAMPS
Three Glasses of Ore Occur, Namely,
High Grade, Low Grade, and
Hight Grade Ore
Shoots

The recent discoveries of high grade
ore in the Allegheny district of Sierra
county have once more brought to the
front a section which has in the past
furnished materials for many a mining
excitement. There are three classes of
ore bodies in this county which should
be borne in mind to thoroughly under
stand the reports which have lately
been circulated.
There are a number of large low
grade mines, the ore aSsaying from
$3.50 to So ton, which occasionally
shoots of very high grade ore. These
mines, among which the most able
is the Sierra ButteS, have been working
profitably for from thirty to fifty years.
Owing to the abundance of water power
and other favorable conditions ore can
be mined and milled at a cost of 50
a ton.
The second group, of which the
Bonanza King, owned by e. H. Wilson,
is an example, are neither large low
grade propositions nor shoots of very
rich ore, but are distinguished by the
presence of tellurides and arsenical sui
phurets which make an average ore of
very high grade. For instance the
Bonanza King is said to be an average
of two feet in width and assay 500 a
ton. There is some free gold found in
this ore but the principal values are in
the concentrates.
High Grade Ore Shoots
The third group consists of those con-
tanning the high grade ore shoots which
have astonished the mining world. The
lodges in which these shoots are found
are large and we'll defined, but contain
no commercial values except in the
shoots, which are irregular. These ore
bodies. called shoots, are from fifty to
300 feet long and from fifty to 200 feet
deep and about two feet thick Their
average yield is from 100000 to $780,
900. The great richness of the ore is
demonstrated by the fact that in sew
eral instances there have been mill
runs in which a ton of ore produced
800, 900. This, of course, was ore
which had been sorted from fifty to 200
tons. In such quantities no richer ore
has been found elsewhere.
Owing to the difficulty or rather eX-
pense in locating them, the high grade
shoots have by no means been eX-
hausted, as is evidenced by the fact
that within the last six weeks both the
Sixteen to One and the FL Dorado have
opened such choots.
The trustworthy accounts of thsSe
sound almotst incredible. In
the former, with an expenditure of
$500 and under an option for
twelve months at $25, 900, Mr.. Wilson
struck the high grade. In the drift
alone (no stoping) in distance of
twenty-five feet. with a two-foot vein,
he took out ore from which he sorted
little over 1000 pounds, which was taken
by him to Nevada City and found TO
be worth about 100000.
Within the past six weeks he has
taken three such. loads, the combined
value being placed at over 100000 His
total expense, including purchase of
is probably not over $4,000.
In the Ell Dorado it cost H. L. john
son $25, 900 and about two years time
to develop the ore shoot, exclusive of
purchase price, but in one day 1t is re-
ported that he took out $4,000
There are a number of properties in
which such ore shoots will probably be
found. as conditions are similar, and