| Show NEW LEDGE IN SIERRA BUTTES messenger lessenger A downieville Downie ville calif A new ledge has been found in th the sierra buttes mine at sierra city and from f all indications the late strike will make a new mine of the old butte all kinds of rumors have been flying around but the following is authentic the sierra buttes I 1 company has been running a crosscut cross cut from I 1 the no 6 tunel bunel into the hanging wall of I 1 the buttes ledge for several months past to cut the ledge that was known to exist in that direction this vein has been found and is now being drifted on the ledge is six feet wide between the walls and contains gold and that a pay shoot will be struck by arif drifting ting on the ledge is a certainty there is 1100 feet of backs from where the ledge was found to the surface and this alone will practically make a new property of the oldest quartz mine in sierra county and the second oldest in the state the sierra buttes was located in the fall of 1850 and was being worked by ar rastas in 1851 the first locators were italians whose names are not known but a few years afterward ferdinand and gustavus reis parish said and a number of others became interested the parties sold to the sierra buttes gold mining company a london company who also owned the plumas eureka in johnsville Johns ville in 1870 i the buttes property alone bringing over a million dollars the Eja english glish company after running the mine at a great profit for many years sold to the hayes brothers of san jose who are operating at this time the mine is fully equipped with quartz mills cyanide plant etc and has all kinds of water power of its own J E westall is superintendent for the hayes brothers and richard thomas is foreman |
