Show NO OCCASION FOR FORA A STAMPEDE INTO INT HIGH GRADE CAMP C The High Grade district In northern California l wh which h recently has hu come into Int some prominence has his been Investigated by a mining g engineer who reports an as al follows follows follows fol fol- fol- fol lows In the Engineering and Ming Mining Journal Joura ri fu There IB Is a ning excitement or stampede sm- sm stam atam- pede as u It Is II called cle to the High Grade Grae district in Modoc county Cal The dietrict distrct district dis die has hu been by some lomo compared favorably favorably favorably favor favor- ably with Cripple Creek but so s far tar neither nor rock has haa ha been ben to round found u nd The country rock Is II a an- an a- a delte the vein matter mater being ven and rhyolite The veins aro are from a 1 few inches to many fw value alue from feet teet In width varying In thousands to the ton In the narrow veins to an average of or say 12 In tho the veins about four feet wide The district has ha been en thoroughly prospected prospected pros pros- distrct on the surface and at I least st four properties have lurace been bee developed for tOr a afe afew afew fe few hundred feet teet underground There is 18 nothing nothing to get got excited about nor Is there any occasion for tor a stampede or ora ora a a. a boom bom In the district This mineral ar area was wu last year known ns as the Hogue district but has been re rename renamed re re- named this Hoge year tho the High Grade district name by some adventurous spirits who will wU no doubt endeavor to be on the top of the rush rth Snow covers the ground gund from No November ro- ro O vember to June often twenty feet deep New NeW Pine Creek Creel oren 1 Is I. the nearest railroad station on the Nevada California i Oregon which makes make connection at Reno I with the Southern Pacific The district Is II In the northeast ex extremity ax- ax e- e of California some of ot It I Is Is Intact In fact tact In I Oregon That Tha the te district distrct may produce a few fe good mines is not Improbable able but this goo ground gound Is taken up by pr organized anle companies companie The Tho Fort For Bidwell Consolidated Mines company has hu a ten stamp ten stamp mill mi and an en In aerial aeral tramway A mill ml was wan wal erected on the Fort Fart side of ot tho the mountain mountains moun moun- tame tain two years er Bidwel ago go but has hs never neer turned a wheel wheel There has ha been no ore for tor It to run on Th Big BI Four mine erected erece a mill mi last lat year yr but winter came on before it I was wan started The mine Is I. reported to be able to supply a a. large lare quantity of or low grade ore with wih the chances of ot high grade streaks The Sunshine Sunshine Sun Sun- shine mine shows haw gae a naro narrow narrow- vein of ot high grade Rae ore from which the owners have been getting out ot enough for a shipment The district may be summed up thus Narrow rich veins not lumme very ver numerous and bodies boie of ot low grade material matia not sufficiently out suf developed ge to prove their worth as a mining assets |