Shelley... MOTHER LODE…The Story of California’s Gold Rush by Louis J. Stellman written 1934. Allegheny "In Sierra County are still to be found-though not on the main-traveled routes-a few of those terrifying mountain roads on one side of which rises a perpendicular wall of granite while on the other yawns a precipitous, sheer descent of perhaps a thousand feet. On one of these-that which leads to Allegheny, I believe-the classic episode of Bill Liddle, Kate the Mule, and Alcalde John Spruce occurred in 1949." "Among the new and prospective gold fields are important discoveries along the Klamath River in the far northern part of the state and many rich mines in the area east of Nevada City never before considered in the ore zone; also fresh finds in La Porte, Allegheny and the Downieville sector." "In the wild mountainous region near Downieville, where Allegheny is located, extraordinarily rich ore has been opened up. The Sixteen-to-One mine is down three thousand feet and the vein is yeilding values as high as $2000 to the ton. From a few square feet $100,000 was taken." (The reference to the mine was not on the page the index indicated. Glad I found it here.) Jackie in California [email protected]