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Then, only some twelve miles to the south was Oro Grande, another camp connected to Elk City by regular stage service. Oro Grande bloomed quite for a while due to the ambitious efforts of a company to extract gold from a "dyke", or heterogeneous large body of low grade ore. The development of the mine by "glory-hole" methods and the installation of a 20 stamp mill provided employment and excitement for a lively camp for some time. But apparently the low grade ore was too low grade for profitable operation, so, after a good trial run, the mill was closed down, the bloom faded, and the town simmered down to a few hopeful souls, still sure in their own minds that capital would again come back to take the gold from the mountain. |
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