The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-12-15

Joanna MINE,
Whose rich ore attracted SO much at
tention about three years ago. 1t is
separated from the Auitman by a
small porphyry dyke. The late A.
R. Watson was the original locator,
and through his energy the mine was
opened and developed. While Mr..
Watson operated the mine about fifteen
hundred feet of tunnels, drifts and open
| ings were made. The ledge was stripped
and exposed on the west end OF the mine
for q distance of three hundred feet which
showed the ledge to be very large. One of
| the principal openings, the one leading to
what is known as the cave, is reached
| through q tunnel sixty feet in length at
which point cave was encountered and
| the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-fve feet in depth
| was sunk. At the bottom OF the incline
| drift was driven one hundred and twenty
| five feet to the east, and also another thir-
| ty-five feet to the north. Several cross-cuts
were made at different places, all of which
are in ore of good grade To the west of
the work in the cave ar other extensive
| works, in which large amount OF drifting
and sinking has been done and quantity
! of good ore was exposed. great many
tons of ore were milled from this portion
of the mine with fair results From 3
|
mine, prepared by the Hon Thos. Wren of
! Eureka, Nevada, the following quotation
| is made: 1.-THE ore was reduced at q small
| ten stamp water mill at the town of Ely,
| about three miles from the mine. The mill
! is poorly constructed and the only appli-
| ances for saving gold were copper plates.
| Less than one-haif the gold was saved by
| this mode of working, as was shown by
| constant assays Of the tailings. Appr0Xi-
mately seven dollars a ton was saved by
| this process, as shown by the returns bv
Watson under oath to the assessor OF White
| Pine county, for the purpose o. t2Xation.
| This would give, adding the gold lost in
| the tailingS, an average OF fourteen dollars
ton in the ore worked. The amount tax
| en- out in the aggregate was something
| over fifteen thousand dollars. The exact
figures are on record in the office OF the
| assess0" of White Pine county," Some dis
lance further to the west there is tunnel
one hundred and fifty feet in length that
cross-cuts the ledge. The whole length of
the tunnel is in ledge matter. Some time
ago this tunnel was sampled i'll sections by
an experienced sampler, the average of the
different samples taken giving $4.15 in gold
There have been various estimates OF the
amount of ore in sight 1t would be diff
cult indeed for all estimates to be made
with any degree of accuracy. Some, how
ever, have shown more than fifteen thou
sand tons of the average value of $3.50 per
ton. The gold is free but the clay and
oxide Of iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate procesS for saving the gold.
The Joanna mine has Been unfortunate, it
has suffered as many min have before it.
When the first great strike was made, and
ii was known that it was u mine of unusual
merit, litiPatio began which ran through
the courts for term of several years at
great expense and annoyance to the owner
The property was tied up and could not be
united until the JUDGMENT Of the court was
had. During this litigation a number OF
mining men visited the Joanna at yarious
times and made examinations of the prop
erty. 1t is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and Was
! satisfactory; but the law suits stood in the
way until oil were tired out. Had it not
been for this unfortunate affair it would,
no doubt, be one OF the large producers OF
The DAY, and the district OF Robinson
would be in quite a different condition.
The Joanna mine is now the property Of
Messrs, Hip, Wren, Cheney, Sadler and
Jackson These gentlemen own number
o; mines in the district
Joanna NO. .,
| The property of Messrs Ostergard, House
Lawson, Hip and others, adjoius the DO
ans on the west. There has been consid-
cradle work done, but not sufficient to
develop the value of the claim. In the
| deepest working they have some good ore,
| the same as the Joana in character. Out
of number Of tons milled from this prop
| erty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
| The property of Messrs Lyons, MeGiu.
McOmie and Underhill, is situated on Ault-
man hill, adjoining the Aultlnan mine on
| the west and the Joana No. on the south
| The group is composed of five mines, which
are the Chairman chairman core, Turkey
Southern Cross-all adjacentto other. The
| development work upon the group is most
| ~ done upon the chairman and chairman
| Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
through large tunnel, which taps the
ledge at a point 500 feet from the mouth of
the tunnel, and 125 from the surface. At
the point OF intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge 81 lateral drift has been run
to the west a distance of 800 feet; also, a
lateral drift has been run to the east rs feet
to q Wine which extends down to q second
or lower level Of the mine, u distance of
100 feet below the tnnDel or first level
Thus it will be seen the total depth at this
point is OPT feet. Going back to d point
where the lateral drift vest leaves the
tunnel distance ofsixty feet to west in the
and an opening to the north at the same
point, which shows the ledge at this point
to be thirty feet wide. Forty feet further
to the west, in the lateral drift, there is a
Slope to the south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged $ll per ton. There is
an opening to the surface II distance of
something more than 100 feet through the
roof OF the stope, which is in ore all the
way. On the opposite side Of the drift
there is a crOsscut to the north. The dis
lance taken from the back of the Stope
and to the end OF the crosstut shows the
ledge to be ~ feet wide. Tho ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west.
distance of fifty feet to another crosscut
to the north, and shows the ledge to be
tWenty-four feet wide. The crosScut is not
entirely across the ledge. An average gives