The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-02-17

man on the north is the
Joanna MINE,
Whose rich ore attracted so much at
tention about three years ago. It is
separated from the Aultman 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 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 tunnel sixty feet in length, at
which point cave was encountered and
| the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline fOrty-tiye 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-euts
| we're made at different places all of which
are in ore of good grade. To the west of
| the work in the cave are other extensive
| works, in which a large amount of drifting
and sinking has been done and a quantity
| OF good ore was exposed A great many
of the mine with fair results. From a
statment of facts regarding the Joana
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos Wren of
Eureka, Nevada, the following quotation
! is made 1.-The ore was reduced at d 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-half the gold was saved by
| this mode of working, as was shown by
| constant assays of the tailings. APPROX
mately seven dollars ton was saved by
| this process, as shown by the returns by
| Watson under oath to the assessor OF White
| Pine county, Tor the purpose OF taxation
| This would give, adding the gold lost in
| the tailings an average of fourteen dollars
a 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
! assessor 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 in sections by
| an experienced sampler, the average of the
| different samples taken giving $415 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.A Some, how
| ever, have shown more than fifteen thou
| sand tons of the average value of $3.50 per
ton. The gold is free bnt the clay and
| oxide of iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate process for saving the gold.
| The Joana mine has been unfortunate, it
| has suffered as many min IS have before it.
| When the first great strike was made, and
| it was known that it was mine OF unuSu al
merit, litigation 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 d number of
| mining men visited the Joanna at various
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 all were tired out. Had 1T not
| been for this unfortunate affair 1t would,
no doubt, be one of the large producers of
the day. and the district of Robinson
would be in quite different condition.
The Joana mine is now the property of
Messrs, Hip, Wren, Cheney Sadler and
jackson. These gentlemen own a number
O.; mines in the district.
Joanna NO. 2,
| The property of Messrs. Disregard, House.
| Lawson, Hip and others, adjoins the Jo-
ana 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 Joanna in character. Out
of a number of tons milled from this prop
erty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
| CHAIRMAN GROUP,
The property of Messrs. Lyons, McGill,
| McOmie and Underhill is situated on Ault-
man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
| the west and the Joanna No 2 ON the south
The group is composed of five mines which
| are the Chairman Chairman Gore, Turkey V
Southern Cross-all adjacent to other The
| development work upon the group is most
ly done upon the Chairman and Chairman
| Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
through i 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 lateral drift has been run
| to the west a distance of 500 feet; also, a
| lateral drift has been run to the east rs feet
| to Wine which extends down to a second
| or lower level of the mine, a distance of
| 100 feet below the tnnnel or first level.
Thus it will be seen the total depth at this
| point is 227 feet. Going back to a point
| where the lateral drift west leaves the
tunnel distance of sixty feet to west in the
drift crosscut has been made to the south,
and an Openins 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
stope to the south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged $11 per ton. There is
an opening to the surface 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 crosscut to the north. The dis
lance taken from the back of the stope
ledge to be AZ feet wide. The ore slope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
a distance of fifty feet to another crosscut
to the north, and shows the ledge to be