The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-09-22

on what is known as Aultman Hill.
Just below and adjoining the Ault-
man on the north is the
Joanna MINE,
Whose rich ore attracted so much at
tention about three years ago. 1t 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 a cave was encountered and
the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-five feet in depth
was sunk. At the bottom of the incline a
drift was driven one hundred and twenty
five feet to the east, and also another thir-
ty-fve feet to the north. Several cross-cnts
were 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 quantity
of good ore was exposed. A great many
tons of ore were milled from this portion
of the mine with fair results. From
statment of facts regarding the Joanna
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren of
Eureka, Nevada, the following quotation
is made: 1.-The ore was reduced at a 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
I ~, half fha NV
this mode of working, as was shown by
constant assays of the tailings. Approx
mately seven dollars a ton was saved by
this process, as shown by the returns by
Watson under oath to the assessor of White
Pine county, for 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 $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 shovn 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 Joanna 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 q mine of unusual
| merit, litigatio.i 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 number of
| mining men visited the Joanna at various
| times and made examinations oe the prop
| erty. It is generally believed that the
| satisfactory; but the law suits stood in the
| way until all were tired out. Had it not
| been for this unfortunate affair it would.
no doubt be one of the large producers of
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 IL number
o. mines in the district.
Joanna NO. 2,
| The property CT Messrs. Disregard, House.
Lawson, Hip and others, adjoius the DO
| 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
erty 81 per ton in gold was saved.
CHAIRMAN GROUP,
| The property of Messrs Lyons, McGiU,
| 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 large tunnel, which taps the
ledge at point 500 feet from the mouth of
| the tunnel, and 125 from the surface. At
the point of intersection made by the tuu-
mel and ledge lateral drift has been run
| to the west u distance of 500 feet also,
| lateral drift has been run to the east IS feet
! to winZe which extends down to a second
| or lower level of the mine, a distance of
100 feet below the tnnnel or first level
| Thus 1T will be seen the total depth at this
point is 227 feet Going back to point
where the lateral drift vest leaves the
| tunnel distance of sixty feet to west in the
drift crosscut has been made to the SOUTH
| 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
stope to the south where some ore has been
extracted and reduced at the Chairman
mill, which averaged 81 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 a crosscut to the north. The dis
lance taken from the back of the Slope
and to the end of the cross .ut shows the
ledge to be az feet wide. The ore stope