The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-11-03

Whose rich ore attracted so much at
tention about three years ago. 1t is
separated from the Aultman by
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 eud of the mine
| for d 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-tive 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 thlr-
| ty-fve feet to the north. Several eross-euts
| 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 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 Il
| statment of facts regarding the Joanna
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren OF
| III, y
| is made: 1.-THE ore was reduced ut 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.
| 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 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 OF taxation.
| 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
assesso" Of White Pine county" Some dis
lance further to the west there is n 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 $l.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 bat 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 il.
When the first great strike was made, and
ii was known thar 1t was mine OF unusual
merit, litigatiO began which ran through
the courts for a term OF several years at
great expense and annoyance 10 the owner
The property WAS tied up and could not be
united until the judpment OF the court was
bad. During this LITIGATION IL number OF
| mininP men Visited the Joanna at various
times aud made eXar1irstions nt tho prop
erty. 1t is generally believed that the
property met their expectations and was
| Ian gGtn
way until all were tired out. Had it not
| been for this unfortunate affair ii would
! no doubt, he oae OF the large producers of
| the day, end the district OF Robinson
| would lie in quite different condition.
The Joanna mine is no" the property OF
| MeserS. Hip, Wren, Cheney, Sadler and
| jackson. These gentlemen own a number
| o mines in the district.
Joanna No. .,
| Thu property Of Messrs Disregard, House.
| Lawson Hip and others, >tdioins the Jo-
| ana on the west There mas 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,
| MeOmie and UDderhill, is situateI 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
| Southern CroSs-all adjacent to other. The
deVelopmt III ~ TX 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 q point 800 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 81 distance Of 500 feet; also, a
lateral drift has beeD run to the east IS feet
to VINE 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 IL point
where the lateral drift vest leaves the
tunnel distance OfsiXty 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
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 Slope
and to the end of the cross nut shows the
ledge to be ~ feet wide. The ore stone
u 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 |
81 80 gold per ton. Fifty feet further west |
i'll the lateral drift another another cross