The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-06-02


Just below and adjoining the Ault-
man on the north is the
JoANA NINE,
Whose rich ore attracted SO much at
tention about three years ago. It 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 end of the mine
for a 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-five 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 are other extensive
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
statment of facts regarding the Joana
mine. prepared by the Hon. Thos Wren of
Eureka, Nevada, the following. quotation
is made: "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
for saving gold n1QtpS
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, 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
assessor of White Pine county" Some dis
lance further to the west there is a 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 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 Joanna mine has been unfortunate it
has suffered as many mines have before it.
When the first great strike was made, and
it was known that it was mine of unusual
merit, litigation began which ran through
the courts for a term of several years at
great expense and annoyance to the owner.
The property was tied up and could not be
had. During this litigation number of
mining men visited the JOana at various
times and made examinations OF the prop
erty. 1t is generally believed that the
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 different condition.
The Joanna mine is now the property of
Messrs, Hip, Wren, Cheney, Sadler and
jackson. These gentlemen own number
of 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
deepest working they have some good ore,
the same as the Joanna 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, 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
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 1875 from the surface At
the point of intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge laseral drift has been run
to the west distance of 800 feet; also, a
lateral drift has been run to the east rs feet
to winze which extends down to a second
or lower level of the mine, 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 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 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 $11 per ton. There is
an opening to the surface distance of
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 crosscut shows the
ledge to be AZ feet wide. The ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west.
a distance of fifty feet to another crosscut