The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-03-24

JOANA NINE,
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
| ngs were made. The ledge was stripped
and exposed on the west end of the mine
for II 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 rs the cave, is reached
| through II tunnel sixty feet in length, ut
which point cave was encountered and
| the ore vein was also reached. From this
point an incline forty-iive 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-iye feet to the north. Several erosS-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
works, in which large amount of drifting
and sinking has been done and II 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
|
| Eureka, Nevada, the following quotation
| is made: 1.-The ore was reduced at u 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. ApprOXi-
| 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
n 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 Il 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 $ll5 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, 1t
| mas SuHercu as nldny min y nave before IL.
When the first great strike was made, and
| it was known that it was mine of unusual
merit, litigatio began which ran through
| the courts Tor u 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 Il number of
mining men visited the Joana ut various
| times and made examinations ot 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 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 different condition.
The Joanna mine is now the property OF
Messrs, Hip. Wren, Cheney, sadler and
jackson. These gentlemen own II number
ot mines in the district.
Joanna NO. .,
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 II number of tons milled from this prop
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. on the south
| The groupis 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 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 u distance of 500 feet also, a
| lateral drift has been run to the east 80 feet
| to Wine which extends down to 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 DIT feet. Going back to u 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 Sl1 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 crosScut shows the
ledge to be ~ feet wide. The ore stone
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
II 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
S. 10 gold per ton. Fifty feet further west
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