The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-02-02

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man on the north is the
Joanna NINE,
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 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 ana
the ore vein was also reached. From TINS
point an incline forty-fve 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-five 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 large amouDt Of drifting
and sinking has been done and aquant1ty
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 Joanna
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren OF
| Eureka, Nevada, the following. quotation
| is made: "The ore was reduced at small
ten stamp water mill at the town of Ely,
about three miles from the mine The mill
| is poorly constructed and the only appl1-
ances for saving gold were copper plates.
Less than one-half the gold was saved by
/ fI,io oNdo ~ -iIao
| 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 taiiings, 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 Atty 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
I 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 MINIS have before it.
| When the first great strike was made, an6
| il was known that 1t was mine of unusual
merit, litigation began which ran through
the courts for q term of several years at
| greet expense and annoyance 20 the owner.
| The property was tieo UP and could not be
1 had. During this litigation number of
mining men visited the J0ana 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 low suits stood in the
way until all We're 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 DO in quite different condition.
| the Joana 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. Ostergard House.
Lawson, Hip and Others adjoins the DO
ana on the west There has been consid-
i 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 JOana 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 Underhiil, 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 800 feet from the mouth of
the tunnel, and 1875 from the surface At
the point of intersection made by the tun-
mel and ledge lateral drift has been run
to the west distance of 500 feet; also. d
| lateral drift has been run to the east rs feet
| to Winze which extends down to second
or lower level of the mine, a distance of
l0o feet below the tnnnel o.. first level.
| Thus it 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 ofsixty feet to west in the
drift crosscut has been made to the south,
ana 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 'Chainmau-
mill, which averaged 81 per ton. There is
an opening to the surface a 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
and to the end of the crosscut shows the
ledge to be AZ feet wide. Tho ore stope
extends along the lateral drift to the west,
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