The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-10-19

Just below and adjoining Iie A"lO-
man on the north is the
Joanna NINE,
Whose rich ore attracted so much at
tention about three years ago. tbs
seDarated 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 aud 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
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-tive feet to the north. Several cross nts
were made at different places, all of ich
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. A great many
tons of ore were milled from this portion
of the mine with fair results. From
statment of facts regarding the Joanna
nine 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 eonstructed ana the only appn-
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 tailin9s. APPROX
mately seven dollars ton was saved Dy
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
d 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 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 "a. 10 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, now
ever have shown more than fifteen thou
sand TONS OF tne average yaltt ~ oa Sia,oo pe PEI
ton me gora IL areo o' N an, an the ord
nary plate process for saving the gold.
The Joana mine has been unfortunate, it
hos a., ffered as MANY min 3 have before it.
When the first great strike was made and
IL IroS known + at If was q mine of unusual
marit Iitieatio began which ran through
the courts for q term of several wears at
great expense and annoyance to the owner
| sr,I 4. ~ hn
unfied until the iudpment of the court was
nod nurinp this litigation a number of
mining men visited the Joanna at various
times and made examinations OF the prop
ertv IT is eenerallv believed that the
nrorertv met their eynectations and was
satisfactorv. brt fine INw suits stood in the
| Wv until ali yvrra titof or. rTya s. rot
heep for this IN fGr.u,,..l aitn:r i. .vcu,6
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The day and tfa 'i:t.irt o. Voiir..or
wn,,l5 Ia in oui-, !, di I.~r-7t cr...li :->~
Tho Ioana min * ~ - ~ ~ :, ~
Messrs, HIP. y, rer. "a, aer. 81 u an
jackson. Thes4 ee@ueD., : owN c Eu4n3el
~ mines in the fistr.t4
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Tho rro,,nrtv of Nyoesrx Ostoroerd House.
lawson. Hin apd others ad ioins the 10.
a11a ~, t,,e ,yest g,bnrn hoe bnan oonsid-
orahIa wi 1one Mr. not snffo;ont ~
GnvoIon the vailIe of The cleim In tho
GnannSt yorl,in o. tboV baT-o $500 ,rond orn
the same as the Joana in character Ont
81 nnnohar of +ons raillnd So thi ,,o
ortv 81 nor ron in oo1d I1as sarod WIS Piop
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CHAIRMAN GROUP,
M,
me propeTty Of Messrs. LYONS, McG1ll,
McOm1e and Upderhill, is situatef on Ault-
man NIL, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west ana the Joanna No. on the south
Inc groups composed of five mines, which
are the Grammar chairman Gore, Turkey V
a