The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-03-23

on what IL known as Aultman Hill.
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. 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 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
the work in the cave are other extensive
works, in which a 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 a
statment of facts regarding the Joana
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren of
Eureka Nevada, the following quotation
| is made: 1.-THE ore was reduced at q 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.
this mode of working, as was shown by
| constant assays of the tailings. APPROX
| mately seven dollars q 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
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 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 $415 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 but the clay and
| oxide of iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate process for saving the gold.
| The JOana mine has been unfortunate, it
| has suffered as many MINIS have before 1T.
| When the first great strike was made, and
| it was known that it was a mine of unusual
merit, litigation began which ran through
| the courts for 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 number of
mining men visited the Joana at various
! times and made examinations o. 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 1t would,
/ no doubt, be one of the large producers of
the day, and the district of Robinson
would BIO in quite a different condition.
The Joanna mine is now the property of
Messrs, Hip, Wren, Cheney, Sadler and
jackson. These gentlemen own a number
OF mines in the district.
Joanna NO. 2,
The property of Messrs. Ostergard 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 a number of tons milled from this prop
erty "a 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 Joana 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
~ 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 125 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, a
lateral drift has been run to the east rs feet
| to winze which extends down to second
or lower level of the mine, distance of
100 feet below the tnnnel or first level.
Thus 1t will be seen the total depth at this
| where. the lateral drift vest 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
slope 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 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 a 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
1 a on no LOFT drsft 70 \ h.