The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-05-04

Just below and adjoining the Ault-
man on the north is the
JoANA MINE,
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
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
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
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: 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 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. Approx
mately seven dollars a 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 o. taxation.
This would give, adding the gold lost in
the tallings, 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 tunnel
ono hundred and fifty feet in length that
cruss-cuts the ledge. The whole length of
the tunnel is in ledge matter. Some time
ago this tunnel was sampled in sections by
au experienced sampler, the average of the
ditferel 1T samples taken giving S4.1j in pold.
There have been various estimates of the
amount OF ore in sight. 1t would be diff
crlt indeed for all estimates to be mace
with any degree OF accuracy. Some how
ever, have sho.yn more than fifteen thou
sd nd tons of the ayeraPe value OF $3.50 per
ton. The Pold is free tat the clay and
oxide of iron require more than the ordi-
nary plate process for saving the gold.
Tie .lo0na mine has been unfortunate it
has 81 ifered as many min $ have before it,
When the first great strike was made, and
| il was known that 1t was mine OF unusual
yit. litiFatio began which ran through
| the courts for q term of several years at
great expense and annoyauc' 10 the owner.
| Tb" property was tied up a:ld could not be
| united until the JUDGMENT of the court was
| had. Dnrnp this litigation number Of
| mining men ,isited the Jonna ut various
| times aud made examinations o. the prop
erty. 1t is general? believed that til"
property met their cxpecta tons and was
| satisfactory; but the law suits stood in tbs.
| WHY until all w-re tired ont. HID it not
| been for this unfortunate nifAir it would,
no doubt, he ona of the large producers of
ne day, and the district OF Robinson
would DO in quite a different condition.
'ihe .oaua niue Is now the property o.
.Iacksnn. These gentlemen own number
o mines in the district.
JOANNA NO. .,
! TIL" property of ATessrs Ostergnrd, House
| Lawson, Hip and others, adjoins the DO
aus 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, McGill,
| NcOmie and Underhill is situated on Ault-
imam hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west and the Joanna No. 2 on the south
| The PrOupis 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 l25 from the surface. At
the point OF intersection made by the tun-
| mel and ledge n lateral drift has been run
| to the west distance Of 500 feet also, a
| lateral drift has been run to the east 70 feet
to Wine 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 "est leaves the
tunnel Il distance ofsixty feet to west in tn e
drift crosscut has been made to the south
and an opening to the north at the same
| point which shows the ledge at this poiut
| 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 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 Slope
and to the end of the cross ut 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
to the north, and shows the ledge to be
twenty-four feet wide. The crosscut is not