The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-05-11

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
! aud 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 u cave was encountered aud
! the ore vein was also reached. From this
| point an incline forty-iye feet in depth
| was sunk. At the bottom of the incline Il
drift was driven one hundred and twenty
| five feet to the east, and also another thir-
| ty-fiVe feet to the north. Several crOSS-cOJS
| 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 quantity
| of good ore WAS exposed. A great many
|
! of the mine with fair results From 81
statment of facts regarding the Joana
mine, prepared by the Hon. Thos. Wren of
| Eureka, Nevada, the folio wing quotation
! is made: 1.-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 appli-
ances for saving gold were copper plates
Less than onehalf 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
| tAis process, as shown by the returns bv
| Watson under oath to the assessor Of White
| Piae county, for the purpose OF taxation
! This would give, adding the gold lost in
| the tailings an average of fourteen dollars
/ 81 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 III the Office OF the
! ass $50 OF White Pine county" Some dis
| lance fur her to the west there is a tunnel
one hundred and fifty feet in lenRth that
| cross-cuts the ledge. The whole length of
ago this tunnel was sampled in sections by
an experienced sampler, the average Of the
different samples taken giving S415 III gold
There have been various estimates Of the
amount Of ore in SIGHT. Ii would he diff
cult indeed for all estimates to be made
with any degree of accuracy. Some, how
ever, have shoJn more tnan fifteen thou
| sand tons of the average value Of $3.50 per
| 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 min $ hive before it.
| When the first great strike WAS made, and
| ii was known that II was IL mine of unusual
IN. rit, litipatio began which ran through
the conrts for a term of several years at
great expense and anaoyauc: 20 the owner
| TIE property was tied up AMI could rot 30
united u,itii the judpment Of the court was
had. Dur'nr this LITIGATION " nun Der of
mining men visited tie Joanna at various
| times and made examinations o. the prop
erty. 1t Il generally believed mat the
property met their expectations and WAS
| satisfactory; but the law Suits stood in IN =
way uutil all were tired ont. Had il NJ t
been Gpr this unfortunate affair it would,
no doubt, be one Of the large producers al
The daT, and the district of Robinson
would lJo in quite different condition.
The JGa1a mine is ROW the property ci
Messre, Hip, Wren, Cheney, s9d!er aud
jackson, These gentlemen own a number
o mines in The district
Joanna No. .,
The property OF Iessrs Ostergard House.
Lawson, Hip and others, adjoins the DO
ana On ghe west. There has been cOusid-
orGtte 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 number OF tons milled from this prop
erty 81 per ton i'll gold was saved.
| CHAIRMAN GROUP
The property Of Messrs. LYONS. McGu
McOnie and Underhill, is situate on Ault-
man hill, adjoining the Aultman mine on
the west and the Joanna No. on the south
The group is composed of five mines which
are the Chairman chairman Gore ,Turke7 V
Southern Cross-all adjacent to other The
development work upon the group is IN ost-
| ly done upon the Chairman and Chairman
Gore mines. The entrance to the mine is
through large tunnel, which taps the
ledge at a point 900 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 a distance Of 800 feet; also, q
lateral drift has been run to the east 70 feet
to Wine which extends down to second
or lower level of the mine q distance OF
LOO feet below the tnnnel or first level
Thus 1t will be seen the total depth at this
point is DOT feet. Going back to a point
| where the lateral drift vest leaves the
tunnel IL distance ofsixty 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 81 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
i way. On the opposite side Of the drift
there is crosscut to the north The dis
lance taken from the back of the stope
ledge to be ~ 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
| entirely across the ledge. An average gives
Sc 30 gold per ton. Fifty feet further west